2nd-2017

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    The Impact of Social Media use on building Brand Awareness with special reference to Sri Lankan Tourist Hotel Sector.
    (Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Ranwala, R.M.N.H.; Perera, G.N.R.
    The tools and strategies for communicating with consumers have changed significantly since the emergence of Internet and with the world-wide penetration of social media. The internet and social media provides a platform for business community to deal with their customers. The purpose of this research study is to identify and critically evaluate the positive relationship between social media usage and the brand awareness with special reference to Sri Lankan Tourist Hotel sector. The researcher has undertaken the study concerning the different functionalities enabled by social media day by day. Both primary and secondary data was collected. The sampling method is convenience sampling and used structured online questionnaire. Collected data was critically analyzed and interpreted using SPSS analysis system. It is identified that the functionalities enabled for customers by social media can be used by organizations to build customer brand awareness towards brands, as the online appearance is much needed in modern marketing environment.
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    The Factors Affecting on Formation Customer Favorable Attitudes on Mobile Banking: with Special Reference to National Development Bank Sri Lanka
    (Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Thushani, P.M.; Perera, G.N.R.
    Providing innovative services is an important factor for the competitiveness in banking sector. National Development Bank’s Mobile banking is such an innovative service. With this mobile banking facility, all National Development banking customers can make day to day banking activities more quickly than traditional banking. Mobile banking service provides mobility, convenience and speed service. The purpose of this research is study on factors influence on formation of customer favorable attitudes on Mobile Banking. In this study, Technology Acceptance Model has employed as the basic model by adding perceived credibility and perceived cost. To fulfill the research purpose, a survey was conducted to collect primary data by using a self-administered questionnaire. The sample size was 150 respondents through convenience sampling method in non- probability sampling. In order to analyze the data, correlation and multiple linear regression analysis was used. The findings reveals perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness and perceived credibility have positive impact on customer favorable attitude formation while perceived cost not significant, when forming customer favorable attitudes on mobile banking.
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    The impact of Social Media Functions on building Brand Loyalty with special reference to High-End Fashion Retailer Brands in Sri Lanka
    (Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Weerakoon, C.E.; Perera, G.N.R.
    Building and maintaining Brand Loyalty is a very important topic that marketers are talking about for a long period, because having loyal customer base is essential to compete with emerging competitive markets. The new emerging trend is the social media as a marketing tool. Social media facilitate to the organizations to connect with the customers directly at low cost and it also exposes the organization in to a huge audience with prospective customers who can be converted into customers. When it comes to fashion the decisions are mostly based on the opinions and recommendations of others. The purpose of this study is to identify whether there is a relationship between the way customers use the social media functions such as Engagement, Sharing of Content, Accessibility, Sophistication and Credibility relating to the fashion retailer brands on customer brand loyalty and how organizations can use those functions to build customer loyalty toward their brands. As a result, the study concluded that the use of social media functions has a significant impact on brand loyalty of high-end fashion retailer brands in Sri Lanka.
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    The Impact of Innovation Management on the Business Success through Sustainable Productivity of Building Construction Industry: with reference to The International Construction Consortium (ICC – Sri Lanka
    (Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Preethisinghe, G.S.M.; Perera, G.N.R.
    Every commercialized company seeking profits while minimizing their costs. Most of organizations think that the way to maximize profit is only reducing costs. But the reality is reducing costs will occur unnecessary problems to the organization. So, there might be a way for profit maximization and business success. The key of successful business is called Sustainable productivity. In this research, researcher has chosen Building construction industry. Because, construction companies face many challenges due to the changed technical, economic and social conditions inside and outside the sector. In this research, researcher has shown how the six pillars of innovation management help to obtain sustainable productivity. Researcher has selected International Construction Consortium – ICC (Sri Lanka) as a reference and there was an in-depth interview among researcher and the respective persons from ICC about their Innovation management system.
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    How far Marketing Strategies followed by the Supermarkets will Impact on a Consumer to be loyal for a specific Super Market chain in Sri Lanka
    (Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Jayasinghe, B.D.; Perera, G.N.R.
    The purpose of the research is to examine the effectiveness of marketing strategies of modern trade and their level of impact on customer loyalty towards supermarket chains in Sri Lanka. For the selected sample, which is from Colombo, Gampaha and Kelaniya areas, 100 questionnaires were distributed both in online and offline and the results gathered from responses were analysed in order to get a meaningful conclusion. To accomplish this, a conceptual framework was designed and relationships among its’ constructs (Above the line advertising, sales promotions, service quality and visual merchandizing) were hypothesized. The hypotheses were tested based on the identified marketing strategies which are above the line advertising, sales promotions, service quality and visual merchandizing in relation to the customer loyalty in supermarkets. Some of the variables are having moderate relationships while some are having strong relationships with customer loyalty. Hypotheses were tested using structural equation modelling and subgroup correlation analysis in SPSS.
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    Impact of Social Media Marketing on Brand preference of Smartphones among Sri Lankan Youth
    (Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Dilhani, K.N.; Perera, G.N.R.
    The social media has unique features compared to traditional marketing tools and using social media has become very popular among youth. A smartphone also has become an essential part of the life among youth. Smartphone market also has become very competitive and building brand preference for a smartphone brand is not a very easy as leading brands are coming up with innovations frequently. This study evaluates the impact of social media marketing on brand preference of smartphone brands among Sri Lankan youth with special reference to Facebook. A research gap was identified and the objective was to evaluate the impact of social media marketing on brand preference of smartphone brands among Sri Lankan youth. Social media visibility, Social media engagement and Social influence from social media were selected as independent variables. Facebook was the selected social media network for the study for the convenience of studying. Brand preference was the dependent variable and the relationship between the brand preference and each independent variable was studied analyzing the collected data from 100 respondents using a structured questionnaire distributed online. Identifying the impact of above independent variables on brand preference of smartphones were the specific objectives of the study.