Volume 10 - Issue 2 - 2021
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Item How do Market Orientation and Learning Orientation Impact on Born Global Firm Performance? The Synergistic Effect(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya., 2021) Herath, H. M. T. S.The purpose of this study was to examine how Market Orientation (MO) and Learning Orientation (LO) influence the international performance of born global firms and to enrich the existing literature with empirical evidence from an emerging country context, Sri Lanka, yet an inclusive research area. The findings of the study were analyzed using 225 ICT export entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka, and the hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling. The findings reveal that MO and LO significantly influence the international performance of born global firms, and further, it found that LO mediates the MO-Performance relationship, confirming the synergistic effect. The paper then discusses the managerial implications of the findings of the study.Item Factors Affecting Intention to use Mobile Money Service in Sri Lanka: Moderating Effect of Demographic Factors with reference to Western Province of Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya., 2021) Sanjeewa, H. H. D.; Yatigammana, M. R. K. N.Mobile money service allows mobile users to perform financial transactions using their mobile phones which helps to decline the physical use of money. Therefore, the objective of the study was to identify the factors affecting intention to use mobile money service in Sri Lanka and the relationship between those identified factors and intention to use mobile money services. Further, the study is carried out to assess the moderating impact of demographic factors on the relationship between those factors and the intention to use mobile money. The data collection was carried out through a structured questionnaire from 400 randomly selected participants of Western province Sri Lanka. Usefulness, trust, risk, awareness, and knowledge are identified as the key factors affecting the intention to use mobile money service. There was a significant positive relationship between usefulness, trust, awareness, and knowledge with the intention to use mobile money while the risk was significantly negative. Further, the moderating impact of demographic factors on the above-identified five factors was assessed and it was noted that gender and age do not moderate the relationship between the above-identified five factors and user intention, but income level and job title moderate the relationship between above-identified factors and user intention. Based on the results of the study it is recommended that mobile telecom operators should take actions to increase usefulness, trust, awareness and knowledge while taking actions to decrease the risk factors involving in the service. Further, it is recommended to consider education level and working experience as moderating demographic factors of factors effecting on intention to use mobile money services.Item The Moderating Impact of Team Tenure on Team Trust - Team Performance Relationship with Relevance to Executive Level Employees of Sri Lankan Tyre Manufacturing Industry(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya., 2021) Rajapaksha, B. P.; Nishanthi, H. M.Even though, many determinants of team performance are found in extended literature, team trust and the moderating effect of team tenure is little investigated in Sri Lankan context, and it has not been studied yet. Bridging the gap in this context, the current study assessed the moderating impact of team tenure on team trust and team performance relationship in Sri Lankan tyre manufacturing industry. The current study was conducted as a cross-sectional study among a sample of one hundred and ninety-two executive level employees selected from four major tyre manufacturing organizations following the stratified random sampling technique. Primary data were collected using a standard questionnaire distributed via Google form. The collected data were analysed with the support the SPSS employing correlation, regression, descriptive statistics and process matrix. It is found that team tenure does not moderate the relationship between team trust and team performance, and also founded that strong positive relationship between team trust and team performance. Moreover, team trust impact positively on team performance and team tenure does not impact team trust and team performance separately. It is recommended to tyre manufacturing organizations to facilitate more open communication and information sharing in order to improve executive level employees trust within teams, which in turn, will affect their team performance. Future researchers can use other variables like organizational support, team diversity, and personality as moderators of their study.Item Determinants of Financial Sustainability of the Microfinance Institutions in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya., 2021) Perera, H. S. C.Today microfinance organizations are facing a challenge with how to balance poverty alleviation mission and sustainability. Hence, the importance of the sustainability of microfinance organizations goes beyond the poverty reduction mission. This research study was meant to determine the influential factors of financial sustainability in microfinance institutions in Sri Lanka. Existing two theories: Welfare Theory and Institutionalist theory were tested in MFIs in Sri Lanka with cause and effect relationship between variables, and the researcher adopted a cross-sectional research design with quantitative approach conducted in a field setting. Financial self-sufficiency is the dependent variable and twenty independent variables were used to test the determinant factors of sustainability. It was found that, the loan officer productivity, MFIs age, organization type, the yield on the gross loan portfolio, and profit margin have a positive and statistically strongly significance at 1% significant level. These factors profoundly affect the determination of the financial sustainability of MFIs in Sri Lanka. Further, the interest rate was positive with 5% statistically significant level, and active borrowers were positive with 10% in determining the financial sustainability of MFIs. Operating expenses ratio and capital structure negatively affected with 1% statistically significant level, where portfolio risk at 30 days affected negatively at 5% in determining the financial sustainability. Moreover, other factors: average loan size, the percentage of female borrowers, MFIs size, cost per borrower, number of MFIs products, lending methodology, geographic locations, write off ratio, risk coverage ratio and MFI regulations did not have a significant impact on financial sustainability in Sri Lanka.Item Impact of Self-Awareness and Self-Management on Organizational Commitment to Change: A Study Based on Aviation Industry in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya., 2021) Warnakula, U. S.; Dhammika, K. A. S.; Karunarathne, R. A. I. C.As organizations are operating in a turbulent environment, it is essential for them to change the existing practices and policies. Currently, the aviation sector in Sri Lanka needs to acclimatize to survive in their environment. Thus, this study aims to identify the impact of self-awareness and self-management on organizational commitment to change. Moreover, the study aims to examine the boundary conditions of the proposed relationship by examining the moderating effect of environmental dynamism, which received less attention in the extant literature. Researchers adopted post-positivism research philosophy, and the approach is deductive. Data were collected using a self-administrated questionnaire from 330 front-line employees in the aviation industry in Sri Lanka. PLS-SEM model was adopted to analyze the data, and the violating assumptions were tested. The results showed that self-awareness and self-management are positive and significant influences on organizational commitment to change, and environmental dynamism moderate these relationships. The key implication of this study is managing any critical times by inspiring their level of self-awareness and management to change the mindset of staff to cope with the organization change to enhance the commitment. The findings of the study are beneficial for potential aviation-related academies and partitioners.Item Qualitative Research Inquiry to Explore the Corporate Leaders in the Time of COVID-19(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya., 2021) Eranda, B. A. N.The outbreak of COVID-19 has influenced the business organizations’ performance and behavior in numerous ways. Based on the pressing need to respond to this pandemic researchers have to play a significant role in uncovering the possibilities for business organizations to adapt to this uncertain situation. Therefore, it is important to pay attention on the corporate managers’ and entrepreneurs’ contextualized experiences and their meanings attributed to COVID-19 in order to mitigate failures and to learn to be sustained. This requires qualitative research which can be helpful to capturing the deeper understanding of lived realities of the corporate leaders who are affected by the pandemic. The qualitative researchers can adopt five types of approaches including narrative inquiry, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study to uncover these lived experiences of corporate respondents and to make sense of those experiences for the benefit of various stakeholders. Each of these five approaches to qualitative inquiry can be utilized for researching different facets of the corporate leaders at the time of pandemic. The in-person interactions need for qualitative inquiry to look into the corporate leaders’ lives is challenged by the social distancing generated by the new normal behavior. However, the evolving nature of the modern technology has ended this challenge with its novel initiatives.Item A Study on Fraud Prevention and Detection Methods in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya., 2021) Peiris, G. K. H.; Aruppala, W. D. N.Forensic accounting is emerging area in countries like Sri Lanka even though it came up many years ago. Corporate frauds have been increasing worldwide, emphasizing the needfulness of forensic accounting and it has become a great opportunity for accountants and other professionals to think beyond the traditional framework. This study examines the perception of accounting professionals regarding the occupational fraud prevention and detection methods and software used in Sri Lanka. The survey was conducted using hundred accounting professionals of Sri Lanka. The results reveal that password protection, external audits, bank reconciliations and internal control review are quite common in use while bank reconciliation, cash review and password protection are also highly employed methods to detect occupational frauds. However, fraud hotline, forensic auditing and forensic accountants are identified as the least used methods. Further, filtering software, virus protection and firewalls could be identified as the commonly used fraud prevention and detection software used in Sri Lankan context. Implementation of effective fraud preventing and detecting methods, software is highly recommended on preventing and detecting corporate frauds in Sri Lanka.Item Selecting an Own Path: Gender Differences of Self-Employment by Major Industry Groups in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya., 2021) Gunathilaka, D. K. M.; Samaraweera, G. R. S. R. C.Gender specific diversity of Self-employment is taking place in the labour market, including nearly sixty percent of the informal sector employment in Sri Lanka. Involvement in Self-employment is higher among males than the females, thus showing the general gender disparity in the Sri Lankan labour market. However, gender specific involvements differ by the nature of self-employment. This study examines the gender differences of self-employment by major industry groups in Sri Lanka, including agriculture, industry and services. The Sri Lanka Labour Force Survey (2018) conducted by the Department of Census and Statistics was used as the data source and nine binary logistic regression models were applied for the analysis. Results revealed that gender is a significant factor on self-employment choice in each sector. Women are less prone to be self-employed in the agricultural and services sectors while they are highly prone to be self-employed in the industrial sector. Occupational choices under self-employment also considerably differ for men and women. Gender specific policies were finally suggested to promote self-employment in each major industry groups in Sri Lanka by enhancing awareness, training opportunities and introducing educational reforms in both school and higher education.