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Item Work-Life Balance of Women Academics in Sri Lanka- The moderating effect of Individualism vs. Collectivism(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya., 2022) Welmilla, I.; Semasinghe, D.M.This study aimed to investigate the relationship between work-family demands with work-life balance (WLB) and the moderating effect of individualism vs. collectivism on the identified relationship of women academics. Nowadays, the education sector in Sri Lanka is required to achieve the global demands and expectations of the new world. Consequently, the Sri Lankan higher education sector is continuously upgrading. Thus, women holding academic positions require attributes of intelligence, knowledge, and skills. Still, women in academics enjoy less freedom in family life relative to their men counterparts. This study is among the first attempts to explore the moderating effect of Individualism vs. Collectivism on the phenomenon of WLB among women academics in Sri Lanka. Focusing on WLB in the academic profession, this study has used the quantitative method to explore the relationship between work-family demand and WLB of culturally diverse women academics. A questionnaire survey was used to collect data from a total of 801 university lecturers in Sri Lankan state universities. The result of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) indicated that work-family demands are negatively associated with WLB, and the cultural value of individualism vs. collectivism (IC) is observed that significantly moderate the relationship between work-family demands with WLB. These typical working and living conditions of women academics make it interesting and informative to understand their WLB and how the IC culture value influences their WLB. Moreover, this study supports understanding the perception-centred approach characterizing WLB research.Item Leadership and Innovation on Firms’ Performance with the Moderation of Competitive Rivalry: A Study on Large Export Manufacturing Firms in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2021) Jayasekera, J.A.W.M.; Karunarathne, W.V.A.D.; Semasinghe, D.M.The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the effects of Leadership Management Style (LMS) and Innovation (INV) on Firms Performance (FP). Whist this study proposes to examine the mediating role of Innovation (INV) in the relationship between LMS and FP in large export manufacturing Firms in Sri Lanka. Further the study will examine the moderating effect on Competitive Rivalry (RVLRY) in the relationship between LMS and INV. Using a sample of 453 large export manufacturing companies in Sri Lanka and “C” level managers were chosen in and data collected through a questionnaire developed using google form and structural equation modeling was used using AMOS. The results reveal that LMS has a significant impact of Firms performance (FP) and the Innovation (INV). The results also indicate that RVLRY has a moderating impact of relationship between LMS and INV. Findings of this study reinforce the leadership on Innovation and improved firms’ performance both financial and non-financial aspects. In addition, leadership role plays a significant role in a competitive environment to innovate and perform. This is one of the earliest studies on Leadership Style on Innovation and Firms’ performance when there is a moderating impact of completive Rivalry in the large export manufacturing category of firms in Sri Lanka.Item "THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN NOVELTY, PRIOR KNOWLEDGE AND RESOURCE INVESTMENTS IN NEW VENTURE EMERGENCE (SUMMARY)(Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 2015) Huyghe, Annelore.; Davidsson, Per.; Semasinghe, D.M.Despite Shane & Venkataraman’s (2000) call for studies on the interdependence of entrepreneurs and “opportunities”, empirical research going beyond the individual to explore the non-actor part of the “entrepreneurship nexus”, as well as the interplay between both, remains scarce (Davidsson forthcoming; Grégoire & Shepherd 2012). Replacing objective “opportunities” with subjective new venture ideas as the nexus partner, our study addresses this critical gap in the literature. Specifically, we investigate the contingent relationships through which the novelty of new venture ideas influences nascent ventures’ ability to get established in the market. Highly novel new venture ideas represent a key source of economic development, as they imply greater potential for growth and high profits (Rosenbusch et al. 2011). However, novelty also increases the uncertainty, complexity and liabilities related to the venture creation process (Samuelsson & Davidsson 2009). This tension has recently led to a debate on the performance implications of novelty in the context of new ventures (e.g., Amason et al. 2006, Boyer & Blazy 2013). We advance this emerging stream of research by focusing on nascent ventures (avoiding survival bias) and by disentangling mediating and moderating contingencies pertaining to the novelty-performance relationship.Item Are Women Entrepreneurs More Vulnerable Than Their Male Counterparts? – A Content Analysis(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2013) Kodisinghe, K.A.M.S.; Semasinghe, D.M.The objective of this study is to examine the problems faced by women entrepreneurs. Data for the study was mainly based on secondary data and some observations. The basic research method selected for the study was content analysis. For the identification of these issues we have reviewed various research articles and reports published by major journals. Findings of this study reveal that access to finance, social and cultural constrains, lack of specialized education background and advances in technology and role problems are the major problems faced by women entrepreneurs. We recommend that more organizations and networks should be established for the development of women entrepreneurs and to minimise the problems faced by them.Item Impediments to Innovations among Small Scale Firms in Agro-Food Processing Sector in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Anjalee, G.H.I.; Semasinghe, D.M.Innovation is widely recognized as a key factor in the competitiveness of nations and firms. However, innovation is a cost to any organization, especially to small scale firms due to the nature of operations. The aim of this study was to identify the impediments to innovation faced by the owners of small scale agro-food processing firms in Sri Lanka and in turn to investigate the most critical impediments faced by them. The data were collected from 120 small scale agro-food processing firms. The study was able to locate eight internal and five external factors that act as impediments to innovations. High cost of innovations and lack of qualified personals were identified as the most critical internal impediments while, insufficient government support was identified as the most critical external impediment to innovation. The results of the study recommend that, the policy makers should pay their attention on providing financial assistance to the small scale firms to come up with new innovations and also focus on developing skilled human resources that can be used by the small scale firms.Item Empowering Women Entrepreneurs Through Micro Finance in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka: Challenges and Scenarios(Centre of Excellence for Scientific & Research Journalism, 2014) Yogendrarajah, R.; Semasinghe, D.M.Micro finance serves as a vital role for women entrepreneurship development in the developing countries as well as in Sri Lanka. As a result of 30 years conflict situation, women lost their male relatives in struggle, and forced to take a responsibility of their family in order to look after their children, aged parents and their male relatives. Micro finance institutions help the poor people particularly women in effective ways in order to create income generating activities. This study focuses the challenges and Scenarios associated with the adoption of microfinance as an instrument for empowering women entrepreneurs in Jaffna District in Sri Lanka. The prime objective of this study is to identify the challenges and scenarios in empowering women entrepreneurs through micro finance in Jaffna District. In this study the rural areas of Jaffna, Nallur, Kopay Divisional Secretariat Divisions, were selected as the sample size of population of women entrepreneurs who were involving in numerous self employable activities around 76 women. Both primary and secondary data were used for gathering information and quantitative and qualitative analysis was carried out to find out the results. To find out the results and check the validity and reliability of quantitative analysis the case study method also used in this study. In the quantitative analysis the correlation and regression method was used to find out the association between the variables of entrepreneurship challenges and needs and micro finance objectives by using SPSS. Three case study method also was included in this study that the women entrepreneurs were improved their activity by the support of micro finance institutions facing many challenges. The result of this study concluded that there is no significant relationship between the objectives of micro finance institutions and the needs of the respondents. In addition to this, using micro finance facilities create more job opportunities and variety of economic activities and improve household education, family welfare and empowering women themselves. Further this study shows that even though micro finance scheme is a strategy for increasing women entrepreneurs those who express their feelings on challenges and issues on marketing activities due to transport problem and financial difficulties. It is suggested that if much awareness will be created to enlighten the women entrepreneurs on record keeping, building assets, managing risk and increasing savings, it would be identified as the best strategy for helping poor women entrepreneurs’ access on financial and non-financial services in MFIs.Item Contribution of Micro Credit Programme in Empowering Women: A Special Reference to Kilinochchi District in Sri Lanka(2014) Yogendrarajah, R.; Semasinghe, D.M.The prime objective of this study was to assess the impact of micro credit in empowering poor women before and after joining with micro credit programmes. The study was conducted at Kilinochchi District in Sri Lanka as one of the war affected areas. Both qualitative and quantitative methods have been used to obtain a reliable data. Data were derived from a questionnaire survey of a sample of 94 women clients and three focus group discussions were conducted involving 18 women while in-depth interviews were carried out with another 12. The paired sample statistics was used to find out the significant differences between before and after joining the micro credit programme. The study indicated that the income levels of the majority of the clients have increased after the delivery of micro credit. The results have also been shown in the enhancement of the women’s self-confidence with respect to the capability to work on their own and improve their lives. The study concluded that the microfinance activities are necessary for the overall empowerment except access of micro credit.Item Challenges Facing by Women in Accessing Credit from Microfinance Institutions in Sri Lanka(2013) Yogendrarajah, R.; Semasinghe, D.M.Women are key instrument in the society and their role is very important in the world because they act dual role both in the family as well as society. The microfinance has an important role in empowering women in developing countries as well as in Sri Lanka by accessing credit facilities for their income generating activities to empower the rural women. With the conflict situation in Northern part of Sri Lanka, most of the men left from that area and they were unable to withstand by political condition. In this situation, many men were killed and women had to take the responsibility of the family as leaders. The Sri Lankan government has a responsibility to rehabilitate and revitalize the situation under post war development. MFIs provide their members with financial and social intermediation services to help improve their income generating activities. The aim of this study is to examine the challenges faced by women when accessing loans for income generating activities. This concept paper focuses on a review of academic literature on Challenges when accessing loans in empowering women through micro finance in Sri Lanka. For this purpose previous studies from developed and developing countries on this regards have been examined and then found out the solutions from the literatures. Finally, the conclusion of their studies has been analyzed and then provided a comprehensive literature by seeing the experiences and usefulness of the activities about the solutions for the challenges in accessing the loan facilities for income generating activities to empower poor women. Therefore it has been strongly feel that a look into empowering women and developing them with the support of the microfinance and the monitoring and creating awareness are important to eliminate the challenges facing by them in accessing credit from Microfinance Institutions.Item Women Empowerment through Micro-credit: A Special Reference to Jaffna District(2013) Yogendrarajah, R.; Semasinghe, D.M.The prime objective of this study is to identify the association between micro-credit and women empowerment by giving opportunity for self-employment and the impact of micro-credit on women empowerment as well. This study focuses on women empowerment through micro-credit under post-war development in Jaffna District selecting five rural areas which are Chankanai, Sandilipay, Vaddukoddai, Uduvil, and Kondavil in Jaffna District. The information has been gathered by primary data from the rural women in the above selected areas and 66 responded out of 77. From the results, it is concluded that the micro-credit has significant relationship and positively correlated (0.752) with empowerment at 0.01 significant levels and its impact is crucial as well. It is suggested that the micro-credit facilities are essential in empowering women and developing the women entrepreneurs under post-war development.Item Impact of Demographic Factors on Women Empowerment through Micro Credit – A Special Reference to Jaffna District(2013) Yogendrarajah, R.; Semasinghe, D.M.Rural women play a significant role in the domestic and socio economic life of the society. Therefore nations‟ development is not possible without developing this segment of the society. Women face numerous challenges in accessing education and health services, as well as economic development. Most micro finance organizations target poor women and usually who excluded from social groups. This study explores the personal demographic factors‟ influence on empowerment of women in Jaffna District. Quantitative method has been used for gathering information and purposeful sampling method has been used to collect the data. The survey instrument in the form of close-ended questionnaire was developed for the purpose of collecting the main data for the study. Regression analysis has been used to find out the impact of demographical factors on women empowerment and the Independent sample one-way Anova (f-test) and independent sample t-test (t-test) were used to identify the significant mean differences between the degree of women empowerment across the demographic factors. The results showed that the demographic factors surveyed education, occupation and experience influence on women empowerment and that have weak impact on them. Based on the findings, it has been concluded that there is no significant mean differences between the degree of empowerment across the education level, occupation and years of experience.
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