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    Improving community vitality: spiritually informed entrepreneurial actions
    (Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, 2024) Dissanayake, S.; Pavlovich, K.; Kovács, G.
    Abstract Purpose The purpose of this paper is to depict how entrepreneurs improve community vitality in the economic, social and environmental dimensions. The paper joins the conversation of business spirituality as the study participants were Sri Lankan Buddhist entrepreneurs from the emerging venture context (i.e. from enterprises which are less than 1–10 years old). The aim of the paper is to introduce spiritually informed entrepreneurial actions, thus contributing to a better understanding of entrepreneurial impact on communities. Design/methodology/approach The paper involves a qualitative, interpretivist research design. Data was collected by conducting 28 semi-structured interviews with 18 Sri Lankan Buddhist entrepreneurs. Research participants were selected from diverse business sectors. The research applied inductive thematic analysis for structuring and interpreting data. Findings For Sri Lankan Buddhist entrepreneurs, improving community vitality is an essential altruistic goal of their business agenda. During the operations of their ventures, this altruistic goal is translated into altruistic actions that improve the economic, social and environmental vitalities of communities. Research findings highlight that in the case of Sri Lankan Buddhist entrepreneurs, altruistic actions are informed by compassion, which is a fundamental value in the Buddhist religion. Drawing on the findings, an integrated model of community vitality, which describes the role of compassion and the mechanisms of entrepreneurial actions in a Buddhist setting was developed inductively. Originality/value Studying entrepreneurial actions to focus on the motivations behind improving community vitality is a new research topic. The paper provides valuable knowledge on business spirituality regarding the compassionate motivations of Buddhist entrepreneurs. The integrated model of community vitality, which describes the mechanisms of entrepreneurial actions to improve community vitality in a Buddhist setting could be an essential compass not only to entrepreneurs but also research scholars in the field of business spirituality.
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    Pro-Social Behaviour: A Comparative Study among Online and Local Taxi Drivers
    (9th International Conference on Business and Information (ICBI-2018), Department of Management Studies and Toc H Institute of Science and Technology, India, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Mathew, G.C.; Ramanathan, H.N.; Joseph, D.
    India’s car lease industry has recorded a whopping growth for the last couple of years. The Indian cab chartering market’s proceeds is extrapolated to proliferate at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 35% and is likely to be valued around Rupees 800 billon in another two years. The car rental business has emerged as one the fastest growing business. Unreliable local (public) taxi attributed with arrogant behavior of drivers, exploitation and unfair rates are some of the major problems encountered by the common public in these days. Emergence of online taxi services resulted in a shift in demand from local taxi services to online taxi services. Print media as well as visual media reported that there are many reasons behind this shift and one of the important factors that they identified is the attitude and behavior pattern of taxi drivers. The main objective of this paper is to explore whether there is difference in the prosocial behavior pattern of online taxi drivers and local taxi drivers. Societies require a great level of cooperation and accommodative nature for the survival. This study adopted a descriptive research and used Mann-Whitney U, non-parametric test. The result of this study indicates that, there is a significant difference in the pro-social behavior pattern among Online and Local Taxi Drivers. The behavior of helping and caring others can be termed as pro-social behavior. It is observed that the helping natures of human beings are not occurring in an unrelated way, but it occurs because of the symptomatic relationship of various factors. Inadequate research in the field of pro-sociality makes the research gap wider. A study of prosocial behavior among cab drivers makes this study unique and presumes that this study will enlighten and provide exciting directions in pro-social research which may take this discipline to new horizons