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The second issue in the first volume of journal The third article aims to elaborately analyze the
also accommodates three types of papers: Role of High-performance Work Practices and
review papers, conceptual papers, and empirical Personality Traits on Employee Innovative
papers that employ quantitative, qualitative Work Behaviors. This quantitative case study
and/or mixed methods approaches. Review from the positivistic paradigm descriptively
papers provide critical and concise yet analyze the high-performance work practices
comprehensive and contemporary review of a and employee personality traits in enhancing
particular theme specific to Management. In the employee innovative work behavior in five-
contrast, conceptual and empirical papers are star hotels. The study has been carried out
more common and demonstrate sound through primary date collected with support of
theoretical, practical and/or methodological a self-administered questionnaire. 260
underpinning and make a clear contribution to questionnaires have been distributed among all
the Management discipline. 9 five star hotels in Western Province of Sri
Lanka and responded 145 usable
The second issue of the first volume of AJMS questionnaires have been analyzed using
comprises six research papers and a book correlation and SEM bootstrapping. The results
review that critically explores contemporary of the study confirm positive relationship
management and/or business issues in both between high-performance work practices and
local and Asian contexts. The first article innovative work behavior and employees’
investigates Personal Judgments and Emotional personality traits induce high-performance work
Reactions towards Online based Self-Service practices.
Technologies. This analyze the relation between
the visible growth and personal judgement along The fourth article stands to investigate the
with consumer reactions to SSTs. The second Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship Development
paper reports a case study carried out to explore Training Programmes on Business Growth of
Relational Contract, Asset Specificity and SMEs. The data were collected over. The
Business Performance: An Empirical study has adapted the Partial Least Square
Investigation of Small Enterprises in Path Modelling (PLS) using purposively
Seethawaka Divisional Secretariat Division in administered structured questionnaires from
Colombo District, Sri Lanka. This determine and 100 EDTP completed respondents in Nuwara
interpret the influence of relational qualities in Eliya district, Sri Lanka to explore the impact of
business performance and asset specificity. three EDTP dimensions, business knowledge
Further, reveals the importance of organizing and practice, business performance, and
network formation programs to create strong psychological indicators, on business growth
relationships with exchange parties that through two mediating variables, increase in
encourage asset specificity. investment and formalization.
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