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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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