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Moderator effect of technological advancement on financial development and economic growth nexus in Asian countries

Technology is a crucial moderator to achieving sustainable development with Financial Development 

Managerial conception of integrating sustainability into management control systems: evidence from Sri Lankan manufacturing companies

What drives companies to integrate Sustainability into Management Control Systems- Managerial Perception.

 

The effects of enterprises' attention to digital economy on innovation and cost control: Evidence from A-stock market of China

Promoting Innovation and the Digital Economy

Effects of resource orchestration, strategic information exchange capabilities, and digital orientation on innovation and performance of hotel supply chains

Balancing IT and resource orchestration capabilities for improving supply chain innovation and performance.

Medicine in Sri Lanka: Selection of healing rituals to cure health issues

The supernatural healing systems encompass ritual and magical practices rooted in classical knowledge and religious traditions.

Issues and challenges related to ayurveda wellness tourism development in Sri Lanka:

The perspective of ayurveda health professionals.

 

Employees’ attitudes and the quality of the ayurvedic drug manufacturing processes

The study findings suggest that higher levels of job satisfaction and job involvement are associated with improved process quality in Ayurveda drug manufacturing.

Antecedents and challenges of sustainable event management practices in Sri Lanka

Strategies for overcoming the challenges of sustainable event management practices in Sri Lanka.

Harmonizing luxury and sustainability: potential of developing luxury sustainable tourism in Sri Lanka from hoteliers’ perspective

Combining luxury and sustainability in the hospitality sector.

A critique on theoretical framework for adoption of corporate sustainability practices: integrating institutional motives, stakeholder motives, and managerial motives.

Developing a theoretical framework for corporate sustainability adoption of a business organization.

The role of shopping values, cognitive and affective evaluations on the relationship between store environment and store patronage intention: a future research agenda

Unveiling the impact of shopping values, cognitive and affective evaluations on patronage intention in modern retail.

Impact of perceived risk on female consumers’ online purchase intention: empirical evidence from online apparel retail market in western province in Sri Lanka

Risk Perception in Online Apparel Shopping: Insights from Western Province, Sri Lanka.

Reasons for undergraduates’ attitudes toward online learning

University students exhibit a range of attitudes towards online learning, swayed by various influences, yet many rally behind it in times of crisis.

Exploring digital agility and digital transformation leadership: a mixed method study

Digital Agility and Digital Transformation Leadership.

Financial development and environmental quality in developed countries: a systematic literature review

Financial Development’s Impact on Environmental Quality.

   

The effect of financial development on environmental quality: a developing country evidence

Financial Development and Environmental Quality: Insights from Sri Lanka.

   

 



Motives of mobile payment adoption during COVID-19 pandemic

Motives of mobile payment adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka..   

Fusion of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in the Banking Industry: Current Application, Adoption, and Future Challenges

Fusion of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in the Banking Industry

Exploring the challenges in developing and managing digital agility among Sri Lankan family business owners during the economic crisis situation

Managing digital agility among Sri Lankan family business owners during the economic crisis situation

Food acquisition and consumption issues of South Asian countries: a systematic literature review and future research agenda

Food acquisition and consumption issues of South Asian countries

Persistent Fiscal Deficit as a Determinant of Inflation in Sri Lanka: An ARDL Approach

Persistent Fiscal Deficit as a Determinant of Inflation in Sri Lanka

The Role of Health-Related Perceptions on Mobile Payment Adoption: Evidence from the Mobile Banking Industry in Sri Lanka

The Role of Health-Related Perceptions on Mobile Payment Adoption in Sri Lanka

Insurance Penetration and Institutional Spillover on Economic Growth: A Dynamic Spatial Econometric Approach on the Asian and Europe Region

Insurance Penetration and Institutional Spillover on Economic Growth

Luxury Marketing and Sustainability in the South Asian Context

Luxury Marketing and Sustainability in the South Asian Context

 

How Has COVID-19 Impacted the Business Performance of Sri Lankan Firms: A Qualitative Inquiry

How Has COVID-19 Impacted the Business Performance of Sri Lankan Firms

Financial Soundness of General Insurance Industry in Sri Lanka: A CARAMELS Approach

Financial Soundness of General Insurance Industry in Sri Lanka:

Financial Services Employee Engagement and Attitude Toward Artificial Intelligence: Evidence From Sri Lanka

Exploring Digital Agility and Digital Transformation Leadership

Preventive Strategies to Reduce Musculoskeletal Disorders of Nursing Personnel; A Systematic Review: Musculoskeletal Disorders of Nursing Personnel

Preventive Strategies to Reduce Musculoskeletal Disorders of Nursing Personnel;

 

 



Assessing the sustainability performance of social practices in manufacturing supply chains

Examine the impact of social practices adopted by the apparel industry on sustainable performance.   

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Tourism Industry in Sri Lanka: The Dilemmas of Industry Sustainability

Resilience Strategies for sustaining tourism business during and after the post-pandemic situation.

Connecting the Connected: How Is Sri Lanka Prepared to Respond to Digital Tourists?

Preparedness of Sri Lanka as a smart tourism destination to cater the digital tourists.

Line Rooms: Authentic Approach to Heritage Tourism

Exploring upcountry tea pickers' culture and their lifestyles which are so culturally vibrant and socially sentimental.

Hospitality and Tea: Taking Tea Culture to the Next Level

How Sri Lankan hoteliers taking tea culture to the next level?

Information Technology and Its Challenges Towards Sri Lankan Event Tourism: Event Managers’ Perspective

Challenges of the adaptation of information technology in Sri Lankan event tourism.

Book Review: Tourism Management, Marketing, and Development edited by Mariani, M. M., Czakon, W., Buhalis, D., & Vitouladiti, O.  (Palgrave Macmillan; 1st Edition (2016); Pages: 291)

The performance and strategies at the destination and advances in management practices in the tourism sector.

Domestic Millennial Tourists’ Attitudes & Beliefs Towards Green Hotels Practices of Green Certified Hotels in Sri Lanka.

The application of authentic eco-tourism concept in a futuristic world. 

 

Study on The Potential of Developing Medical Tourism in Sri Lanka with Special Reference to the Major Private Hospitals in Sri Lanka

Focusing Medical tourism in Sri Lanka as an emerging concept in Tourism.

Museum Visitor Experience in Sri Lanka

The level of museum visitor experience and how it affects tourists’ satisfaction, recommendation and revisit intention.

Corporate social responsibility and dividend policy in Sri Lankan firms: A data triangulation approach

The generosity of the management leads to shareholders' prosperity.

Interdependent Trading Behavior of Foreign and Local Investors: Evidence from the Colombo Stock Exchange

Interdependent Trading Behavior of Foreign and Local Investors.

Motives of mobile payment adoption during COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka: a holistic approach of both customers' and retailers' perspectives

Motives of mobile payment adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health-related Behavior and Adoption of Mobile Payments in Life Insurance During the Pandemic: Evidence from Sri Lanka

Health-related Behavior and Adoption of Mobile Payments in Life Insurance During the Pandemic.

 

Perceived Security Risk, Perceived Privacy Risk, and Perceived Trust of Mobile Payment Adopters and Non-Adopters: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Perceived Security Risk, Perceived Privacy Risk, and Perceived Trust of Mobile Payment Adopters and Non-Adopters.

Demystifying research culture in universities

Demystifying research culture in universities

 

Identified research gaps in the literature of employee engagement: a study of the military context

Employee engagement in the military context

 

The Dividend Decision Model: A Possible Solution for the Dividend Puzzle

Introduction of the Dividend Decision Model as a solution for the dividend puzzle.

Is South Asia ready for the next universe–metaverse? Arguments and suggestions for further research

The readiness for the next universe: Metaverse

 

Supply-driven Factors of Inflation in Sri Lanka: An ARDL Approach

Supply-driven Factors of Inflation in Sri Lanka

A multi-layer organizational culture framework for enhancing the financial performance in tourism and hospitality family firms

A multi-layer organizational culture framework for tourism and hospitality family firms.

Sponsored-influencer marketing: effects of the commercial orientation of influencer-created content on followers’ willingness to search for information

How does sponsored influencer marketing on Instagram stimulate followers’ willingness to search for information?

Impact of diversity management on innovative work behavior: mediating role of human resource management and affective commitment

Does diversity management foster innovative work behavior?

Impact of Forensic Accounting Knowledge on Fraud Detection: With Special Reference to Sri Lankan Context

The skills which forgers use to conduct fraud are hard to reveal.

 

 

 

Is South Asia ready for the next universe–metaverse? Arguments and suggestions for further research

Hospitality exists even beyond the commercial domain

 

 

 

 

Telecommuting and Creativity of Professional Employees in Software Developing Industry in Sri Lanka

How does telecommuting flourish and languish creativity?

 

 

 

 

 

Book Review: Glass Half Broken: Shattering the Barriers that Still Hold Women Back at Work, Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg (Harvard Business Review Press, 1 st Edition (2021), Pages: 294).

Is Glass Ceiling Still prevalent and how to shatter it?

 

 

 

 

 

Message From The Dean

 

I am delighted to present the inaugural issue of our Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) Research Bulletin. As academics, research remains one of the most important contributions we make to the world. This publication showcases the diversity and quality of research conducted by our faculty members and highlights the many ways in which they advance modes of thinking, knowledge, and practice. Our researchers are highly engaged in our community, and I am proud of their dedication to rigorous and influential research that positively impacts our country and the world.

The Faculty of Management Studies is accredited as an “A” graded Faculty by the Quality Assurance Council of the University Grants Commission recently, with “A” grades for all its degree programmes. Being a state university and a consumer of public funds, we are highly conscious of academic excellence. The faculty is dedicated to pursuing an excellent teaching and research culture to deliver high-quality education in a picturesque and peaceful environment for our students and all other stakeholders. Identifying our academic responsibilities, this bulletin is intended as a step towards developing our community’s awareness of the quality and quantity of excellent research. Our researchers publish in top journals and explore a wide breadth of topics, as you will see herein. The primary goal of this bulletin speaks to fostering an environment that will inspire research excellence and train the next generation of scholars.

The past few years have continued to be challenging with the Covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis. As these issues persist, some of our researchers are putting their expertise to good use by examining their impact and identifying solutions to help the country and world move forward. Through a pragmatic and conscientious approach to research and by cultivating strategic partnerships, we aim to design an ecosystem that pursues, supports, and celebrates research that makes a difference.

I am very pleased to see the breadth of impactful research profiled in the pages of this bulletin, and I congratulate each contributor for their accomplishments. Further, I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to our many partners and stakeholders whose support makes our research activities possible. Collectively, we are committed to making an impact in the South Asian region and beyond for the better.

 

Prof. (Dr.) Athula Gnanapala

Dean

Faculty of Management Studies

Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka

 

Message From The Chairman

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Welcome to the first edition of the FMS Research Bulletin! This research bulletin showcases the diversity and quality of research conducted by our faculty members, and highlights the many ways in which they advance research and knowledge dissemination on modes of thinking, knowledge and practice. Our members are highly engaged in many innovative researches in diverse fields and I am proud of their dedication to rigorous and influential research that positively impacts their specific discipline, country and the world. The purpose behind research at the Faculty of Management Studies, the reason for enabling the transformation of our world through inspiration, innovation and integration. Through a pragmatic and conscientious approach to research, by cultivating strategic partnerships and by aligning ourselves with development-oriented research, we aim to design an ecosystem that pursues, supports and celebrates research that makes a difference. The ever-changing business landscape offers infinite research possibilities, and the ways in which we can make an impact are limitless. I would like to express my thanks and admiration to the editor-in-chief, the editorial team of the research bulletin and all of our researchers who continue to do excellent work, and to our many funders and partners whose support makes our research activity possible. With your dedication and dissemination of knowledge, we are able to continue transforming our world for a sustainable future.


Sincerely

Professor (Dr) M.S.M. Aslam

 

Chairman Research and Publication Unit/Faculty of Management Studies

Message From The Editor In Chief

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Knowledge dissemination is a core responsibility of researchers. In today's fast-paced world, numerous online and paper-based journals devoted to management studies are published globally. The academics of the Faculty of Management Studies at the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka significantly contribute to these scientific publications. In recognition of these contributions, the Research and Publication Unit of the Faculty of Management Studies is proud to present the latest issue of the FMS Research Bulletin. This bulletin summarizes key findings from research articles published in leading scientometric databases and provides convenient links to the respective journals or publications for easy reference.

 

The FMS Research Bulletin is published bi-annually and serves as an open platform for readers to track and evaluate emerging research topics in the field of management. It provides a space not only for eminent scientists but also for young academics just beginning their research careers, contributing to the global knowledge system.

 

I extend my special appreciation to the editorial board and the authors for their commitment and for submitting their research details for inclusion in the FMS Research Bulletin. I am confident that this platform will continue to grow and showcase the extreme capabilities and insightful concepts of our academics, bringing their research to the forefront of the world.

 

Kind regards,

 

Prof. (Mrs.) L.M.C.S. Menike 

Editor-in-Chief, FMS Research Bulletin 

Professor 

Department of Accountancy and Finance 

Faculty of Management Studies 

Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka

Editor in Chief – FMS Research Bulletin

 

Editorial Board

 

Editor-in-Chief

 

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Prof. L.M.C.S. Menike

 

Co-Editors

Mrs. PLGSD Piumali

Mr. KC Ariyarathna

   

 

Mrs. W.A.L.M. Bandara Mrs. S.H.M.L. Walakumbura

 

Editorial Advisors

 

 

Prof. W.K.A.C. Gnanapala

 

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Prof. M.S.M. Aslam

 

Graphic Designers

 

Mr. H.M.M.A. Herath

Mr. K.S.S.N. Karunaratne