Senior Lecturer
Management Studies
Email : thilinicg@mgt.sab.ac.lk
Dr. Thilini C. Gamage is a Senior Lecturer of the Department of Marketing Management, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka. In 2009, she obtained her BSc. (Hons) in Management and Information Technology from the University of Kelaniya with first-class honors. Also, the same year, she obtained the Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, United Kingdom. In 2016, she received her Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Colombo. She joined the Department of Marketing Management in 2010 and currently teaches undergraduate and graduate students of the Faculty of Management Studies and the Faculty of Graduate Studies. She is also working as a visiting faculty in both local and foreign affiliated Universities.
Her research interests centers around Digital Marketing, Strategic Marketing, Technology Management, Tourism and Hospitality Marketing, Strategic Management, and Entrepreneurship. Her research works were published in leading international journals, including Tourism Management, Journal of Strategic Marketing, International Journal of Hospitality Management, and Journal of Family Business Management. She also has received numerous international awards for her research and publications, including best paper awards at the 2nd International Conference on Governance, Management & Social Innovation, Indonesia (2019), 8th International Conference of Asian Academy of Applied Business, Malaysia (2017), 1st Technology Innovation Management and Engineering Science International Conference, Thailand (2016) and 1st International Conference on Digital Marketing, Sri Lanka (2014). Moreover, Dr. Gamage has won a few local and international research grants, including Special COVID-19 Project Grants with China, Japan, South Korea, and the ASEAN Region by Leading House Asia, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and Postgraduate Research Grant by the University Grants Commission, Sri Lanka (2014 – 2016). She is currently an editor of the South Asian Journal of Marketing published by the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing in collaboration with Emerald Publishing. She also serves as a member of the editorial board/ review panel of numerous journals and international conferences, including the Middle East Journal of Management, Asian Journal of Management Studies, and Colombo Business Journal.
Digital Marketing, Strategic Marketing, Technology Management, Tourism and Hospitality Marketing, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship
International Projects
2020-2021: Co Investigator -Entrepreneurial strategy making in response to COVID-19: A comparative study of Swiss and Japanese service firms funded by the Special COVID-19 Project Grants with China, Japan, South Korea, and the ASEAN Region by Leading House Asia, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
ARTICLES IN INDEXED JOURNALS (INDEXED IN WEB OF SCIENCE, SSCI, SCOPUS, ABDC)
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