Kumudinei Dissanayake

Kumudinei Dissanayake
University of Colombo · Department of Management and Organization Studies

PhD (Meiji, Japan), MBA (Meiji, Japan), MBA (Colombo, Sri Lanka), BCom (Special) Honours (Colombo, Sri Lanka)

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Introduction
Current research interests: Green practices in SMEs; Women entrepreneurs; HR Strategies in the pandemic

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Publications (35)
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Apparel and textile manufacturers should enhance their operational performance in order to supply high-quality goods in shorter lead times. This requirement is met by the introduction of lean utilization. However, the mere implementation of lean does not result in improved operational performance. The present study examines the impact of lean utili...
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Equity has become a fundamental concern in contemporary discussions on legal and socio-economic aspects of property rights. From the legal perspective, equity is seen as a reflection of distributive justice and it is taken as a matter of political deliberation on socio-economic grounds, while leaving the accomplishment of equity standards totally t...
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Apparel manufacturing companies should enhance operational performance in order to deliver high quality products in lesser lead times. Lean utilization is introduced to meet this requirement. However, mere implementation of lean does not lead to higher operational performance. Present study examines the impact of lean utilization on operational per...
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This chapter explores the transferability of indigenous knowledge to contemporary context in the form of values to address common criticisms surrounding public administrative system (PAS) in Sri Lanka, such as bribery, ineffectiveness, harassment, and nepotism. It is difficult to detach indigenous knowledge and history from Buddhist philosophy in S...
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This research aims to study the Green Supply Chain Management Practices (GSCMPs) adopted and the challenges encountered in achieving a closed-loop supply chain in apparel manufacturing companies in Sri Lanka. By adopting a deductive approach and quantitative survey method and using a self-administered questionnaire, the study collects data from 102...
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Implementation of lean practices creates multiple benefits as depicted in literature. However, the experiences of implementing lean practices in manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), in Sri Lanka, remain unexplored. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which manufacturing SMEs use lean practices and their accrued...
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Given the diverse conceptualisations used in the measurement of organisational value congruence (OVC), the purpose of this paper is to propose an integrated typology of measurement criteria — as a methodological and measurement guideline — that can be employed in operationalising the measurement of OVC. Based on a review of over forty empirical art...
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This study examines factors that determine green practice adoption by small and medium scale manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) located in urban areas of Sri Lanka. The determinants include technological factors, organizational factors, business environments, and environmental attitudes and awareness. A questionnaire survey on the green practice adop...
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This study examines the direct and indirect effects of informal-sector micro-entrepreneurs’ political and business connections on their self-efficacy and firm performance via the mediating role of perceived support from the institutional environment in an emerging economy, Sri Lanka. The findings using matched survey data from 635 entrepreneurs and...
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Small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) encounter numerous challenges in adopting sustainability practices. Among them, institutional environmental challenges have been critical for SMEs. Referring to institutional perspective, present study examines the challenges encountered by SMEs in adopting sustainability practices from three dimensions of...
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Scholars highlight the lack of preparations for unexpected shocks of employment and human resources all over the world, while stressing its possible adverse impacts on work organizations, employees and the economy. Given the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic threat and the dearth of clear findings on how human resource (HR) departments and the HR profes...
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Human Resources in an organization are the type of resources that possess the ability to make decisions, the ability to create and innovate, and the ability to generate and enhance a sustainable competitive advantage. Hence, managing Human Resources strategically has been critical. Similarly, measuring the practices of strategic human resource mana...
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The aim of the present chapter is to explore the values prevailed in ancient public administrative organization of Sri Lanka with special attention on the spirituality of these values. In order to achieve this aim, a qualitative inquiry is carried out in an exploratory approach. Secondary data including archival documents, research publications, bo...
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Adopting green practices in the manufacturing sector has become a requirement for achieving sustainability goals. Even though manufacturing small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) play a major role in the industrial sector in Sri Lanka, their contribution towards reaching a green economy is not well identified. This kind of identification needs a...
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Green manufacturing Going "Green" has become the newest trend in many sectors and disciplines. As far as Sri Lanka is concerned various programs have been conducted frequently with a view to popularizing this concept and encouraging green practices. The term "Green" has been used as a more or less interchangeable term with “sustainability" which en...
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Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs) led by women play a pivotal role in the developing economies. Nonetheless, extant research evince that Asian women-led SMEs and/or women entrepreneurs are still not performing up to their full potential. A range of factors, including institutional environmental forces, play a key role in impeding or expedit...
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Public sector management in Sri Lanka has a long history which goes centuries beyond colonial administration. With the introduction of the colonial administrative system, drastic changes were made in the traditional indigenous public management mechanism that existed in pre-colonial Sri Lanka, resulting in extensive modifications in the human resou...
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Despite women`s enormous involvement in economic activities through Small and Mediumscale Enterprises (SMEs), their progress has been relativelyslow and the macro environmental influences impeding women-led SMEs have been numerous. These impediments vary at different life cycle stages of the women-led business. As informed by life cycle stage theor...
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Operational level workers constitute an active and energetic workforce from which leaders emerge in organizations. Existing theories support the view that leadership is constructed by self and others. However, the process through which leaders emerge at operational level exists as an unattended agenda in leadership research. Thus, the purpose of th...
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This study examines the emotional intelligence (EI) of nurses by differentiating inter-personal and intra-personal dimensions, and explores the measures taken by them to maintain emotional stability. Further, it investigates the relationship of demographic factors (age, gender and year of experience) of nurses with their emotional stability. The ca...
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The Practice of Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) has become more important to strategic management, largely as a result of its role in providing competitive advantage and the rush to competitiveness. Existing literature reveals that it is critical to address the research issue of why the practice of SHRM should integrate with Organization...
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The Practice of Strategic Human Resource Management has become more important to strategic management, largely as a result of its role in providing competitive advantage and the rush to competitiveness. Existing literature reveals that it is critical to address the research issue of why the practice of SHRM should integrate with Organizational Stra...
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Accrual accounting practices in private sector and cash accounting practices in public sector are unconsciously institutionalized. However, in the recent past the Association of Public Finance Accountants of Sri Lanka, which became the public sector wing of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka in 2012, has initiated accrual accountin...
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Sajeevanie, TL, Opatha HHDNP, Dissanayake K. 2015. Integration between Practice of Strategic Human Resource Management and Organizational Strategy Process: View Points from CEOs and Heads of HR in Sri Lankan Firms. Colombo Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Research. 2(1):136-163. Export
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Atypical patterns of work behaviour and changing expectations of young generations at workplace have exhibited the need of deviating from traditional practices for achieving better performance through managing youth. This study explores and unveils such practices in a Sri Lankan organization in the labour-intensive textile industry. Using the case...
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Sri Lanka as a developing economy that achieved gender equity in education and a higher literacy rate (both adult and youth) in the South Asian region still records a low labor force participation and high unemployment rate of females when compared to their male counterparts. With the suggestion of existing literature on the non-conventional models...
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This study aimed to conceptualize the formation of organizational structures from the constructionist perspective. Avoiding the extremisms in equilibrium-and process-based theories, it adopts a recursivity-based approach, and draws most of its theoretical foundation from autopoietic systems theory. This study finds that organizations possess a "sys...
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This study is based on the understanding that the competitive job requirements of organisations, social trends demanding loosely bound careers, and the resulting challenges for mentors in developing careers with their protégés suggest a constructive nature of mentor-protégé relationships for organisations in the future. The premise was that the res...

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