Rukmal Weerasinghe

University of Sri Jayewardenepura · Department of Entrepreneurship

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are critical to Sri Lanka’s economy, but their potential for internationalization remains underexplored. This study aims to identify the various antecedents of internationalization and the impact of identified antecedents on the internationalization of Sri Lankan SMEs. This study was conducted following a quantit...

Abstract Purpose This paper is part of the ERASMUS+-funded Strengthening University Enterprise Collaboration for Resilient Communities in Asia (SECRA) project. This study aims to map collaborative architecture between partner universities and the public/private sectors to provide a contextualised collaboration framework for disaster resilience (DR)...

Scholars have paid close attention to developing several theories and models for the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises. These theories and models explain the firm strategic directions and gradual process of international expansion. This theoretical literature review aims to comprehensively examine the wide array of literatu...

Scholars have paid close attention to developing several theories for internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises. These theories explain the firm strategic directions and the gradual process of international expansion. This theoretical literature review aims at comprehensively examining the wide array of literature relating to theor...

Innovation plays a prominent role in the contemporary world. It brings novel products and services to the market while exploring new ways of production, distribution, marketing and impacts all other aspects of organizations including human behaviour through hard as well as soft methods. Open innovation has been introduced as a new paradigm in innov...

Promoting entrepreneurship among undergraduates has become a national priority of many countries as it provides effective solutions for problems associated with unemployment and unrest among youth. Recent entrepreneurial initiatives have contributed to uplift the level of economic growth and living standards of many modern economies. With the promi...

This research study attempts to find out the undergraduate entrepreneurial intention among the final year Undergraduates of University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ), Sri Lanka and to suggest recommendations to improve the undergraduate entrepreneurial intention. 340 final year undergraduates from five Faculties (Faculty of Management Studies and Com...

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the mechanism of the front/back-office structure affecting new service development (NSD) performance and examine the role of knowledge transfer in the relationship between front/back-office structure and NSD. Background: The separation of front and back-office has become the prevailing trend...

The main aim of this research is to identify the factors that are affecting the success of Chinese small businesses which are currently operating in Sri Lanka. This study followed the ‘Investigation research model’ with the two main research aspects, ‘success of the Chinese small businesses in Sri Lanka’ and ‘affecting factors for the success’ as t...

China National Tourism Academy in 2016 records that Sri Lanka has been able to secure the 17th place among the top 20 most popular destinations by Chinese tourists while it is also recorded to be one of the dark-horse outbound destinations of Chinese travelers. Therefore, the paper aims to document the findings of an expert survey on the factors hi...

The University sector in the national innovation system (NIS) is considered as one of the key players which links new knowledge with the industry for the purpose of diffusing new knowledge for economic and social benefits through commercialization of products, services, processes and other artifacts. This paper inquires the role of Sri Lankan unive...

In latter part of the 1980s, the systematic view of innovation at the national level has attracted much attention. This systematic view has become a popular research theme all around the world at present. Freeman (1987) and Nelson (1993) are important contributors to the perspective of National Innovation System (NIS). The concept is mainly focused...

In latter part of the 1980s, the systematic view of innovation at the national level has attracted much attention. This systematic view has become a popular research theme all around the world at present. Freeman (1987) and Nelson (1993) are important contributors to the perspective of National Innovation System (NIS). The concept is mainly focused...

The University sector in the national innovation system (NIS) is considered as one of the key players which links new knowledge with the industry for the purpose of diffusing new knowledge for economic and social benefits through commercialization of products, services, processes and other artifacts. This paper inquires the role of Sri Lankan unive...

The University sector in the national innovation system (NIS) is considered as one of the key players which links new knowledge with the industry for the purpose of diffusing new knowledge for economic and social benefits through commercialization of products, services, processes and other artifacts. This paper inquires the role of Sri Lankan unive...

This research paper investigates the absorptive capacity of the manufacturing SMEs in the Western province of Sri Lanka. Present study attempts to understand application of the external linkages and information sources in the process of innovation by selected firms. A sample of 280 firms was selected using stratified random sampling from the data b...

This research paper investigates the absorptive capacity of the manufacturing SMEs in the Western province of Sri Lanka. The ability to absorb knowledge created by external organizations, which is affected by several factors, is considered as absorptive capacity. Past research indicates that the structures of communication between the external envi...

It is well accepted that SMEs in emerging economies significantly contribute to employment, GDP and the social well-being of people. However, a strategic approach to innovativeness is needed to achieve excellence in performance for global competitiveness. This paper provides the findings of a study carried out to explore the innovative behaviour of...

This conceptual paper aims to further clarify the idea of innovation paying attention to the innovation in developing countries where the results of innovation are still needed to be accelerated. Different approaches to describe the process of innovation have been employed herewith to justify that the ‘new to the world’ scientific or technological...