Sashika Abeydeera Manoratne

University of Colombo · Department of Management and Organization Studies

As one of the signatories of the United Nations' mandate on Agenda 2030 for sustainable development, Sri Lanka shows much commitment to collaborating with both local and international institutions. However, most of the development policies adopted by such institutions fail to address the diversity of context-related issues prevalent in the local se...

This review article explores how teaching and learning approaches to sustainability in higher education need to be transformed to suit the Business and Management Studies context in Sri Lanka. This is imperative in light of the unprecedented demands of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite a recent proliferation of programs on sustainability in higher edu...

This paper investigates how organisations with a Buddhist ethos make sense of different institutional logics in pursuing sustainability. Interviews and documentary evidence from two not-for-profit and two forprofit organisations in Sri Lanka are analysed. The founders and current leaders of all organisations are found to play a key role in promotin...

Purpose In recognition of the potential for Buddhism to advance sustainability, this paper aims to investigate whether Buddhism appears to be informing the sustainability practices of corporations within a particular national context. Corporate sustainability reports are used as a site of analysis. Design/methodology/approach Sixteen corporate s...

This paper examines how sustainability managers in a Buddhist country context make sense of sustainability and the extent to which they see themselves as able to enact their private moral positions at work. Analysis of interviews with 25 managers involved with sustainability initiatives in Sri Lankan organizations reveals differences between privat...

This paper provides a systematic review of literature relating to Buddhism, sustainability and organizational practices. How extant literature acknowledges Buddhism informing sustainability as an alternative to current business practices predominantly governed by an economic rationale is examined. Thirty journal articles and 20 books/book chapters...

This thesis investigates the potential and challenges of Buddhism in informing organisations’ pursuit of sustainability. Buddhism is argued to enable possibilities for sustainability on a more systemic and spiritual level than a view of economic rationality that tends towards an entity and a materialistic focus. With a predominantly Buddhist popula...

This paper attempts to review literature in search of a home-grown solution to expand values to incorporate the natural environment as an important stakeholder in organizational decision making in order to promote environmental sustainability of Sri Lanka, which is country’s one of the Millennium Development Goals to be achieved in 2015. Major theo...

This paper presents a Corporate Environmental Leadership Model (CELM) in suit to the Sri Lankan business context, which has derived from the Environmental Leadership Model (ELM) originally developed by Flannery and May (1994). The CELM constitutes of 4 pillars: (1)moral norms and values for environmental responsibility that takes into account the e...