Wasanthi Madurapperuma

University of Kelaniya · Department of Accountancy

The researcher found a timely need to assess Sri Lankan Rice Farmers' Sustainable Agriculture (SA) potential, their readiness to adopt more organic-centric farming, and the institutional help they receive for such adoption. Since no straightforward assessment method has been found in the literature, this paper describes how the researcher developed...

Purpose GDP growth, money growth and inflation are essential to an economy's macroeconomic stability and have a direct impact on the policymaking process. Sri Lanka is currently concerned about high inflation. Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. Inflation has been caused by monetary policy in several nations. According to the economic theories of K...

Purpose This study aims to examine the short- and long-term equilibrium relationship between All share price index (ASPI), macroeconomic variables and the economic crisis in Sri Lanka. Design/methodology/approach Monthly time series data for inflation (CPI), industrial production (IP), an exchange rate (EX), an interest rate (TB), short-term inter...

The advancement of digital technologies created enterprises to scale up their business operation across borders. Even though digitalization brings huge benefits to the economy in transacting via cyberspace resulted artificially reduce the taxable income or shit their profit to the low tax jurisdiction in which little or no economic activities are p...

Purpose: Digitalization transforms business processes and benefits enterprises to operate across borders. As a result of digitalization, the business operates internationally through micro firms. These micro firms are smaller entrepreneurial firms identified as micro-multinational (mMNEs) presence in different countries used as a vehicle to artific...

Taxation is a complex and most important fiscal tool used by the government to balance fiscal efficiency and the country's social wellbeing. As a result of the fourth industrial revolution, digital disruption makes technology an inseparable tool across all economic sections. This study investigates how the use of technology in taxation influences t...

The novel Corona Virus, COVID19 has significantly impacted all most all economies in the world. Today (i.e. 27th September 2020) there are around 32.4 million confirmed cases including one million death (WHO, 2020). The virus is reportedly spreading in 210 countries (EDB, 2020). It caused USD 4.1 trillion loss to the global economy in the past six...

Air travel growth is one of the notable responsibilities of a government specifically for an economy which depends heavily on tourism. Air travel strengthens destinations by enhancing connectivity, arrivals and other tourism reactions therefore it is recognized as a medium of revenue generation, work opportunity creation and sustainable business de...

Today’s economic growth is not promising without air transport, up-to-date airports infrastructure, efficient and safe airline services and international air transport networks. According to WB [32], 40% of the world-wide tourists travel by air transport. The main aim of this study is to analyze the literatures of air transport and economic growth...

The focus of this study is mainly on providing evidence of perceptions towards the implementation of SLFRS, the way financial statements are used, what challenges and obstacles are encountered and what are the perceived benefits after the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs). Empirical evidence has been gathered through i...

The exchange rate regime and foreign policy is an important measure of the macroeconomic management in endeavoring for economic development through improving the performance of export of the country. Many scholars pay their attention to study the impact of exchange rate volatility on the export growth. However, these studies do not provide a defini...

Abstract Research on intrapreneurship become a growing field of interest during past decades. However the significance of this stocks lacks systematization and categorization. Therefore it is needed collecting current stock of knowledge in this field. The paper present systematic literature review of intrapreneurship development related to organiz...

The advancement of digital technologies has created enterprises to scale up their businesses operation across borders. Even though digitalization brings huge benefits to economies in transacting via cyber space it resulted artificially reduce the taxable income or shift their profits to low-tax jurisdictions in which little or no economic activity...

Research on intrapreneurship become a growing field of interest during past decades. However, the significance of this stocks lacks systematization and categorization. Therefore it is needed collecting the current stock of knowledge in this field. The paper present systematic literature review of intrapreneurship development related to organization...

Email address: wasanthi@kln.ac.lk (M. W. Madurapperuma), lal@kln.ac.lk (P. M. C. Thilakerathne), imanawadu@uom.lk (I. N. Manawadu) Abstract: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play vital role in many countries including Sri Lanka, because of its role for the country's economic growth. This study discovers the level of awareness towards the importa...

It is broadly assumed that modest and stable inflation rate stimulates economic growth of a country. Modest inflation encourages savers, enhances investment and therefore speed ups economic growth of the country. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of inflation on economic growth in Sri Lanka for the period of 1988 . 2015 using the frame...

It is broadly assumed that modest and stable inflation rate stimulates economic growth of a country. Modest inflation encourages savers, enhances investment and therefore speed ups economic growth of the country. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of inflation on economic growth in Sri Lanka for the period of 1988 – 2015 using the frame...

Increasingly, internship has become an essential component of the undergraduate degree programmes. It provides students with a smooth transition from on-campus environment to the working environment. It is often viewed as a 'win-win' situation for both the intern and the intern's employers. Students are able to learn about the profession and gain p...

The purpose of this paper is to determine the formation of finance network of ethnic entrepreneurs and behaviour of this network on entrepreneurship. The study uses a purposive sampling method. The sample population was identified via developing contacts through the business community, advertisements in the local newspapers and respondents' referra...

This paper examines ethnic entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka and the UK by investigating the relationship between the characteristics of ethnic business entrepreneurs and their entrepreneurial experiences. What is worth noting in this study is comparative perspective of composition of networks across cultures. The research will discuss the key themes s...

The use of social network is considered an important development factor for the entreprneursial firm. Previous research has focused on the role of the entrepreneur in network building or structural characteristics of networks. This study address the different questions: Do different types of network positions influence differently on firm performan...