W. Tennakoon, A. Dilshani, P. Amarathunga, W. Wijethunga, S. Praveeni, W. Lasanthika
The Great Resignation, or the Big Quit, shook the world of work, leaving it questionable whether organizations could find and retain the necessary talents. Nevertheless, the shrinking Transition to Entrepreneurship (TE) demonstrated that developing countries were less affected by this massive attrition wave. However, in the context of developing countries, the causes of thinner TE remain unknown. The current study investigated the perceived barriers to TE in the Sri Lankan context. The present study followed a quantitative approach to test the extent to which demographic, environmental, motivational, human capital, and behavioral factors are perceived as barriers to TE intention. Participants in the field survey provided the data based on a psychometric measure with a seven-point response scale. Structured Equation Modelling (SEM) analyzed the data. According to the findings, employees in Sri Lankan context are more likely to avoid transitioning from their current employment to entrepreneurship because they perceive behavioral, human capital, and demographic factors as barriers to TE. However, the prospective entrepreneurs in the Sri Lanka did not perceive motivational and environmental factors as significant barriers to TE. The implications suggest modeling TE by incorporating the identified roadblocks to TE to predict entrepreneurial penetration in developing countries.
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R. N. Wijethunga, J. Ranasinghe, G. H. V. Harshani
This research explores the gender equality in the hospitality sector with the support of the Glass Ceiling Effect and how it applies to Women's Career Progress. Women's Career Progress. Women's career progress and women's empowerment being the dependent variable and mediator respectively, this study employed five independent variables as the key predictors of glass ceilings. Simple random sampling procedure was applied to select 123 respondents and SPSS and Smart PLS software were used to analyze the data. Research findings revealed that there is no impact of internal job mobility and organizational culture on women empowerment at 3 and above-star hotels in the Sri Lankan context due to having less P-Values than 0.05. Female representation in hotels was lower (7.40%) than male representation. By delegation of authority, fair performance reviews, training and incentives, scholarships, and flexible work arrangements are all ways to improve the qualification credentials of female employees.
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Open innovation can be considered as the critical branch of innovation management. It is an emerging field of research that is important for achieving sustainable competitive advantages through enhancing firm performance. This study aims to identify the research gaps in the effect of open innovation and firm performance based on the systematic literature review process. Depending on the systematic approach current study expects to find out research gaps and it targets to develop a conceptual framework to minimize the identified research gaps in the effect of open innovation and firm performance for future empirical investigations. An extensive literature review was implemented to achieve the research objectives through the adaptation of the desk research strategy. The systematic literature review process explored the effect of open innovation and firm performance was not entirely positive. Further, it discovered the three research gaps between open innovation and firm performance mainly. A conceptual framework was developed to minimize the identified research gaps by identifying a new variable to the established relationship. The literature survey and logical arguments provide a solid foundation to build up the conceptual framework. It was proposed to be tested empirically in the research context of listed companies in Sri Lanka by future researchers.
{"title":"The Effect of Open Innovation on Firm Performance: Research Gaps","authors":"M. G. M. Dilrukshi, C. N. Wickramasinghe","doi":"10.4038/wjm.v14i1.7599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/wjm.v14i1.7599","url":null,"abstract":"Open innovation can be considered as the critical branch of innovation management. It is an emerging field of research that is important for achieving sustainable competitive advantages through enhancing firm performance. This study aims to identify the research gaps in the effect of open innovation and firm performance based on the systematic literature review process. Depending on the systematic approach current study expects to find out research gaps and it targets to develop a conceptual framework to minimize the identified research gaps in the effect of open innovation and firm performance for future empirical investigations. An extensive literature review was implemented to achieve the research objectives through the adaptation of the desk research strategy. The systematic literature review process explored the effect of open innovation and firm performance was not entirely positive. Further, it discovered the three research gaps between open innovation and firm performance mainly. A conceptual framework was developed to minimize the identified research gaps by identifying a new variable to the established relationship. The literature survey and logical arguments provide a solid foundation to build up the conceptual framework. It was proposed to be tested empirically in the research context of listed companies in Sri Lanka by future researchers.","PeriodicalId":202867,"journal":{"name":"Wayamba Journal of Management","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132754025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This research focuses on the main theme of the determinants of self-efficacy on undergraduate academic achievement, particularly considering the Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University, Sri Lanka. Self-efficacy refers to people who believe in their own capabilities and abilities to accomplish a given task. When it comes to undergraduates in the university system, they are valuable stakeholders. Nowadays, the student-centered learning approach is practiced by universities, it is to be responsible for their own pedagogical progress. Their self-efficacy helps them to manifest themselves and achieve their academic performance. Therefore, self-efficacy plays a vital role in their academic achievement. Identify the objectives of this research, to discover the relationship between self-efficacy and academic achievement, to what extent does self-efficacy influence on academic achievement and to recognize the attitudes that play a role in mediating the relationship between self-efficacy and academic achievement. A particularly representative sample was selected from undergraduate management students at the Trincomalee Campus. The selected sample size is 234. Conceptual variables cover performance accomplishment, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, physiological & emotional state, attitudes, and academic achievement. The researcher use the Sobel test for the data analysis. Based on the results, the main influencing factors are verbal persuasion and performance accomplishment. Academic achievement is not significantly related to physiological & emotional state and vicarious experience.
{"title":"Determinants of Self-Efficacy on Undergraduate Academic Achievement","authors":"S. Priyadharsan, A. Saravanabawan","doi":"10.4038/wjm.v14i1.7597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/wjm.v14i1.7597","url":null,"abstract":"This research focuses on the main theme of the determinants of self-efficacy on undergraduate academic achievement, particularly considering the Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University, Sri Lanka. Self-efficacy refers to people who believe in their own capabilities and abilities to accomplish a given task. When it comes to undergraduates in the university system, they are valuable stakeholders. Nowadays, the student-centered learning approach is practiced by universities, it is to be responsible for their own pedagogical progress. Their self-efficacy helps them to manifest themselves and achieve their academic performance. Therefore, self-efficacy plays a vital role in their academic achievement. Identify the objectives of this research, to discover the relationship between self-efficacy and academic achievement, to what extent does self-efficacy influence on academic achievement and to recognize the attitudes that play a role in mediating the relationship between self-efficacy and academic achievement. A particularly representative sample was selected from undergraduate management students at the Trincomalee Campus. The selected sample size is 234. Conceptual variables cover performance accomplishment, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, physiological & emotional state, attitudes, and academic achievement. The researcher use the Sobel test for the data analysis. Based on the results, the main influencing factors are verbal persuasion and performance accomplishment. Academic achievement is not significantly related to physiological & emotional state and vicarious experience.","PeriodicalId":202867,"journal":{"name":"Wayamba Journal of Management","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124643604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The primary focus of this study is to identify the decisive factors that affect customer satisfaction with Mobile Banking Services. The identified independent variables of the study are reliability, efficiency, flexibility, easy-to-navigate, and trust. Primary data was collected through a structured questionnaire from 120 mobile bank users of Commercial Banks in Sri Lanka. The study population was mobile banking users of commercial banks in the Colombo District of Sri Lanka. The hypotheses have been tested through multiple linear regression and the correlation coefficient has been used to identify the relationship between the dependent variable and independent variables. The findings of the study show that there is a statistically significant impact of the reliability, efficiency, easy-to-navigate, and trust dimensions of mobile banking services on customer satisfaction whereas flexibility has a statistically insignificant impact. Easy to navigate and reliability were the most influential dimensions compared to the rest of the mobile banking dimensions and the researcher recommended that commercial banks should expand the web and mobile app quality in order to achieve higher customer satisfaction with mobile banking services.
{"title":"The Impact of Mobile Banking Services on the Customer Satisfaction of \u0000Commercial Banks in Sri Lanka","authors":"S. Dias, W. D. M. B. K. Dissanayake","doi":"10.4038/wjm.v14i1.7593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/wjm.v14i1.7593","url":null,"abstract":"The primary focus of this study is to identify the decisive factors that affect customer satisfaction with Mobile Banking Services. The identified independent variables of the study are reliability, efficiency, flexibility, easy-to-navigate, and trust. Primary data was collected through a structured questionnaire from 120 mobile bank users of Commercial Banks in Sri Lanka. The study population was mobile banking users of commercial banks in the Colombo District of Sri Lanka. The hypotheses have been tested through multiple linear regression and the correlation coefficient has been used to identify the relationship between the dependent variable and independent variables. The findings of the study show that there is a statistically significant impact of the reliability, efficiency, easy-to-navigate, and trust dimensions of mobile banking services on customer satisfaction whereas flexibility has a statistically insignificant impact. Easy to navigate and reliability were the most influential dimensions compared to the rest of the mobile banking dimensions and the researcher recommended that commercial banks should expand the web and mobile app quality in order to achieve higher customer satisfaction with mobile banking services.","PeriodicalId":202867,"journal":{"name":"Wayamba Journal of Management","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114350280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}