http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/10557 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:59:51 GMT 2026-01-07T03:59:51Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4135 Role of Organisational Culture in Open Innovation: An Empirical Study of Service Sector Organisations in Sri Lanka Kariyapperuma, K.A.S.K. Innovation underpins the process of bringing novel products and services to market and is critical to a firm's viability, competitive advantage and performance. Open innovation has been proposed as a new paradigm for the management of innovation. Success in this open innovation paradigm offers great benefits to business organisations. Many firms have succeeded in the open innovation paradigm but failures have also been reported. Being a new area of research, not much is known about the factors affecting open innovation. In view of this, the current research was conducted with the aim to study the effects of organisational culture on open innovation. The main purpose of the study was to identify organisational culture types which enable and retard both in-bound open innovation and out-bound open innovation. Cross-sectional data were collected using the survey method from 124 middle and top managers working in finance and information technology sectors in Sri Lanka. The data analysis has been done using the statistical software packages of SPSS and AMOS. Both cluster analysis method and hierarchical multiple regressions were employed to test the hypothesised relationships. Highly integrative culture was found to relate positively to in-bound open innovation. No evidence of a significant relationship between highly integrative organisational culture and outbound open innovation was found. Hierarchy culture related negatively to both in-bound open innovation and out-bound open innovation. This research paper is probably the first empirical study which investigates the role of organisational culture in open innovation in the Sri Lankan context. Practical implications for the managers are given and suggestions are offered for future research building on the findings of this study. Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4135 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4134 Values and Diversity of Organisational Work Ethicality: Lessons Learnt from Sri Lankan Entrepreneurs Senadheera, G.D.V.R.; Karuaratne, H.D. The aim of this paper is to examine values as a component of organisational work ethicality, uncovering the contextual realities of values and explore the diversity of work ethicality in the entrepreneurial context in Sri Lanka. Organisational work ethicality is explained through egoistic work ethicality, utilitarian work ethicality and deontological work ethicality. With a view to get a deeper understanding of the diversity of organisational work ethicality, a qualitative approach is adopted. Twelve entrepreneurs were selected for in-depth interviews. A thematic analysis was carried out for field notes with the support of NVivo 6 version. Findings of this study reveal that the entrepreneurial thinking and their interpretations derived different social meanings of organisational work ethicality. The final outcome shows that rather than single dominant work ethicality, a combination of work ethicalities was preferred by most of the entrepreneurs. Within this mix of ethicalities, deontological ethicality and egoistic work ethicality seem to be equally practised by the entrepreneurs. The utilitarian ethicality seems to be practised at a minimum level. As a result, the implicational value of this study lies on at the organisational level and policy making level to rethink and reestablish a mechanism to improve ethical aspects of the businesses in order to maximise social well-being while doing the right things for the society and strengthening shareholders’ protection Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4134 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4133 Remittances from International Labour Migrants and the Standard of Living of the Left behind Households in Sri Lanka Siriwardhane, D.; Amaratunge, S.; De Silva, I. This study aims to examine the effect of remittances on the standard of living of the remittance receiving households in Sri Lanka. Survey data were analyzed using thematic analysis and stratified matching method in propensity score matching. It was found that, a large majority of labour migrants remit money to their households left behind. However, the volume of remittances varies with the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the labour migrants and their households. Furthermore, it was found that remittance receiving households enjoy income from diversified sources. Average treatment effects estimated through stratified matching analysis reveal that remittance receivers enjoy a higher level of income and higher standard of living compared to their non-remittance receiving counterparts. Improvement of the income by the remittances varies with the income quintile of the households. Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4133 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z