http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/4674 9th INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE OF MANAGEMENT RESEARCHERS (ICMR 2024) “Synergy in Management Research: Bridging AI and Human Intelligence” 2026-04-19T15:51:03Z http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/4831 9th Interdisciplinary Conference of Management Researchers (ICMR 2024) 2024-11-27T00:00:00Z http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/4783 EXPLORING THE PUSH AND PULL FACTORS INFLUENCING INTRAPRENEURSHIP IN SRI LANKAN SMES: FACTORS, FRAMEWORK, AND IMPLICATIONS Thanushan, T Corporate entrepreneurs work towards solutions to social and environmental problems, while intrapreneurs are individuals within the company creating innovative start-up initiatives. Large companies tend to focus on corporate entrepreneurship, whereas small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often prioritize intrapreneurship. Previous studies have primarily focused on the factors influencing the development of corporate entrepreneurship in large-scale firms and SMEs and revealed that SMEEs in Sri Lanka struggle with incorporating intrapreneurship due to financial strain, risk aversion, change resistance culture, and structural issues. This research aims to investigate the push and pull factors influencing the implementation of intrapreneurship in SMEs in Sri Lanka. Specific objectives are to explore these factors and develop a framework for intrapreneurship that facilitates the development and use of intrapreneurship for firm growth. This qualitative study was conducted in Sri Lanka to examine the push and pull factors influencing intrapreneurship in SMEs From January to May 2024. Fifteen SME owners from different provinces across Sri Lanka were selected through purposive sampling to ensure the appropriateness of the participants to the research questions. This research examines the critical factors that foster intrapreneurship among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Sri Lanka. The study explored several push and pull factors, including internal consistency, innovative approaches, customization, resource constraints, emerging new markets, new funding support, competitive advantages, technological advances, and fostering learning environments. Through thematic analysis, the research developed themes and frameworks for intrapreneurship. Theoretically, this study identifies key push and pull factors such as internal consistency, innovative approaches, customization, resource constraints, emerging new markets, new funding support, competitive advantages, technological advances, and fostering a learning environment to promote intrapreneurship culture within SMEs. 2024-11-27T00:00:00Z http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/4781 ENTREPRENEURIAL CULTURE AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF SMALL AND MEDIUM- SIZED TOURIST HOTELS IN SRI LANKA Rathnayake, N.D The tourism industry of Sri Lanka is inevitably dominated by small and medium sized enterprises. Notwithstanding the poor development of economic health, accommodation and food service activities have historically shown a positive sectoral distribution. Moreover, small and medium-sized tourist hotels (SMTHs) are currently recognized as one of the fastest growing segments. Hence, an argument can be made that such hotels have a substantial impact on the sociocultural and socioeconomic development of Sri Lanka. As a distinct cultural typology, entrepreneurial culture has not been commonly exposed to academic research. Moreover, few scholars have previously investigated the correlation between entrepreneurial culture (EC) and business performance (BP) and the effect of EC on BP and yielded positive results. Thus, the purpose of this study is to uncover the impact of EC on the BP of the SMTHs in Sri Lanka and the relationship between the two variables. This study is a survey-based, cross sectional quantitative study, and the SPSS Statistics 20.0 software package was relied upon for data analysis. Of the 159 classified tourist hotels listed with the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority, 68 and 59 one-and two-star hotels have been identified as the sampling frame and sample, respectively. Simple random sampling was employed for data collection. A positive and moderate correlation has been recorded, indicating a statistically significant linear relationship between EC and BP. Moreover, 33.3% of the variation in BP is explained by the movements in EC. Perusing the findings, a conducive entrepreneurial culture improves the business performance of SMTHs by anticipating new market trends and favorable opportunities. 2024-11-27T00:00:00Z http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/4780 DOES THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM INFLUENCE THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION SERVICES FIRMS IN BANGLADESH? A MEDIATED MODERATION APPROACH Hossen, S.S; Alam, M.N; Nabi, M.N.U The software and information technology (IT) sector of Bangladesh has been rapidly growing in recent years, and the government has declared it as a thrust subsector of its economy, targeting USD 5.00 billion in export earnings by 2025, where the entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) plays a pivotal role. However, there is a lack of explanatory studies on the relationship between the entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) and the internationalization of software and information technology/services firms in Bangladesh. Based on this fact, this paper investigates how the entrepreneurial ecosystem influences the internationalization of software and information services firms in Bangladesh with a mediated moderation approach. The study was explanatory, where the data was collected through a structured interview schedule. All the constructs were developed following well-established and standard literature, and a 5-point Likert scale was used. A total of 239 small and medium-sized software and information services firms were interviewed, adapting the convenience sampling technique. The structural equation modelling (SEM) technique based on the partial least square (PLS) method was used to capture the influence of the entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) on firms’ internationalization (INT), incorporating the mediating variables like environmental munificence (EM) and dynamic capabilities (DC) and the moderating variables like trade policy (TP) and resource orchestration (RO) using the SMART PLS 4.1.0.0 software. After checking and satisfying all sorts of validity and reliability criteria of the measurement model, the structural model of the study revealed that the entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) has a statistically significant positive direct effect on firms’ internationalization (EE->INT). Besides, it was also found that there are statistically significant positive indirect effects of entrepreneurial ecosystem on internationalization via environmental munificence (EM) and dynamic capabilities (DC) (EE->EM->DC->INT; EE->EM->INT; and EE->DC >INT), meaning that environmental munificence and dynamic capabilities play a partial mediating role between entrepreneurial ecosystem and internationalization. However, the moderating role of the trade policy (TP) between the entrepreneurial ecosystem and internationalization (TPxEE->INT)and resource orchestration (RO) between dynamic capabilities (DC) and internationalization (ROxDC->INT) was found to be insignificant. Therefore, the study concludes that the entrepreneurial ecosystem influences the firms’ internationalization directly and indirectly through mediators like environmental munificence and dynamic capabilities without any moderation effects. Thus, the findings provide valuable insights specific to the internationalization of Bangladesh's software and information services firms and contribute to a broader understanding of how the entrepreneurial ecosystem influences the internationalization of firms in other industries nationally and globally. In addition, this study fulfils the need for an explanatory study on the entrepreneurial ecosystem and internationalization of small and medium firms. 2024-11-27T00:00:00Z