Management, Social Sciences & Humanities: Recent submissions
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A Study on the Acquisition of English as Second Language at the Critical Age
(2015)This research studied about acquisition of second language (hereinafter referred to as L2) at the critical age. Critical age plays a crucial role in Language Acquisition. Critical period (hereinafter referred to as CP) ... -
Determinants of job satisfaction of Sri Lankan seafarers and tendency of selecting shore based jobs
(2015)Shipping as an integrated component in larger goods movement system and is a major traditional industry which has been changed rapidly with globalisation. So job satisfaction of seafarers is considered as an important ... -
Explorations of factors affecting happiness of Sri Lankans
(2015)Presently multidimensional measures of quality of life and happiness levels and well being are increasingly discussed and are considered as significant parameters in measuring a country’s development. While there are many ... -
A Multivariate Co-integration Analysis of Air Passenger Movement: Empirical Evidence from in Sri Lanka
(2015)Air transportation has been recognized as a key industry in Sri Lanka since most of tourists travel by air and tourism plays a vital role in the economy. The purpose of this research is to test the causality between air ... -
Motives for status consumption: An empirical investigation based on semi-urban women consumers in supermarket settings in Sri Lanka
(2015)Consumption of goods and services for the sake of showing status – commonly referred to as ‘status consumption’, has become a persistent phenomenon in many societies, and it is remarked that urban women, in particular, ... -
South Asia Regional Integration and trade agreements on Economic Security
(2015)South Asia has almost one half of the world’s poor even though it has only 20% of the world’s population and South Asia has always provided highly contrasting economic images. It is a land of fabulous wealth and of extreme ... -
A Review of Research on Green Logistics Distribution Practices
(2015)Due to increased focus on environmental pollution through transport activities, organizations, transport providers and governments have taken various initiatives towards reducing the environmental impact of transport and ... -
Strategies to Promote Solar Power Energy: A Review of Literature
(2015)Solar Energy is a clean renewable resource with zero emission. With the recent development taken place globally, solar energy has the potentiality of expanding into large scale operations and fulfils the industrial and ... -
Eight noble of path as a mean professional inculcation and its influence in making a new face of national empowerment
(2015)Inculcation of professionalism is one of very much concerned topic in modern world. Burning issues come across in day to day life from its every aspects as societal, cultural, economic human behavior needs a regenerative ... -
What they want and what they receive on the way of reaching regional development in Sri Lanka
(2015)The concept of regional development was rooted in Sri Lanka’s development agenda only after 1970s with respect to resolve the problems of unemployment, social unrest, the rising cost of living, declining of local production ... -
The Impact of Leader Member Exchange (LMX) on Job Burnout
(2015)Job burnout is a state of exhaustion where one is cynical about the value of his/her occupation and doubtful about his/her ability to perform. At the organizational level burnout has been linked to costly outcomes, including ... -
Time Series Approaches to Forecast Air Freight Imports and Exports: Empirical from Sri Lanka.
(2015)This paper establishes an approach to forecast Air freight exports and imports volumes in Sri Lanka for the period of 2008-2013. Further the paper also applies Granger Causality to test the causality between air cargo ... -
A study of developing Colombo Port as a major multi country consolidation(MCC) hub in South East Asia region with the help of improving the effectiveness of the MCC activities
(2015)Sri Lanka is involving in handling transshipment and Multi Country Consolidation (MCC) practices at Colombo port during last two decades of time. This research was carried out base on the question of how could be Sri Lanka ... -
Livelihood Development by Investing Remittances of Rural Expatriates Through Sampath Bank: A Case Study In Galewela
(2015)Rural economy is another developing area. Rural people do not utilize these remittances for productive purposes as they are poor with low household income. In this study, utilization patterns of remittances by the rural ... -
Assessing Customer Relationship Management Strategies for Creating Customer Loyalty in Insurance Industry
(2015)In a strongly competitive and rapidly changing business environment, the need to be market focused and forming strong relationships with customers is more critical than any other time in the past. Today, organizations have ... -
Administration in relevant time society specified in Kōlam (Sinhala folk drama)
(2015)There are various forms of folk drama such as Kōlam, Sokari and Nādagam. Ancient time these are mostly all night performers mixed with satire, songs and dance. Kōlam is type of folk drama is found mostly in the low country. ... -
Analysis of Green Warehouse Practices in Sri Lanka
(2015)This research has been conducted to analyse the green warehouse practices in both public and private sectors in Sri Lanka. The study has been carried out based..on research questions, where the main question could be ... -
Professional Ethics and its application to Customer Relationship Management (A Study based on selected leading Insurance Organization in the Colombo District)
(2015)Due to the more and more fierce competition in today’s business, many companies are required to build long-term profitable relationship with customers. Therefore, concept of Professional Ethics will be more vital for any ... -
A Survey on Factors Affecting Supply Chain Management Effectiveness: A Case of Textile Sector in Sri Lanka
(2015)The modern world is streaming towards the simplification of processes, reengineering and reformations of management to increase the effectiveness of manufacturing, thus practices innovative concepts, state of art technologies, ... -
A Methodology to Estimate Value of Time of Commuters – Evidence from Cities between Fort and Moratuwa (Literature Review)
(2015)Value of time (VOT) measures is valuable in a wide range of public transport policy and planning applications. Public transportation infrastructure projects can be justified through the quantification of the generalized ...