Browsing by Author "Saliya, C.A"

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Conquerors of poverty – a case study of Colombo slum dwellers
(Emerald Publishing, 2025-02-07) Nanayakkara Wasam Mudage, K; Weerasinghe, N; Madusanka, M; Saliya, C.A; Lokeshwara, A. A; Jayatissa, C. D
Purpose: While extensive research has explored poverty in various dimensions, there remains a notable dearth of studies focusing on success stories of slum dwellers overcoming adversity. This research seeks to address this gap by investigating the strategies employed by individuals to transcend poverty. Moreover, it evaluates the practicality and effectiveness of existing theories in real-world contexts through careful interpretation. Design/methodology/approach: Data were gathered from two distinct cases through comprehensive, in-depth interviews. These narratives were subjected to scrutiny employing the Description Analysis Interpretation method. Subsequent interpretation and theoretical exploration were guided by Bourdieu’s class theory. The overarching goal was to shed light on the remarkable journeys of specific slum residents who surpassed the constraints of poverty. This endeavor not only highlighted the practical efficacy of these theories but also underscored their relevance in illuminating real-world scenarios through interpretation. Findings: The findings underscore the capacity of slum dwellers to rise above poverty, thereby emphasizing the practical utility of specific theories aimed at poverty alleviation in elucidating their experiences. Notably, social capital, a cornerstone of Bourdieu’s class theory, emerges as equally pivotal as economic capital in shaping individuals' trajectories. Research limitations/implications: The study’s scope is confined to narratives within the Colombo slums, offering a platform for future researchers to extend their investigations beyond this context. By employing alternative methodologies and exploring diverse geographical regions, scholars can broaden their understanding of poverty alleviation strategies and their applicability across varied socioeconomic landscapes. This calls for wider research for comprehensive exploration and comprehension of poverty dynamics beyond singular locales. Practical implications: The study provides invaluable insights for policymakers, governmental bodies and nongovernmental organizations, urging them to reconsider and reformulate policies, educational strategies and community development programs tailored to the needs of slum dwellers and their children. These insights offer a pathway toward more effective interventions aimed at fostering sustainable upliftment within these marginalized communities. Originality/value: This research fills a critical gap in poverty literature by exploring success stories of slum dwellers overcoming adversity, an area often overlooked. It uniquely investigates the strategies these individuals employ to transcend poverty, offering fresh insights into the practical application of poverty alleviation theories. Utilizing Bourdieu’s class theory, the study highlights the importance of both social and economic capital in these success narratives. By focusing on real-life experiences, it underscores the relevance and utility of these theories in real-world contexts, enriching the theoretical discourse and providing valuable perspectives for policymakers and practitioners.Poverty
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Crisis and credit: tackling corporate NPLs in Sri Lanka
(Emerald Publishing, 2025-09-09) Weerasekara, K.C; Saliya, C.A; Lakmal, K.T.P; Medagedara, R.M
Purpose Explores strategies that private licensed commercial banks formulate to manage Non-performing Loans (NPLs) for struggling corporate borrowers under challenging economic conditions in Sri Lanka. This study critically evaluates traditional NPL management approaches and their obstacles, suggesting a unique framework to manage NPLs. Design/methodology/approach Study sampled five severely affected private licensed commercial banks listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE). Data is collected through semi-structured interviews, analyzed using Thematic Analysis and Grounded Theory techniques. The 20-in-depth interviews with bank professionals in corporate credit management form a theory. Findings Final theory emphasizes successful NPL resolving strategy entails the adaptive implementation of a systematic approach underpinned by strategic vigilance of banks, ensuring resilience and responsiveness to dynamic financial landscapes. Originality/value Study presents a unique holistic modern approach to managing NPLs challenging traditional reliance on the 5Cs framework. Study lightens paradoxes exist in literature with viable approaches in managing NPLs. The methodology and unique qualitative data analysis approach broadly theorized and descriptively provide a significant guide to what any strategy commercial banks implement in resolving NPLs for corporate borrowers under a challenging economy should look like.
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Doing Social Research and Publishing Results: A Guide to Non-native English Speakers
(Springer Nature, 2023) Saliya, C.A
This book provides a guide to such budding social researchers, who are non-native English speakers drawing examples from literature to show how to conduct a research, present research results, integrate with existing literature to draw conclusions through real-world examples. Existing English books teaching research methods and philosophy of academic research are written in ‘academic English’ and, it is hard for non-native English-speaking budding researchers to study and understand those books. Also, this book uses examples to show how to communicate with journal editors and peer reviewers to get published the research results as journal articles, book chapters or conference papers. This book connects different quantitative techniques, qualitative methodologies (case studies, phenomenology and ethnography and Grounded theory) as well as Mixed methods methodology through a single example. This book attempts to describe a holistic approach introducing a 10Ps model that incorporates the essential elements of the research process. The process focuses on combining philosophical framework and arguments from research results. This book focuses not only on conducting a research project, but also on the approach and procedures to be followed to achieve higher marks for course work assignments and publishing research articles in international journals. This book shows how to create many papers from one research/data set to increase number of publications and citations. This book has fewer words and more illustrations, tables, figures, pictures and YouTube tutorial links. This book outlines how to present test results in APA style for all the statistical test used in this book, using examples.
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Integrated-flexible research methodology: An alternative approach
(IGI Global, 2023-03-10) Saliya, C.A
The research process is not a smooth process that moves from one stage to another, or a sequential process growingfrom the roots of ontology and epistemology towards the data collection and analytical techniques and interpretations. The existentialist position of the interpretive / reformist paradigm is that reality is subjective and multiple, that it does not exist independently in the human mind. Their epistemological stance is that the available knowledge depends on the researcher's thoughts and desires. That is, "knowledge" is created by the seeker and deploying a specific methodology which is not necessarily a sequential set of "stages", a "step-by-step" course or a "layer-by-layer" peeling activity like peeling-off an onion.
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Research philosophy: Paradigms, world views, perspectives, and theories
(IGI Global, 2023) Saliya, C.A
The purpose of this chapter is to summarize the philosophical developments in the academic research field and provide a framework for non-native English-speaking budding researchers. Revealing the philosophical stance of the authors of a research paper is crucial in understanding their arguments. Therefore, an understanding of this historical evolution is useful in justifying authors' choices and presenting them clearly in the research report. Authors' perceptions of different theories, perspectives, and worldviews influence and affect many aspects of research, and it is important to mention personal stances on them in the research report at the very beginning. The choice of underpinning philosophy is significantly influenced by the author's psychosocial, economic, and cultural backgrounds. Multivism is a dynamic position of a researcher who is not confined to the bipolar-disordered extremism of objectivism and subjectivism of ontology, epistemology, methodology, and methods.
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Social research methodology and publishing results: A guide to non-native English speakers
(IGI Global, 2023) Saliya, C.A
While there are many English books available on academic research methods and philosophy, many complain that they are difficult for budding, non-native English-speaking researchers to use and understand. Rather than hiding behind jargon, writers should describe and define the concepts for the benefit of non-native English speakers. Social Research Methodology and Publishing Results: A Guide to Non-Native English Speakers explains methods commonly used in the field of academic research, provides stimulus to non-native English-speaking researchers for successful implementation of academic research, and meets the need for an appropriate course framework and materials for teaching research methodology. Covering topics such as pragmatism, research design, and empirical modeling, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource for educators and administrators of higher education, pre-service teachers, librarians, teacher educators, non-native English-speaking researchers, and academicians.