Research Publications Authored by SLIIT Staff
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Publication Embargo Navigating economic crisis: Factors shaping resilience in Sri Lankan construction SME supply chains(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2025) Madhavika, N; Bandara, M; Manchanayake, M; Perera, C; Bandara, W; Jayasinghe, P; Ehalapitiya, SIn today’s construction industry, supply chains are subject to much greater disruption than they were in the past, resulting in a greater need for resilience. However, there is a gap in the literature that examines the resilience of construction small and medium scale Enterprises (SMEs) specifically focusing on developing countries. This article is a step towards identifying the factors influencing the resilience of construction SME supply chains taking the case of Sri Lanka: a developing country which is currently amidst a major economic crisis. This research study adopted a mixed-method approach, employing 08 structured interviews with employees ranging from executive level to top level management of 08 construction SMEs followed by a questionnaire survey considering a sample of 195 construction SMEs also with executive level to top level management of each construction SME. The findings indicated that Collaboration, Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO), Internal Integration, and Outsourcing have a positive significant impact on the resilience of Sri Lankan construction SMEs’ supply chains during an economic crisis, while ‘collaboration’ and ‘EO’ are the most influential factors respectively. Therefore, construction SMEs must prioritize and enhance collaboration and EO when devising supply chain strategies to strengthen resilience during economic crises. This paper contributes to filling the research gap by investigating factors influencing construction SME supply chains in a developing country during an economic crisis. Moreover, it contributes to the knowledge by being one of the latest empirical studies focusing on the construction SME supply chains in Sri Lanka. The findings provide a valuable reference for both policymakers and practitioners seeking to improve the resilience of construction SME supply chains.Publication Open Access Tourism and economic growth: A global study on Granger causality and wavelet coherence(PLoS ONE, 2022-09-12) Wijesekara, C; Tittagalla, C; Jayathilaka, A; Ilukpotha, U; Jayathilaka, R; Jayasinghe, PThis paper empirically investigates the relationship between tourism and economic growth by using a panel data cointegration test, Granger causality test and Wavelet coherence analysis at the global level. This analysis examines 105 nations utilising panel data from 2003 to 2020. The findings indicates that in most regions, tourism contributes significantly to economic growth and vice versa. Developing trade across most of the regions appears to be a major influencer in the study, as a bidirectional association exists between trade openness and economic growth. Additionally, all regions other than the American region showed a one-way association between gross capital formation and economic growth. Therefore, it is crucial to highlight that using initiatives to increase demand would advance tourism while also boosting the economy.Publication Open Access Tourism and economic growth: A global study on Granger causality and wavelet coherence(researchgate.net, 2022-09-12) Wijesekara, C; Tittagalla, C; Ilukpotha, U; Jayathilaka, A; Jayathilaka, R; Jayasinghe, PThis paper empirically investigates the relationship between tourism and economic growth by using a panel data cointegration test, Granger causality test and Wavelet coherence analysis at the global level. This analysis examines 105 nations utilising panel data from 2003 to 2020. The findings indicates that in most regions, tourism contributes significantly to economic growth and vice versa. Developing trade across most of the regions appears to be a major influencer in the study, as a bidirectional association exists between trade openness and economic growth. Additionally, all regions other than the American region showed a one-way association between gross capital formation and economic growth. Therefore, it is crucial to highlight that using initiatives to increase demand would advance tourism while also boosting the economy.Publication Embargo Social media based personalized advertisement engine(IEEE, 2018-02-19) De Silva, H; Jayasinghe, P; Perera, A; Pramudith, S; Kasthurirathna, DOnline advertising has become a global phenomenon that affects the retail market substantially. Advertisements engines are an effective solution to the mobile application market to push advertisements. This paper reports evidence that AdSeeker, User Preference Based Advertisement Engine Based on Social Media is an effective solution to improve the business value of the marketing and advertising. Since the internet is used by vast number of people, it essentially needs a comprehensive method to push personalized advertisements to the right people. Adseeker is a system built using ontological mapping and social media content based semantic analysis to direct personalized. Identifying personal relationship hierarchy, and ontological approach for advertisement classification helps to identify the most appropriate advertisement for each user. AdSeeker uses the tweets posted by users to capture the preference of each and every user. Each user pushed advertisements based on their individual preferences. Based on the social experiments done using Adseeker, we could demonstrate that the social media profile based advertising is effective in providing highly relevant advertisements.