SLIIT Business School Students Research Conference [SBSSRC]
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The Conference is open for all the business research students in Sri Lanka. The goal of the conference is to promote student research, while gaining and increasing the enthusiasm among students for academic research.
This conference gives the opportunity to showcase their scholarly work and to discuss the research interest with students with other Higher education institutions in Sri Lanka.
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Publication Open Access Investigating the Role of Organizational Culture in Facilitating the Technology Adaptation: A Study of Global Information Technology Industry(ICSDB 2024 and SLIIT Business School, 2024-12-10) Kodithuwakku, T.; Mathew, M.; Samaraweera, I.; Gamage, S.; Thelijjagoda, S.; Samarakkody, T.For decades, technological advancements and digitization have captivated academics and professionals. Digitalization has brought a transformed organizational efficacy and business operations, and the adoption of these technologies has become a necessity for industries to remain relevant and maintain their competitive edge. In the implementation of digital transformations in companies, more attention has been paid only to infrastructure and technologies, and in some cases, organizational culture and its role have been overlooked, and there is little discussion about them. The information technology sector is a rapidly growing industry in the world which heavily utilizes novel technologies. Thus, there is a necessity to identify the appropriate organizational culture for the Informational technology sector. With this understanding, this study has been conducted to identify the role of organizational culture in the global Information Technology sector. The comprehensive literature review was conducted to assess the type of organizational culture and key characteristics of the organizational culture of the information technology industry. The methodology for the study consisted of conducting a systematic literature review on literature focused on the areas of organizational culture and technological innovation that were sourced from the Scopus databases including Scopus Science Direct, Pearson, IEEE, Emerald Insight, Willey e-books, Taylor and Francis, Research Gate, and Google scholar. A total of 26 articles were selected for the final analysis from the 46 papers that were chosen. According to the findings from past studies in this field, this study concludes the need for a strong organizational culture that values innovation, adaptability, and risk-taking. These characteristics are essential for the navigating challenges of digital transformation. Most researchers have defined cultures with these characteristics as innovative cultures of digital culture. Managers and decision-makers in the industry, technology transition-related project implementation teams and scholars may benefit greatly from the findings of the study, which can help outline programs and policies focused on removing obstacles to technology adaptation in the IT industry. The goal of this research is to advance a more inclusive organizational culture for the industry to persist in the constantly changing digital landscape.Publication Open Access Circular Economy, Digitalization and Inter-Organizational Collaboration: The Marvelous Trio(ICSDB 2024 and SLIIT Business School, 2024-12-10) Greco, MThe idea of supporting the transition toward a circular economy increasingly attracts managers for many good reasons, such as the institutional pressures from governments and society, the desire to imitate the industry leaders that increasingly disseminate their circular economy initiatives, the growing space sustainability and circular economy have in education and training programs, and the challenges associated with raw materials. This keynote speech will discuss how the quest to make a firm’s products and processes ‘more circular’ needs a team effort with other organizations and a fair dose of digitalization. The audience will be left with some thought-provoking questions about how inter-organizational collaboration, digitalization, and circular economy innovation intertwine.Publication Open Access Accessing Customer Perceptions on Customer Adoption of Digital Banking Platforms; Private and Public Bank Comparison in the Post COVID –19 Pandemic in Sri Lanka(Emerald Publishing, 2022-12-01) Jayakody, J. A.D.P.M; Perera, K.N.M; Perera, D.S. I; Liyana Arachchige, K.P; Dunuwila, V.R; Lokeshwara, ADigitalization plays a significant role in every country at present. When referring to the banking field, banks introduce new digitalization features to their banking customers and motivate people to do their transactions on digitalization platforms. In this study as digitalization platforms, researchers consider ATMs, electronic fund transfers, SWIFT transfers, bank credit debit cards, digital bill payments, internet transactions, digital wallets, and E-vouchers. The main objective was to investigate the customer adoption of Digital Banking (DB)platforms during the post-COVID -19 pandemic in Sri Lanka. There were six independent variables short-formed as customer perceptions and dependent variable was customer adoption. This research is based on quantitative data gathered among the Sri Lankan people scattered in rural and urban areas. Researchers collected data by distributing google questionnaires among the people using cluster sampling method. 421 responses were collected. Analysing methods were correlation, regression and researchers used the SPSS tool for the analysis part. After the data analysis, researchers found there is a significant impact on perceived ease of use, accessibility, and digital literacy towards customer adoption and there isn’t a significant impact on perceived usefulness, perceived risk, and perceived trust to words customer adoption. Researchers concluded that the result as there is a higher number of private bank customers who indicated an intention for using digital banking platforms compared to public banking usage in Sri Lanka. This study is more important to the banking field for identifying customers’ DB usage factor identification and increasing their customers' DB usage and banking people could be able to identify the reasons that customers don’t adopt digital banking in their banking activities.