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| Dr. Ananda Wickramasinghe |
Volume four, Issue one of the Sri Lanka Journal of Management Studies (SLJMS) has been released.
This volume is fully allocated for the best papers selected at the first International Conference on Management and Entrepreneurship (ICOME). The first International Conference on Management and Entrepreneurship organised by the Faculty of Management Studies, Open University of Sri Lanka was held on 31 March and 1 April 2022. The event was graced by Prof. Philip Kotler and Prof. Xiaobo Wu, who are renowned researchers in the field of Business Management. One of the major attributes of this event was to appreciate and facilitate a forum for researchers worldwide to present their research studies. Around 70 research papers and speeches on management and entrepreneurship were presented by local and foreign researchers.
The new issue of SLJMS is dedicated to Dr. Ananda Wickramasinghe, a senior academic in Business School and Sydney Business School, UOW, Sydney Australia (UOW in the top 1 percent of universities worldwide, and 185th – QS World University Rankings 2023). He teaches Design Thinking and Business Transformation, Contemporary Global Perspectives on Strategy, and Innovation and Entrepreneurship for a leading MBA program in Sydney Business School, UOW, and Contemporary Leadership Skills for Entrepreneurs, Insights into Innovation & Entrepreneurship for Postgraduate program in Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
Dr. Wickramasinghe has more than 25 years of experience leading and working closely with universities, private higher education institutions and industry in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Dubai in teaching, research, academic and professional program development, consultancy, and training. He offers deep expertise in design thinking (user/human centred-design) and business transformation, strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship, strategy and international business in undergraduate and MBA courses, executive MBA and professional development programs in contemporary leadership, critical thinking for creativity and innovation.
Dr. Wickramasinghe is passionate about user-centric design employing ethnographic and quantitative data to improve consumer/user experience and realising the significant, but often dormant, potential that resides in people and organisations. More importantly, I was fortunate to be his research student at the time of my Ph.D. journey. He is a great mentor and also an inspirational motivator for me. Whatever the problem comes he is always willing to help his students. As a supervisor of my PhD, I have gained a lot from him and he always teaches me to be ‘passionate’ about research. His wife, Dr. Helan Ramya Gamage also an academic, researcher and one of the best academic administrators as well.
Dr. Wickramasinghe is an active, high quality and high-impact researcher in interdisciplinary research in the business including, entrepreneurship, relationship quality/marketing, leadership, strategy, and international business. He has published in more than 35 high-quality journals including five publications (2021-2022) in A*, A, and Q1 journals such as Industrial Marketing Management, Business Research, Sustainability, Journal of Strategic Marketing, Annals of Operations. He has supervised several Ph.D. students to complete on time with several leading publications.
He has expertise in course/program development for higher education institutions and professional development. He has led teams to develop courses in bachelor in business (entrepreneurship), bachelor of marketing, bachelor of business information systems, Masters in Business Information systems, and facilitating to develop courses in accounting, MBA, executive MBA, and executive development programs.
Dr. Wickramasinghe is an experienced trainer and consultant in design thinking, contemporary leadership practices, management training, strategic planning, and entrepreneurs’ training and development in Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. He has experience in academic governance roles as Sub Dean, Head of Postgraduate Students, and Head of Discipline in Management and Strategy, Head and Chair: Learning and Teaching, Course Director, Chair of University Strategic Planning, and Subject Coordinator in Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
His teaching has been recognised as an excellence in learning and teaching award by universities in Australia, and nationally. He is passionate about being active and engaging in learning: “involve me, I learn” and sees problems as opportunities to transform them for human, social, and ecological sustainability. The Ph.D. thesis of Dr. Wickramasinghe has been awarded as an outstanding higher degree research.by the University of Queensland (in the top 50 in the Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU), QS, and Times Higher Education 62).
Volume four, Issue one of the Sri Lanka Journal of Management Studies (SLJMS) consists of eight articles under the following headings:
The above papers were selected after a rigorous review process. First, authors must follow the normal peer review process to get their papers on board for the conference. Then getting selected for the best paper again there was a different evaluation done by experts in research. Thereafter to get published in SLJMS also needs to follow the journal guidelines and the review process aligns with the scope of the journal. Hence it can be considered as a quality output altogether with a great experience for all. The current issue can be referred to via https://sljms.sljol.info/.
The editorial team invites all researchers, specialists and professionals in various disciplines of Management Studies to make a worthy contribution to the upcoming issue of this journal. Any questions, suggestions or concerns may be directed to SLJMS Editor-in-Chief, Professor Nalin Abeysekera at [email protected].
