INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE ARTICLES (KDU IRC): Recent submissions
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Online Shopping Behaviour of Young Adults in Higher Education Sector: How Brand Matters
(2014)The purpose of this study is to find out the online shopping behaviour of Sri Lankan young adults with special emphasis on brand loyalty. Building and maintaining brand loyalty is a vital part of establishing sustainable ... -
Determinants of the Factors Affecting the Customer Satisfaction in Super Market Industry in Sri Lanka
(2014)customer satisfaction and service quality are crucial factors when defining organizational success. The winning approach in brining success is to serve the best quality to the customers. The current situation requires ... -
Perception on Credit Cards for E-Payments in E-Government Service in Sri Lanka
(2014)n competitive and complicated context, people look for quick, short and quality services. Government as well needs to provide competitive services by integrating new technologies. In an e-government, a solid and trusted ... -
Risk Analysis of Governance in Community Development Projects
(2014)Governance in a community development project could be referred as a process of decision making in order to achieve expectations, and management goals. The good governance ensures transparency in decision making and ... -
Box-Jenkins Approach for Out-of-Sample Forecasting of Stock Price Index: Evidence from Colombo Stock Exchange
(2014)Univariate time series analysis under the time domain has become a widely used data analysis technique from the past. The methods belong to time series could be used to identify the temporal structure of data and forecasting. ... -
Environmental Disclosure Practices of Manufacturing Industry -Evidence from Listed Companies in Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) in Sri Lanka
(2014)This study examines the level of Environmental Disclosures by the companies listed in Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) in Sri Lanka and their association with some specific attributes of the companies. For this purposes, a ... -
A Review on Geometric Brownian Motion for Forecasting the Daily Share Prices in CSE
(2014)Capital Investments in stock market is the easiest and fastest way for building healthy financial foundation for our future life. As a result, stock markets have become more institutionalized in the past few decades and ... -
Impact of Granting Micro Finance Facilities on the Living Standards of the Rural Poor in Sri Lanka
(2014)This paper establishes facts to evaluate the impact of microfinance credit schemes in operation, on the actual living standards of beneficiaries of such schemes. In Sri Lanka, micro finance credit facilities are being ... -
Importance of Ethical Leadership in Public and Private Enterprises of Sri Lanka in Developing and Global Contexts
(2014)This conference paper will attempt to address key aspects of a resurgent and a contemporary business issue - importance of ethical leadership in private and public enterprises of Sri Lanka in developing and global contexts. ... -
The Study on Factors Affecting the Decline of Freight Movement: The Case of Sri Lanka Railways (SLR)
(2014)The freight movement by the Sri Lanka Railways has had a dramatic decline over the last three decades. The freight market share of the Sri Lanka Railways(SLR) has come down to 0.7% in the recent past, which was 32% in 1979 ... -
Determinants of Air Passenger Demand in Sri Lanka: A Case Study based on Bandaranayake International Airport
(2014)Air transportation plays a significant role in nations' economy providing expeditious links to the international markets. Globalization and advanced technological applications have squeezed the entire world, where by ... -
Trucking Industry Perceptions of Congestion Problems and Potential Solutions to Container Transportation in Sri Lanka
(2014)Inland Container transportation is coordinated and interacted between port terminals, Container Freight Stations, exporters, consignees, clearing agents, freight forwarders and primarily container transport companies. The ... -
Fashion Syntax: Concept of Contextual Dependence
(2014)Fashion is a mode of language where man's has the ability to transcend his expression. Like language in this sense, dress functions as a kind if syntax, according to a set of more or less constant rules depending on whether ... -
Animal Figures found from Mosaic designs at Karagampitiya Subodharamaya
(2014)The main objective of this research paper is to explicate about animal figures found in Sri Lankan mosaic designs with special reference to mosaics at Karagampitiya Subodharamaya. The methodology of this research paper ... -
Impact of Music on Education of Primary Students in Colombo District
(2014)Education is the process of transferring skills, knowledge and habits of people from one generation to the next. Education is obtained through the methods of learning and teaching, and by life experiences. As Oxford ... -
Factors Affecting to Distract the University Students' Education in Sri Lanka
(2014)The Government of Sri Lanka enrols and provides free University education to approximately 20,000 students annually. Suitably qualified students are admitted to 15 Universities, 03 Campuses and various other higher Government ... -
The Contribution of Caregivers in Christian and Buddhist Preschools in Respect of Early Childhood Care in Sri Lanka
(2014)Early childhood is considered as the most important and decisive period in forming the foundation of the holistic development of one's personal life. The type of ones future personality depends on how he or she brought up ... -
Stakeholder needs in English for Legal Purposes (ELP) for Sri Lankan Undergraduates
(2014)Studies on needs analysis in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) have focused their attention on identifying contradictory stakeholder needs. This study is aimed at identifying needs of stakeholders with regard to the ... -
The Effectiveness of the Implementation of the National Plan for a Trilingual Sri Lanka: In Relation to the Role of English in School Level
(2014)The 10 Year National Plan for a Trilingual Sri Lanka (2012-2022) could be identified as a high potential development project introduced recently which upon being successfully implemented and executed could result in many ... -
Tertiary Englisg Education: Are we Producing Lifelong Learners?
(2014)Given the importance of the English language as a pre-eminent international language today, the competency in the English language, maintaining continuous passion to learn English, and acquiring the skills associated with ...