Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the salient legislative provisions aimed at curbing financial and economic crime. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents an analysis of financial and economic crime in Sri Lanka. Findings – The paper underlines the...

Purpose – The purpose of this organization research project was to focus on finding effective methods for the stakeholder group of private firms in the apparel and textile industry in Sri Lanka to work together as partners with government and academic institution stakeholder groups to raise...

Five‐S, a simple tool was utilized as the initial step towards total quality management activities at a public hospital in Sri Lanka. This paper introduces the system improvement activities at the hospital which won several awards for quality of service at national level. Though there are...

Purpose – This paper aims to answer the following questions: Is corporate responsibility only a cost, or is it also a profitable business strategy? If so, can the strategy work in a B2B context, as well as in the B2C context typically covered by research on corporate responsibility? Finally,...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse as to how the benefits to Tsunami affected small industry were misplaced and carried wrong priorities. Besides the support provided was insufficient for an effective recovery. There existed many governance‐related problems. Overall recovery was at a low...

Analyses the impact of concessional sales of rice under public food distribution schemes on the open market demand and total consumption of rice in Sri Lanka from 1953 to 1989. The results show that, on average, 73 per cent of the concessional issues of rice under the non‐targeted (universal)...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the effect of organizational culture (OC) on the total quality management (TQM) practices of a Sri Lankan public sector hospital, which practices Japanese 5‐S based TQM and has won several national quality awards. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose This paper aims to examine the tensions amongst the audit firms operating in Sri Lanka with the introduction of open economic policies in early 1980s and its impact to the auditing profession. Design/methodology/approach Using a qualitative approach, this study consists of in-depth...

Purpose – The authors have three purposes in writing this paper: to share the authors' experiences “catalyzing” reconstruction of a village in southern Sri Lanka four months after its destruction by the Indian Ocean tsunami, to suggest that what the authors learned in a “developing...