{"id":12524,"date":"2026-06-02T07:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/?p=12524"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:19:22","slug":"sri-lankan-journal-of-business-economics-volume-15-issue-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/sri-lankan-journal-of-business-economics-volume-15-issue-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Journal of Business Economics VOLUME 15 (ISSUE 1) \u2013 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Department of Business Economics launched the Sri Lankan Journal of Business Economics (SLJBE) Volume 15, Issue I (2026 May) which is a peer-reviewed bi-annual journal on the field of business economics and related research fields. Volume 15 (Issue I) comprises six (06) articles from scholars. Dr. (Mrs.) P. Priyantha Lalanie served as the Executive Editor of the journal, and Dr. M.P.K. Withanawasam served as the Editorial Assistant. The department congratulates the authors and highly acknowledges the invaluable service of reviewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. <\/strong>INFLUENCING FACTORS FOR POSITIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS IN EMERGING ONLINE PLATFORMS: PERSPECTIVE OF MANAGEMENT<\/strong> UNDERGRADUATES IN SRI LANKA<\/strong><\/a>
Jayasuriya, D., Amaratunge, S., and Silva, O.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2. DETERMINANTS OF WORKING IN OLD AGE: EVIDENCE FROM SRI LANKA<\/a><\/strong>
Dunusinghe, P., and Rajkotwala, S.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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3. ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIRS IN ENHANCING EXPORT PERFORMANCE OF SRI LANKA<\/a><\/strong>
Weerasinghe, P. S. T., Silva, K. N. N., Pelpola, K., and Rasanjalee, P. H. N.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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4.<\/strong> ASSESSING EXPORT READINESS OF THE SMES IN AGRICULTURE SECTOR IN SRI LANKA<\/a><\/strong>
Rodrigo, A. R. A., Silva, K. N. N., Munasinghe, N. N., and Rasanjalee, P. H. N.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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5. SERVICE QUALITY AND PASSENGER SATISFACTION IN PUBLIC BUS TRANSPORTATION: EVIDENCE FROM KALUTARA DISTRICT, SRI LANKA<\/a><\/strong>
Silva, A. H. M., and Maheswaranathan, S.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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6.<\/strong> CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA<\/a><\/strong>
Ezuem, M. D., and Sagbara, B. V.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Department of Business Economics launched the Sri Lankan Journal of Business Economics (SLJBE) Volume 15, Issue I (2026 May) which is a peer-reviewed bi-annual journal on the field of business economics and related research fields. Volume 15 (Issue I) comprises six (06) articles from scholars. Dr. (Mrs.) P. Priyantha Lalanie served as the Executive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-notice-board","category-journals-sljbe","category-research-center-for-business-economics-and-development-studies-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Sri-Lankan-Journal-of-Business-Economics-SLJBE-Volume-15-Issue-01-2026-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7odTZ-3g0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12524"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12563,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions\/12563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}