Department of Business Administration | The Pioneering Academic Department

45 Years of Excellence

Established in 1980, our Department is the pioneer in Business Management Education within the Sri Lankan university system. We remain the largest academic Department of the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. In its long history, our Department has immensely contributed to the progress of management education, the corporate sector, and the wider society of Sri Lanka.

We offer a globally competitive four-year honours degree in Business Management, BSc Honours in Business Administration, and a three-year external degree, BSc Business Studies (General) External Degree. Recently, the Department also introduced MPhil (Business) Degree. Moreover, we offer courses across a broad range of subjects, including Management, Organisational Behaviour, Strategy, and International Business, and play a unique and significant role within the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce by providing teaching and research support to students in other departments and postgraduate programmes.

Department of Business Administration
Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Nugegoda
Sri Lanka
10250
Tel: +94 (0)112 803472
Email: busadmin@sjp.ac.lk

The Cluster for Organisation & Society

The Cluster for Organisation & Society (COS) creates a scholarly forum for the members of the Department of Business Administration, whose research interests focus on Organisation and Society—their issues, developments, and dynamics in the neoliberal era. The Cluster aims to address and examine the issues, developments, and dynamics vis-à-vis the dialectical relationship between (multiple forms of) Organisation and Society in the Global South.

The Cluster for Leadership & Strategy

The Cluster for Leadership & Strategy (CLaS) is inspired by research and related activities carried out by the members of the Department of Business Administration on leadership and strategy. In a globally competitive business environment, the role of the manager in the strategy process has become complex and challenging. The Cluster therefore aims to widen its knowledge of the local and global realities of leadership and strategy process in the competitive business environment.

The Cluster for Knowledge Management & Business Innovation

The contemporary socioeconomic developments highlight the need for rapid innovation in systems and subsystems in order to interrupt the traditional business processes, practices, and mindsets of people. In this context, our team expects to use ‘research as a tool’ to create and discover new opportunities for innovation and company growth. We believe that the research output of the cluster will enable its members to reframe existing...