Mr.

Pathum Kodikara

Senior Lecturer Grade I

Department of Business Administration

pathumkodikara@sjp.ac.lk

BIO

I am reading for my PhD in Business and Management at Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, in the UK.

TEACHING INTERESTS

  • Business in Society
  • Organisational Behaviour

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Management of 'management' education
  • Aporia of organisational life
  • Rhetoric of (business) ethics
  • Morality of (organisational) violence

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Master of Business Administration (Merit Pass), Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM), Sri Lanka (2016)
  • Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Special) Degree (First Class), University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka (2011)

PUBLICATIONS

Conference Paper

In search for flexibility and autonomy in gig work - a study on Sri Lankan finance and techno-functional consultants’, in the stream ‘Alienation and Disempowerment in the Gig Economy’

2025 The 14th International Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester, (UK), June 18-20, 2025

Kodikara, Pathum; Kaushalya, Vasana

Conference Paper

History, Politics and Management Education: Understanding Management Education in Sri Lanka in its Historical, Political and Social Context

2023 Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, Doctoral Fortnight 2021-Doctoral Research Conference, Manchester, (UK), May 24 - June 04, 2021

Kodikara, Pathum

Conference Paper

‘It is not just ‘a page’ — Women’s solidarity expressed on digital platforms and its contribution towards the ecosystem, Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) - The 12 th International Interdisciplinary Conference, Bogotá, Colombia. .

2022 Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) - The 12 th International Interdisciplinary Conference, Bogotá, Colombia. .

Kaushalya, Vasana and Kodikara, Pathum.

Conference Paper

Motherhood, Language and Othering at Organisational Meetings’, in the stream ‘Organising Childhood: Growing Up and Looking Back’, Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) - The 11th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, Canterbury, UK. .

2021 Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) - The 11th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, Canterbury, UK. .

Kaushalya, Vasana and Kodikara, Pathum

Conference Paper

The (Im)Possibility of Pluriversal Understandings of ‘Development’: A Narrative from Global South, The 11th Critical Management Studies Conference Milton Keynes UK

2019 The 11th Critical Management Studies Conference Milton Keynes UK .

Kodikara, Pathum and Kaushalya, Vasana

Conference Paper

CMS Managership—Is it the Beginning of the End of CMS? , The 11th Critical Management Studies Conference Milton Keynes UK .

2019 The 11th Critical Management Studies Conference Milton Keynes UK .

Kodikara, Pathum and Kaushalya, Vasana,

MEDIA APPEARANCES