Abstract
Small businesses are vital for people in the Ampara District in terms of employment generation and this, in turn, contributes to the gross domestic production to the development of the country. It is, therefore, paramount to study the small business sectors in the region and to figure out the problems faced by these small businesses. The major objective of the study is to find the association between strategic orientation of small businesses in Ampara District and its performance through mediating marketing capabilities. This study helps to understand the mediating effect of marketing capabilities by adopting the strategic orientation. Data were collected by utilising questionnaires. Analysis was done using multivariate techniques. Small businesses in the Ampara District have to achieve its profitability with lucrative performance. Hence, there should be proper guidance by way of formulating strategies so that they will be devising strategies by adopting marketing orientation, entrepreneurial orientation, and technological orientation with an effect of marketing capabilities as mediator.
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