Sriya Kumarasinghe Cultural Contingencies on Performance: Empirical findings from business organizations in Sri Lanka, Australia and New Zealand (LAMBERT Academic Publishing, December 2011).

Abstract

Prima facie corporate culture, organisational structure, and management strategy play a pivotal role in the performance of any business enterprise irrespective of its national identity, place of operation, finance and production portfolio, and marketing mix. Increasingly and historically an enormous research is being undertaken and published every year all over the globe to deliberate on the diverse aspects of the above three dimensions. Over fifteen years or so Sriya Kumarasinghe has conducted research from different platforms and statuses, such as PhD researcher under Monbusho scholarship at University of Tsukuba of Japan, graduate student and lecturer at university in Sri Lanka, and casual and regular lecturer at University of Otago in New Zealand. The combined result of these research has been published by LAMBERT Academic Publishing with an ISBN 978-3-8473-0739-6 in December 2011. The size of this book is 130 pages (viiip. + 122p.). It is a matter of great joy for an author if his/her research finds outlets for publication and thus come to the readers at large. Sriya at first deserves admiration from this reviewer for her relentless work over the years to publish this book. Thanks to LAMBERT Academic Publishing also which excels in the publication of academic works of both novice, mediocre, and even established researchers and authors. This article reviews in a nutshell the contents of this book, examines its academic value, and outlines some drawbacks of the research with a strong expectation that the author will take these into account seriously while conducting research in the future.