Technology is advancing swiftly, acceptance and adoption of such advancements by the society is blurred. This study examines technology acceptance and adoption of internet banking by medical officers in North Central Province in Sri... more
Technology is advancing swiftly, acceptance and adoption of such advancements by the society is blurred. This study examines technology acceptance and adoption of internet banking by medical officers in North Central Province in Sri Lanka. The study was primarily grounded on technology acceptance model and empirical data collected from the 124 respondents. Data analysis comprised statistical tools including correlation and regression analysis. The result reveals that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, security and privacy have a significant influence on acceptance and adoption of the internet banking. The acceptance and adoption of new technologies could be encouraged by building better awareness among the potential users.
The Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SMEs) have contribute economic development of country and generate new employment. This causes of generation of income and contribution of social activities and poverty reducing. Technology... more
The Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SMEs) have contribute economic development of country and generate new employment. This causes of generation of income and contribution of social activities and poverty reducing. Technology advancement highly impacts each and every part of the world. Advancement of technology affects to all of the business and it highly influence to the SMEs. Growth of SMEs with the technology in Sri Lankan context is blurred. Therefore, this study was primarily grounded on usage of Computerized Accounting Systems (CASs) and identify the factors that influence on Usage of CASs on SMEs. The study collected empirical data from the 100 SMEs in the North Central Province and bivariate analysis and factor analysis were used for the further analysis. The factors cost, business size, infrastructure, government support, management support, external environment and perceived ease of use were identified in literature. According to the findings it was revealed that 40% SMEs adopted CASs for keeping accounting records. There is no significance influence from demographic variables on usage of CASs and there is significant influence on use of CASs only the factors business size, business cost and external environment. Hence, the software development cost of CASs should be reduced by development companies by providing variety of options to SMEs and the acceptance of new technologies could be encouraged by given that better awareness of competitive advantages of CASs to SMEs.
Undergraduates have to get-up to date, quickly and accurate information mixing with digital/online tools to fulfill their information gap. The aim of this research was to find which factors affect to undergraduate online/digital... more
Undergraduates have to get-up to date, quickly and accurate information mixing with digital/online tools to fulfill their information gap. The aim of this research was to find which factors affect to undergraduate online/digital information seeking behavior of Sri Lanka. The study is compiled with data gathered from questionnaires of 150 undergraduate from three Universities. Research mainly, focused on the models of Information seeking behavior and technology acceptance. Ease of use of technology, Usefulness of technology, Information need and information use were considered as independent variable and all of them are positively correlated and are identified as significant with the behavior of online information seeking. The relationship between Information need and information seeking behavior on digital/online environment shows the highest positive correlation coefficient. Undergraduates seek more information on line information on digital/ online environment. Therefore, traditional universities should provide more online facilities for undergraduates to improve their knowledge and skills.
Information systems play a vital role in today's business world. Literature reveals that information systems are not success in every context due to various reasons. Although several conceptual and empirical studies have addressed these... more
Information systems play a vital role in today's business world. Literature reveals that information systems are not success in every context due to various reasons. Although several conceptual and empirical studies have addressed these issues, their findings are inconclusive. Studies that have investigated the use of success of information systems in Sri Lankan context are rare and very limited. Therefore, this study aims to identify the factors that effect on success of information system usage in the government sector organizations in Sri Lanka. A sample of 96 information system users in government organizations in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka was selected using purposive sampling. A questionnaire survey was administered in the data collection. Data analysis consists of descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis. The results reveal that information quality, system quality and user quality have significance effects to the effective use of information systems. The study stresses the necessity of improving the quality of information in the information systems to enhance the ease of use, reliability and security. Moreover, government should employ well qualified staff and trained them regularly to ensure the quality of service provided through the information systems.
In the current context, use of pirated software is increasing and it is becoming a critical issue to the economy of the world. Though use of pirated software is an unethical and illegal activity most of the university students addict to... more
In the current context, use of pirated software is increasing and it is becoming a critical issue to the economy of the world. Though use of pirated software is an unethical and illegal activity most of the university students addict to use that type of software using various methods. It is not clear of reasons of using pirated software by students. This study examines the students' intention to use of pirated software among university students in Rajarata University of Sri Lanka (RUSL). Pilot phase reveals that 96% of students of the RUSL use pirated software. Based on the result of former studies self-administrative questionnaire was developed. Data were collected from 142 students using purposive sampling technique of the faculties Applied Sciences, Management Studies and Social Sciences and Humanities in RUSL. Research Model was developed on software piracy including Intension to use pirated software as dependent variable and Computer Experience, Attitudes, Awareness, Social Influence and Moral Obligation as independent variables. The results reveal that Computer Experience, Attitudes, Awareness of software and Social Influence positively affected to the use of pirated software while Moral obligation is negatively affected. Students should be enlightened about the consequences of use of pirated software to the economy of the country. Also, they should be informed that use of pirated software is an illegal activity. Results of this study is limited to undergraduates of Mihintale premises of RUSL and to generalize and validate the results more researches are needed with wider sample of selecting all national universities in Sri Lanka and selecting students who belong to other domains.
The development of technology has shaped the nature of the education. Learning Management Systems (LMS) of one of the applications in e-learning is widely accepted by undergraduates. The LMS help students and lecturers by facilitating... more
The development of technology has shaped the nature of the education. Learning Management Systems (LMS) of one of the applications in e-learning is widely accepted by undergraduates. The LMS help students and lecturers by facilitating alternative way to learn, communicate and time saving as well as making the learning content easier to be accessed. The users of LMS have reported that the current systems had been unable to fulfill their desired expectations since it was merely used as a tool for communication. More, the findings of the previous studies of students' attitudes towards use of LMS are inconclusive. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate the students' attitude towards the use of LMS in Sri Lankan Universities. 120 undergraduates of Rajarata University of Sri Lanka was used for the study using purposive sampling. The results reveal that the variables Perceived usefulness and Perceived ease of use have significant effects to the attitude towards use of LMS. Also, the study confirms that the students have positive attitudes towards use of the LMS. Therefore, university should create an e-learning culture through use of LMS by providing useful content with ease of access to the students.
This study investigates the consequences cash flows and their impact on business financial success under firm's stability, liquidity and profitability which show the investment and its final outcomes. Three different consequences from... more
This study investigates the consequences cash flows and their impact on business financial success under firm's stability, liquidity and profitability which show the investment and its final outcomes. Three different consequences from stability, liquidity and profitability related paradigm are anticipated firm financial strategy, accounting and financial misconduct and investment consequences. These are in the business context found to practice from different strategy. Among the firm strategy, cost leadership heavily affect the strong positive cash flows. On the other hand differentiation strategy faces longer investment consequences and greater stability and liquidity of cash flows. Nevertheless, the investment consequence was ephemeral for any strategy. However portal point is sufficient cash flow need to be generating within the business unit. In the cost leadership or differentiate urged to fulfill investment criterion.
Technology becomes a part of the human life and it has significantly changed cultural norms of behavior of individuals. One of the popular applications of the technology is the smartphone and it has affected work of students' behavior.... more
Technology becomes a part of the human life and it has significantly changed cultural norms of behavior of individuals. One of the popular applications of the technology is the smartphone and it has affected work of students' behavior. Therefore, the objective of this study is to identify the factors influencing the smartphone addiction among school children of the North Central province in Sri Lanka. A well administrated questionnaire is prepared based on the previous literature with constructs of Usefulness, Loneliness, Family Income Level, Gender and Addiction to Smart Phone. 140 respondents were selected using purposive sampling technique for data collection and analysis indicates that all the independent variables positively affect the addiction to smart phone. Loneliness and gender of students is having higher impact on the addiction. The advancement of technology severs to the growth of the children's educations, but parents have to place much attention to the use of technology by their children because addiction of smartphone would reduce their children's academic performance. The addiction of technology such as smartphones would be reduced when students are trained to think rationally from their childhood.
Farmers invest much money for their cultivations but they failed recover their cost due to not having latest agricultural information. Mobile applications are maintained by local agencies to enhance information richness of farmers.... more
Farmers invest much money for their cultivations but they failed recover their cost due to not having latest agricultural information. Mobile applications are maintained by local agencies to enhance information richness of farmers. However, the farmers do not use those applications. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate the factors affecting for the usage of mobile applications among farmers in agriculture in Bulathsinhala area. The administrative questionnaire was developed getting help from previous studies and data were collected from 100 respondents who had smart phones using purposive sampling technique. The respondents were farmers who engaged with Land, Mud and Animal farming. The results revealed that Education and Knowledge, Social & Family Factors and Economic Condition had a significance relationship with usage of mobile application. According to Pearson correlation, Facilitating Conditions is also statistically significant to use mobile application by farmers but using regression rejects it. Famers must be educated to use agricultural applications, as well as agricultural societies must share the cost of those applications.
Cloud computing is becoming a prominent technology among the individuals with its exclusive characteristics and usage of remote resources through the Internet. This study examined the factors affecting to the university students'... more
Cloud computing is becoming a prominent technology among the individuals with its exclusive characteristics and usage of remote resources through the Internet. This study examined the factors affecting to the university students' attitudes towards the use of cloud computing in lately established universities in Sri Lanka. A Structured questionnaire was developed and collected data from 150 respondents following the purposive sampling technique. A research model was developed and five hypotheses were tested using Correlation analysis and Multiple Regression Analysis. The results of this study revealed that Perceived Usefulness is the most Important variable to improve the students' attitudes to use the cloud computing. Further, other factors Perceived Ease of Use, Perceived Security, Perceived Ease of Access and Social Influences were also affected to the students' attitudes towards the use of cloud computing. Learning environment of lately established universities in Sri Lanka should be improved to access the cloud based resources of the students to improve students' attitude towards use of cloud computing.