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School of Business and Management

Manesha Peiris

 Manesha Peiris

Email: p.peiris@qmul.ac.uk

Project title

Unpacking entrepreneurship as practice: A case of women entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka.

Project description

Her doctoral research examines the phenomenon of entrepreneurship by developing a unified framework that aims to bridge the agency and structure gap whilst at the same time presenting an inclusive conceptualisation of the practice of entrepreneurship.  Her PhD seeks to contribute to the growing body of feminist entrepreneurship research by developing a more inclusive representation of the entrepreneur.

Supervision

1st Supervisor: Professor Ahu Tatli
2nd Supervisor: Dr Mustafa Ozturk
3rd Supervisor: Dr Ishani Chandrasekara

Biography

Manesha holds degrees of Business Information Technology (BSc) from Staffordshire University and Technology Management (MSc) from Staffordshire University. She worked as a lecturer in Information Systems at Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (2009-2016) and her research interests include Entrepreneurship and intersectionality. Her current research takes an intersectional approach to theorizing Entrepreneurship as a practice and focus on women entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka.

Publications

Journal publications

  • Peiris, P. P. M. and Kulkarni, D., 2015, An Empirical Study on Customers Adoption of E-commerce: A Customer Trust Model to Support the Adoption of E-commerce among SME in Sri Lanka, International Journal of Business and Information, 10(4), pp. 491-518.
  • Peiris, P. P. M. and Kulkarni, D., 2015, Implications of Trust and Usability on E-Commerce Adoption, International Journal of Business and Information, 10(4), pp. 519-556.

Conference papers (peer-reviewed)

  • Peiris, P. P. M. and Tatli, A., 2019, Researching Practice of Entrepreneurship by Women in Sri-Lanka: Performativity, Performance and Position, EAP4: Entrepreneurship as Practice Conference, Audencia Business School, Nantes.
  • Peiris, P. P. M. and Tatli, A., 2018, Exploring women’s practice of entrepreneurship, 34th EGOS Colloquium, Tallinn 2018: Sub-theme 45: Power, Inclusion and Intersectionality in Organizations.
  • Peiris, P. P. M. and Kulkarni, D., 2015, An Empirical Study on Customers Adoption of E-commerce: A Customer Trust Model to Support the Adoption of E-commerce among SME in Sri Lanka, International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Administration, e-Society, e-Education, and e-Technology (e-CASE & e-Tech 2015).
  • Peiris, P. P. M. and Kulkarni, D., 2015, Implications of Trust and Usability on E-Commerce Adoption, International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Administration, e-Society, e-Education, and e-Technology (e-CASE & e-Tech 2015).
  • Attanayake, M. and Peiris, P. P. M., 2015, An investigation into sales forecasting techniques and distribution management methods for Elephant House Company to reduce the forecasting errors with the market returns and remove the product stockpiling at the market,  Proceedings of Business and Technology (BAT) Conference, 9th April 2015, Colombo.
  • Palihakkara, V. and Peiris, P. P. M., 2011, An investigation in to application of Decision Making Models for Credit Scoring in a State Sector Bank, International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (ISAHP 2011) June 15 - 18, 2011, Sorrento, Italy
  • Padumadasa, E. and Peiris, P. P. M., 2011, Investigation into Intention of Using Agile Methodology for Systems Development in Sri Lanka: Developers Perspective, ICCEA 2011: 2011 3rd International Conference on Computer Engineering and Applications (ICCEA 2011), Haikou.
  • Peiris, P. P. M., Rehan, M. S. and Jayakody, G., 2009, Investigation into the application of Multiple Criteria Decision Making for an Online Candidate shortlisting System, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy/Network Process: Multi-criteria Decision Making July 29 - August 1 2009,  Pennsylvania.