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Sustainable entrepreneurial business model to uphold Sri Lankan textile handloom communities

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dc.contributor.advisor Dissanayake DGK
dc.contributor.advisor Downs C
dc.contributor.author Thushari WKD
dc.date.accessioned 2023
dc.date.available 2023
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.identifier.citation Thushari, W.K.D. (2023). Sustainable entrepreneurial business model to uphold Sri Lankan textile handloom communities [Doctoral dissertation, University of Moratuwa]. Institutional Repository University of Moratuwa. http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/20862
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/21693
dc.description.abstract This study develops a sustainable business model that can foster the growth of the textile handloomindustry in Sri Lanka. The research identified opportunities for product innovations through design intervention and highlighted the potential for community-based entrepreneurship, allowing the development of a novel theoretical model that emphasizes diversified interventions to encourage benefits including and beyond economic growth. This study relied on qualitative data from empirical work, including 9 case studies, 35 semistructured interviews and field observations. Additionally, three participatory action research focus group workshops were conducted using the KETSO tool. The study reveals the textilehandloom industry is inherently sustainable but structural barriers hinder innovation and growth. The environmentally conscious manufacturing process and social inclusion within weavingcommunities are the key driving forces of sustainability in the sector but the structure of the industry, lack of skills in product design and development, and limited access to markets act asbarriers to innovation and growth. The study further discovered that entrepreneurial culture is notprevalent in community life. As a result, the study proposes a theoretical notion of sustainable community-basedentrepreneurship within the textile handloom industry is determined by the four factors of socialcapital (networks), family web, social status and innovation mix. The proposed business modelconsists of four layers; economic, social, environmental and entrepreneurial. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject HANDLOOM COMMUNITIES en_US
dc.subject FAMILY WEB en_US
dc.subject SOCIAL STATUS en_US
dc.subject INNOVATION MIX en_US
dc.subject DESIGN INTERVENTION en_US
dc.subject SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT en_US
dc.subject COMMUNITY BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP en_US
dc.subject SOCIAL NETWORKS en_US
dc.subject TEXTILE AND APPAREL ENGINEERING– Dissertation en_US
dc.title Sustainable entrepreneurial business model to uphold Sri Lankan textile handloom communities en_US
dc.type Thesis-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.degree Doctor of Philosophy en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Textile and Apparel Engineering en_US
dc.date.accept 2023
dc.identifier.accno TH5162 en_US


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