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32
Citations
13729
World Ranking
2543
National Ranking
149

Overview

Jay Weerawardena is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and specializes in the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a particular focus on several subfields including Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Business and International Management.

Their research explores a wide range of topics, prominently featuring Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Digital Marketing and Social Media, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Customer Service Quality and Loyalty, Technology Adoption and User Behaviour, and Big Data and Business Intelligence.

The scholar's publication record includes recent papers such as:

  • Strategic use of social media in marketing and financial performance: The B2B SME context, 2023, Industrial Marketing Management
  • Examining the role of big data and marketing analytics in SMEs innovation and competitive advantage: A knowledge integration perspective, 2023, Journal of Business Research
  • Editorial and research agenda: JBR special issue on business model innovation in social purpose organizations, 2020, Journal of Business Research
  • Advancing Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Morphological Analysis and Future Research Agenda, 2023, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
  • Context-dependence of dynamic capabilities in small, entrepreneurial firm internationalization, 2024, International Business Review

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jay Weerawardena include:

  • Guangming Cao
  • Trevor Cadden
  • Yanqing Duan
  • Ronan McIvor
  • Gillian Sullivan Mort

Their work is often published in venues such as:

  • Industrial Marketing Management
  • Journal of Business Research
  • International Business Review
  • Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
  • Australasian Marketing Journal (AMJ)

Best Publications

  • Investigating social entrepreneurship: A multidimensional model ☆

    Jay Weerawardena;Gillian Sullivan Mort

  • Social entrepreneurship: towards conceptualisation

    Gillian Sullivan Mort;Jay Weerawardena;Kashonia Carnegie

  • Conceptualizing accelerated internationalization in the born global firm: A dynamic capabilities perspective

    Jay Weerawardena;Gillian Sullivan Mort;Peter W. Liesch;Gary Knight

  • Networking capability and international entrepreneurship: How networks function in Australian born global firms

    Gillian Sullivan Mort;Jay Weerawardena

  • The role of marketing capability in innovation-based competitive strategy

    Jay Weerawardena

  • Does industry matter? examining the role of industry structure and organizational learning in innovation and brand performance

    Jay Weerawardena;Aron O'Cass;Craig C Julian

  • Sustainability of nonprofit organizations: An empirical investigation

    Jay Weerawardena;Robert E. McDonald;Gillian Sullivan Mort

  • Exploring the role of market learning capability in competitive strategy

    Jay Weerawardena

  • Competing through service innovation: The role of bricolage and entrepreneurship in project-oriented firms

    Sandeep Salunke;Jay Weerawardena;Janet R. McColl-Kennedy

  • Examining the role of international entrepreneurship, innovation and international market performance in SME internationalisation

    Aron O'Cass;Jay Weerawardena

  • Exploring the characteristics of the market-driven firms and antecedents to sustained competitive advantage

    Jay Weerawardena;Aron O'Cass

  • Towards a model of dynamic capabilities in innovation-based competitive strategy: Insights from project-oriented service firms

    Sandeep Salunke;Jay Weerawardena;Janet R. McColl-Kennedy

  • The effects of perceived industry competitive intensity and marketing-related capabilities: Drivers of superior brand performance

    Aron O'Cass;Jay Weerawardena

  • Conceptualizing and operationalizing the social entrepreneurship construct

    Abhishek Dwivedi;Jay Weerawardena

  • Capabilities, innovation and competitive advantage

    Jay Weerawardena;Felix T. Mavondo

  • Advancing entrepreneurial marketing: Evidence from born global firms

    Gillian Sullivan Mort;Jay Weerawardena;Peter Liesch

  • The central role of knowledge integration capability in service innovation-based competitive strategy

    Sandeep Salunke;Jay Weerawardena;Janet R. McColl-Kennedy

  • The role of the market sub-system and the socio-technical sub-system in innovation and firm performance: a dynamic capabilities approach

    Jay Weerawardena;Gillian Sullivan Mort;Sandeep Salunke;Gary Knight

  • Competitive Strategy in Socially Entrepreneurial Nonprofit Organizations: Innovation and Differentiation:

    Jay Weerawardena;Gillian Sullivan Mort

  • Learning, Innovation and Competitive Advantage in Not-for-Profit Aged Care Marketing: A Conceptual Model and Research Propositions

    Jay Weerawardena;Gillian Sullivan-mort

Frequent Co-Authors

Gillian Sullivan Mort
Gillian Sullivan Mort La Trobe University
Peter W. Liesch
Peter W. Liesch University of Queensland
Janet R. McColl-Kennedy
Janet R. McColl-Kennedy University of Queensland
Gary Knight
Gary Knight Willamette University
Aron O'Cass
Aron O'Cass Macquarie University
Lester W. Johnson
Lester W. Johnson Swinburne University of Technology
Judy Drennan
Judy Drennan Queensland University of Technology
Felix T Mavondo
Felix T Mavondo Monash University
Roger Bennett
Roger Bennett Kingston University
Morgan P. Miles
Morgan P. Miles Charles Sturt University

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