RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Premaratne, S.P. Household Labour Supply for Urban Young Couple with Pre-school Children, Economic Journal of South Asia (forthcoming) 2011,

Premaratne, S.P. Empowerment of Women through Self Help Groups (SHGs): A Study of SHG Microfinance Project in Sri Lanka (forthcoming) with S.M.P. Senanayake

Premaratne, S.P. Female Labour Supply and Child Care: Urban Young Parents with Pre-school Children, Annual Research Symposium, University of Colombo 2011 (June 28, 2011)

Premaratne, S.P. Clusters and Networks for Small Enterprises, ed. W. Wimalaratana, Agriculture and Rural Development in Sri Lanka, A Felicitation Volume in Honour of Dr. S.M.P.Senanayake, Department of Economics, University of Colombo , Sri Lanka, 2011.

Premaratne, S.P. TMT Characteristics: Antecedent Effects on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Learning Orientation of Internationalized SMEs, with L. Wickremasooriya, Conference Proceedings, International Research Conference on Management and Finance Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo, 2010

Premaratne, S.P. Regulation and Supervision of Microfinance in Sri Lanka: A Policy Analysis Paper on Draft Proposals- Ed. A. Govinda Reddy,  Microfinance and MicroInsurance: Some Country Perspectives, Amicus Books, The Icfai University Press , 2010

Premaratne, S.P. Accessibility and Affordability of Rural Microfinance Services in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Economic Journal, Vol. 10 (2) pp 109-136, 2009

Premaratne, S.P. Impact of Entrepreneurial Networks on New Business Development, Ed. Ranjith Bandara, Development Challenges and Alternative Policies, 2009 (in Sinhala)

Premaratne, S.P. Entrepreneurial Networks and SME Development: A Managerial Approach, The Peradeniya Journal of Economics, Vol. 2 (1&2), pp. 88-97, 2008

Premaratne, S.P. Entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka, invited chapter in Dana, L., Welpe, I., Han, M., and Ratten, V., The Handbook of Research on Asian Entrepreneurship, UK: Edward Elgar, ISBN 978 1 84720 6084, with W.D.Lakshman 2008 (forthcoming)

Premaratne, S.P. Poverty and Food Security Survey, with SMP. Senanayake et al. 2007, unpublished paper submitted to JICA

Premaratne, S.P. Analysis of Proposed Micro Finance Bill in Sri Lanka, www.sanwada.org, published in May 2007, Pathfinder, Colombo

Premaratne, S.P. Network Formation and Small Business Development: The Case of Small Enterprises in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Economic Journal, Vol. 7 (1 & 2), June & December 2006, PP 1-40

Premaratne, S.P. Linkages between Formal and Informal Financial Institutions: A Strategy for Development, a paper presented at the Annual Research Sessions, Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo, 6th December 2006

Premaratne, S.P. Micro-finance for Accelerated Development in Sri Lanka: Need for a Public-Private-Donor Partnership, with SMP Senanayake, Chapter 10 (eds) ADVdeS Indraratna and Athula Ranasinghe, Public-Private Sector Partnership in Economic Development: A Case for Sri Lanka, 2006

Premaratne, S.P. Micro-finance for Accelerated Development, Savings and Development: Quarterly Review, 2, June 2006

Premaratne, S.P. Microfinance for Accelerated Development, a paper presented at Sri Lanka Economics Association Annual Session, 16-17 July 2005, with Senanayake S.M.P, 2005

Premaratne, S.P. Economics of E-commerce, (2005), published in Sri Lanka.

Premaratne, S.P. Gender Discrimination in Household Expenditure in Sri Lanka, with Liyanaraachchi, S.T., Conference on Sri Lanka: Challenges of a Society in Transition, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 16-18 December 2004

Premaratne, S.P. Access to Rural Non-farm Economic Activities: The Case of Moneragala District in Sri Lanka. With Senanayake S.M.P, (December 2004) Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics

Premaratne, S.P. Gender Variation in Household Income and Saving Behaviour of the Poor: A Case Study of Poor Households in Sri Lanka, a paper presented and published at the Ninth National Convention on Women’s Studies, 20th – 23rd March 2004, Centre for Women’s Research Sri Lanka (CENWOR), Sri Lanka - 2004

Premaratne, S.P. Open Path: Rural Non-farm Economic Activities: The Case of Moneragala District in Sri Lanka, with Dr. S.M.P. Senanayake, Working paper Series No 5. Development Studies Institute of University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (2003).

Premaratne, S.P. Inter- and Intra- Household Gender Budget Analysis in Sri Lanka, a paper presented at the Fourth Regional Workshop on Gender Analysis of Budget, 21-22 November 2003 in Mumbai, India – 2003

Premaratne, S.P. Access To Rural Non-Farm Economic Activities: The Case Of Moneragala District In Sri Lanka, with S.M.P.Senanayake, at the Second Annual Research Session in the Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 2003

Premaratne, S.P. Dynamic Pattern of Entrepreneurial Networks in Developing Countries- A Managerial Approach, Economic Review, Vol. 29, Number 1/3, April/June 2003.

Premaratne, S.P. Access to Capital: A Comparison of Male–and Female–Owned Small Businesses in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Economic Journal, Vol. 3 (2), 2002

Premaratne, S.P. Premaratne, S.P. Open Path: Rural Non-farm Economic Activities The Case of Moneragala District in Sri Lanka, with S.M.P. Senanayake and U.P.P.Serasinghe, Unpublished, 2003.

Premaratne, S.P. Gender Budget Analysis, a paper presented at the Third Regional Meeting on Gender Analysis of Budget on 16-17 December, 2002 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Premaratne, S.P. Access to Capital: A Comparison of Male–and Female–Owned Small Businesses in Sri Lanka, a paper presented at the International Workshop on Impact of micro-finance and Business Development services on Poverty Alleviation, at Sarvodaya Economic Enterprise Development Services in Sri Lanka, September 23 to 2, 2002.

Premaratne, S.P. The Impact of Entrepreneurial Network on Business Founding and Growth: The Case of small Enterprises in Sri Lanka, a paper presented at the First Annual Research session in Management and Finance, 30th August 2002, Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo.

Premaratne, S.P. Entrepreneurial Networks and Small Business Growth: the Case of Small Enterprises in Sri Lanka, 2002, PhD Thesis, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, Technical University of Eindhoven, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. http://alexandria.tue.nl/extra2/200211273.pdf

Premaratne, S.P. ‘A Dynamic Entrepreneurial Network Model: The Case of Small Enterprises in Sri Lanka’, a paper presented at the Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies (ECIS), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 23rd January 2002.

Premaratne, S.P. Entrepreneurial Networks, Subcontracting Activities, Small Enterprises and International Business: The Case of Small Enterprises in Sri Lanka, Accepted paper for presentation at the Pan-Pacific Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, May 29- 31, 2002.

Premaratne, S.P. The Impact of Entrepreneurial Networks on Subcontracting Activities: The Case of Small Enterprises in Sri Lanka, a paper presented at the forthcoming 5th Annual European Network on Industrial Policy (EUNIP) in Vienna, Austria from 29th November and 1st December, 2001. http://www.eunip.com (Vienna, 2001), http://www.wifo.ac.at/~luger/premaratne_sunny.pdf#search='subcontracting%20linkages'

Premaratne, S.P. A Gender-Based Performance Analysis of Micro and Small Enterprises in Sri Lanka, 2001, Economic Review, Vol. 27 (8 & 9): November/December, pp. 31- 34

Premaratne, S.P. Networks, Resources, and Small Business Growth: The Experience in Sri Lanka’, (2001), Journal of Small Business Management, Vol. 39 (4- October), pp. 363- 371

Premaratne, S.P. An Evolutionary Network Model: The Different Networks and Different Phases of Entrepreneurship, paper has been accepted for the presentation at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Southeast Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (SEINFORMS) held in Myrtle Beach, USA, October 4 - 5, 2001, and published at  http://www.seinforms.org/www/home/main.html or http://www.seinforms.org/

Premaratne, S.P. An Evolutionary Network Model: Different Networks in Different Stages of Entrepreneurship, ASCI Journal of Management, 30 (1), 2001

Premaratne, S.P. The Impact of Entrepreneurial External Resource Networks on Small Business Growth, a paper presented at the USASBE/SBIDA 2001 joint National Conference in Orlando, Florida, USA, February 7-10, 2001, and published at http://www.usasbe.org/conference/2001/proceedings/papers/062.pdf

Premaratne, S.P. Subcontracting Activities vs Entrepreneurial Network Relationships: The Case of Small Enterprises in Sri Lanka’, Journal of Economic and Political Weekly, 2001 Feb.

Premaratne, S.P. Pig Farming Project, submitted for the Training Program for Trainers/Promoters in Entrepreneurial Development conducted by Shramaya Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1991

Premaratne, S.P. Mobilisation of Rural Savings in Sri Lanka, submitted for Diploma in Economic Development conducted by the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1991/92