Awards and Grants

Awards and grants

  • 2021
    Senate Award for Research Excellence, University of Colombo
  • 2020
    Senate Award for Research Excellence, University of Colombo
  • 2020
    The Vice Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence in Management and Finance, University of Colombo
  • 2018
    Highly commendable paper award
    2018: Highly commendable paper award at the annual Emerald Literati Awards for the Paper published Journal of Applied Accounting Research (JAAR), at the Emerald Litereri Awards for the paper titled “Management Controls in an Apparel Group: An Institutional Theory Perspective”. Co-authored with D. G. S. Damayanthi
  • 2013
    Mary Parker Follet Award
    Mary Parker Follet Award for Outstanding Paper published in Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal (AAAJ) for the paper titled “Theoretical triangulation and pluralism in research methods in organizational and accounting research”. Co-authored with Z. Hoque, Z and M. M. A. Covaleski.
  • 2012
    Timely Completion of Thesis Award for PhD studies
    Timely Completion of Thesis Award for PhD studies, La Trobe University, Australia
  • 1997
    B.R. De Silva Memorial Prize awarded
    B.R. De Silva Memorial Prize awarded for the Best Performance in Sri Lanka in Strategic Financial Management, CIMA - Stage 4.
  • 1997
    Scholarship awarded
    Scholarship awarded on the results at the First Year Examination in Bachelor of Business Administration (Special) Degree, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  • 2000
    Aitken Spence Gold Medal
    Aitken Spence Gold Medal for Management Accounting - Bachelor of Business Administration (Special) Degree, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • 2016
    Senate Award
    Senate Award for Excellence in Research, University of Colombo
  • 2017
    Senate Award
    Senate Award for Excellence in Research, University of Colombo
  • 2018
    Senate Award
    Senate Award for Excellence in Research, University of Colombo
  • 2019
    The Vice Chancellor’s Award
    for Research Excellence in Management and Finance, University of Colombo
  • 2020
    Research Excellence Award
    Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Research Excellence Award for distinguished contribution to research on management control practices