Effect of Entrepreneurial Orientation on SMEs’ Innovation Performance in Sri Lanka

The critical phenomenon that SMEs' innovativeness denotes has growing interest from developing country researchers multiple fields over the last decades. Thus, study's objective is to examine Entrepreneurial Orientations' effect on in Sri Lanka. Risk-taking, proactiveness, autonomy, innovativeness, and Competitiveness have been used operationalize Orientation concept, innovation performance was conceptualized based three dimensions. A self-administrated questionnaire distributed SEM owners collected seventy-six completed questionnaires. Descriptive statistics regression analysis were analyze data. Results of study shown OE as a whole significantly impacts innovative performance. Specifically, while four dimensions EO, namely, risk-taking, impact But, does not significant influence focuses only influences SMEs most considerable portion enterprises Lankan business sector represents SMEs. It anticipated policy makers, SME owners, decision-makers will help better understand policymakers'