Rate My Professor Jay Weerawardena

Weerawardena has served on editorial boards of international journals, including as Associate Editor of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, and co-edited special issues in the Journal of Business Research (2021) on business model innovation in social purpose organizations, Industrial Marketing Management (2011) on capabilities, innovation and competitive advantage, Journal of World Business (2007) on accelerated internationalization of born global firms, and International Journal of Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Marketing (2008) on non-profit competitive strategy. He is a Fellow and Certified Marketing Practitioner of the Australian Marketing Institute. Notable honors include Google Scholar Classic Paper status (2017) for 'Investigating Social Entrepreneurship: A Multidimensional Model' (Journal of World Business, 2006, co-authored with G. Sullivan Mort) and the AMA Gerald E. Hills Best Paper on Entrepreneurial Marketing award (2022) for 'Advancing Entrepreneurial Marketing: Evidence from Born Global Firms'. Key publications include 'Business model innovation in social purpose organizations: Conceptualizing dual social-economic value creation' (Journal of Business Research, 2019), 'The learning subsystem interplay in service innovation in born global service firm internationalization' (Industrial Marketing Management, 2019), 'The central role of knowledge integration capability in service innovation-based competitive strategy' (Industrial Marketing Management, 2018), and 'Strategic use of social media in marketing and financial performance: the B2B SME context' (Industrial Marketing Management, 2023). His research has been supported by ARC Discovery Projects, UQ Research Development Grants, and current Social Enterprise Research Grants for building resilient social enterprises in Queensland (2024-2025).