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Article History

Received: 22 July 2024

Accepted: 21 October 2024

First Online: 20 November 2024

Declarations

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: The present study was approved by the Ethics Approval Process of the Postgraduate Institute of Management, which is affiliated to the University of Sri Jayawardenepura, thereby coming under the guidelines of the Ethics Review Committee of University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka. The study was performed in accordance with the guidelines of the Ethics Review Committee at University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka. Informed consent has been obtained from all participants prior to data collection. In the case of participants below 18 years of age, permission was first obtained from parents and then from the participants themselves. Later, the transcripts were shared with a few randomly selected participants to ensure that responses matched with author’s records.

: In all instances, pseudonyms have been used to ensure the anonymity of participants and all participants have consented to the publication of their data subsequent to completing the relevant PhD thesis.

: The authors declare no competing interests.