This study aims to identify the primary topics and present dynamics in the field of entrepreneurship education at universities and to make recommendations for future research directions. We conduct a bibliometric analysis on a selection of 447 studies from the Web of Science database to determine the extent of research on entrepreneurship education at universities between 2004 and 2022. In this study, researchers identify the most influential articles and writers based on their citations, publications, and geographical location. Additionally, they assess existing themes, identify bottlenecks to growth in the literature, and recommend future study options. While research on entrepreneurship education at universities happens globally, there is a dearth of collaboration across national borders, particularly between writers from developed and developing countries. Most of the research on entrepreneurship education at universities focuses on a quantitative approach in the analysis of entrepreneurship. Lastly, we conclude by proposing possible avenues for future research.

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Women in boards is an emerging concept as a solution to break gender barriers across boardrooms. Thus, a comparative study has been conducted, focusing on examining the degree of women in boards and the level of sustainability based on the resource dependency theory, contingency theory, and agency theory. But there is a dearth of studies related to the women in board and sustainability in Sri Lanka. This study is carried out as a solution to the empirical gap and contextual gap. The archival data is gathered based on the audited annual set of financial statements based on the highest market capitalization for the period of 2016 to 2019 and the sample consists of 50 companies. In addition to secondary data, direct interviews were conducted for the sample taking an approach of the triangulation method. The gathered data was dropped down and analyzed by using descriptive statistics, regression, and independent sample T-test. The researcher has used sustainability as the dependent variable and the women directors on the board as an independent variable. The results indicate a significant positive relationship between women in boards and sustainability in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan companies with the critical mass concept have a greater mean difference than companies without having female directors at least three. Furthermore, it also reveals that women’s power of managing different roles and gender stereotypes tend to increase sustainability performance in social, economic, and environmental spheres. The inclusion of female directors will be a pragmatic solution to gender diversity and to create an interest in sustainability which is proving to be an emerging trend in Sri Lanka. This study has proved that the inclusion of women’s voices in the board room adds more colour not only to survive in the corporate world but also to highlight and accentuate an organization by contributing more to society and the environment with growing performance. Keywords: Women in Boards, Corporate Sustainability, Critical Mass Concept

Employee engagement develops positive attitudes towards the organization among employees. According to the researchers' knowledge, no investigation focused on investigating the mediating relationship of employee engagement between high-performance work practices, religiosity, personal character, leadership and work-family life balance, and job performance in the banking sector. Two hundred managers were randomly selected from banks in Sri Lanka and collected data using an online structured questionnaire. The results showed a mediating relationship of employee engagement between high-performance work practices, religiosity, and Job performance. The findings of this study add new knowledge to system theory and are essential for the policymakers and practionnaires to improve job performance in the banking sector. This study explores the relationship between high-performance work practices, religiosity, personal character, leadership and work-family life balance, and job performance and the mediating impact of employee engagement on the relationship between the variables in the banking sector. This study confirms the questionnaire's reliability and validity and adopts a partial least squares modeling method to examine the relationship. Our findings provided empirical evidence for the hypothesized relationships between employee engagement as a mediator between high-performance work practices, religiosity, and job performance. Our research findings have implications for policymakers and banking sector companies. Initially, it is essential to consider by policymakers such as the central bank Security Exchange Commission to introduce policies to improve high-performance work practices to improve job performance through employee engagement. In addition, Bank authorities should consider adopting religiosity and high-performance practices to improve job performance, which is essential to achieving higher organizational performance. The study's findings should be viewed in light of the study's limitations, which could open up a new research direction. Despite its usefulness in establishing the directional relationships among variables, cross-sectional surveying has limitations in drawing causal judgments. Future research can track the mediating relationship of employee engagement between religiousity and high-performance work practices over time using a longitudinal methodology. In addition, future researchers can establish a relationship with other sectors such as manufacturing, hospitality, plantations, etc, to generalize the results.