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The study attempts to determine how the entrepreneurial orientation varies with the legal framework of teasmallholdings in Sri Lanka. The component of entrepreneurial orientation is frequently used as a dimension thatspecifies the level of entrepreneurship in an institution. The importance of entrepreneurial orientation in establishmentsis increasing in spite of size, age, and industry, based on the substantial effect on success and its growth. The popularmodel of unidimensional conceptualization of entrepreneurial orientation discusses three components namelyInnovation, Risk taking and Pro-activeness that co-vary and depend on each other and further could combine into asingle scale too. Several realistic research presented a complex model of entrepreneurial orientation which describedentrepreneurship as an establishment level behavior and highlighted that not only persons, but organizations too candisplay entrepreneurial behavior. The legal frameworks of the businesses have been created to represent the ownershipsof businesses that perform institutional, organizational and operational process with diverse disciplines or opinions.Legal framework of tea smallholdings or the type of legal structure could be assigned to either sole proprietorships,partnership, companies and other category. The study survey was carried out with 400 tea smallholdings in theKaluthara district in Sri Lanka to analyze the contrast of the entrepreneurial orientation with the legal framework oftheir ownership styles, using One-Way Analysis of Variance technique. The findings of the study indicated that therewere no mean differences in the groups among the ownership styles of tea smallholdings in Kaluthara district in SriLanka.

H K G S Ranasinghe, “DOES THE DEGREE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION CONTRAST THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF TEA SMALLHOLDINGS IN SRI LANKA?”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 8, Issue 2, pp. 18-28, February 2021.