Organizational embeddedness and its effect on performance: an exploratory analysis for Malaysian business managers by Lokhman Hakim Osman

“…In advancing the Malaysian industrial and business cause Malaysian business managers may have to reflect properly on the ‘myth of downsizing’ in inter-organization context. …”
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Exploring the hotspots and frontiers of voluntary disclosure studies around the world using bibliometric analysis by Mohd Shazwan Mohd Ariffin, Wan-Nordin Wan-Hussin, Siti Seri Delima Abdul Malak

“…As of January 12, 2020, a total of 520 publications on voluntary disclosure in the subject areas business, management, accounting, economics and finance were retrieved from Scopus core collection and analyzed. …”
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Developing and promoting a highland community livelihood for sustainable tourism: The case of Kg. Bundutuhan, Ranau, Sabah by Toh, Pei Sung, Awangku Hassanal Bahar Pengiran Bagul, Justin Sentian, Ramzah Dambul

“…The most crucial is identifying existing tourism assets (both tangible and non-tangible) and converting them into profitable business which are aggravated by a glaring lack of knowledge and skills in business management and marketing strategy. This study seeks to determine existing viable tourism assets of village and to establish a conceptual framework on how to develop these assets. …”
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A corpus-based collocational analysis of noun premodification types in academic writing by Ang, Leng Hong, Tan, Kim Hua, He, Mengyu

“…This study employs a corpus-based method in analysing the noun and noun premodification in journal articles relevant to the field of International Business Management. Following the frequency-based tradition, the noun and noun premodification are identified and extracted by using the node-and-collocate approach. …”
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Specificity in English for Academic Purposes (EAP): a corpus analysis of lexical bundles in academic writing by Ang, Leng Hong, Tan, Kim Hua

“…This study intends to take this debate a step further by employing a corpus-driven method in identifying a type of phraseological sequence, namely lexical bundles in a corpus of journal articles in the field of International Business Management (IBM). The lexical bundles were compared with those compiled by Simpson-Vlach and Ellis (2010) in their study of Academic Formulas List (AFL) to determine the specificity of the lexical bundles identified in this study. …”
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From lexical bundles to lexical frames: uncovering the extent of phraseological variation in academic writing by Ang, Leng Hong, Tan, Kim Hua

“…To bridge the gap in phraseology studies, this study therefore employed a corpus-driven approach to analyse the characteristics of a form of discontinuous phraseological sequence, namely lexical frames in a one-million-word corpus of research articles in International Business Management (IBM). The characteristics of lexical frames were observed in four aspects: the degrees of variability and predictability of lexical frames, the structures as well as the variable slot fillers of lexical frames. …”
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