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Types of Englishes and the case of maritime English: some insights
Annals Constanta Maritime University, 2018 The role of English as a world language can be traced back to its formal role as the dominant language of the British Empire, whereby Standard British English has diversified into numerous regional and local varieties of ''new Englishes''. The paper is an attempt to make a theoretical overview of the role of English nowadays, analyzing some of its ...
Ioana Raluca Visan, Mircea Georgescu
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Green human resource management is increasingly recognised as essential for integrating environmental concerns into organisational strategies. Drawing on qualitative data from 30 professionals in Nigeria's oil and gas industry, this study explores how inconsistencies between employees' environmental values and GHRM practices influence ...
Winifred Aina +2 more
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The Irish Maritime Transport Economist Volume 7 [PDF]
, 2010 The Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO) of the Marine Institute publishes the Irish Maritime Transport Economist each year to provide a descriptive statistical analysis of the Irish ports and shipping services sector, as well as the many factors ...
Irish Maritime Development Office
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transformative change is required to address persistent and systemic drivers of biodiversity loss. There is an urgent need for innovative solutions that tackle root causes in place‐specific contexts. Evidence indicates that small, innovative, purpose‐driven businesses can serve as vehicles for developing place‐based solutions.
Shova Thapa Karki, Bradley D. Parrish
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From Promise to Practice: A Systematic Review of Sustainability‐Linked Loans
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT By linking loan terms to predefined environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals, sustainability‐linked loans (SLLs) can incentivise banks and corporations towards sustainability. Despite rapid growth, research remains scant and questions remain about SLLs' financial, organisational and sustainability impacts and how they differ from other
Elias Porse, Aurélien Acquier
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Behavioral SciencesThe present study investigates the effects of token frequency, type frequency, and constituency on L2 compositional multiword sequence (CMS) processing among 60 Chinese L2 English speakers at two proficiency levels, using an online phrasal decision task.
Yingying Xu, Yang Yu
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Making Value‐Chain Risks Visible: Extending ENCORE for Systemic Insights
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Businesses in all sectors, including downstream segments, depend on biodiversity and the ecosystem services it sustains, yet firms also exert pressures that accelerate biodiversity loss. The latter generates material risks for both companies and their financial stakeholders.
Hjalmar Funke +3 more
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Expectations and willingness of maritime english students toward ICT-integrated textbooks
Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language EducationThis study investigates Indonesian maritime students’ expectations and willingness to adopt ICT-integrated textbooks, addressing the limited interactivity and outdated nature of conventional Maritime English materials.
Yusi Rahmawati +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The last five years of research on sustainability labelling, reported in 175 journal articles, documents its effectiveness in increasing consumer choices of more sustainable food products. Some sustainability labels come out as stronger than others and their impact varies across products, countries, and individual consumers, depending on label
John Thøgersen +2 more
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Maritime English as a code-tailored ESP
Ibérica, 2018 Maritime English (ME), as a type of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), is somewhat different in that its instruction and research are founded on specific international legal procedures.
Yan Zhang, Clive Cole
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