Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nuno Rosa Reis Author-X-Name-First: Nuno Rosa Author-X-Name-Last: Reis Author-Name: Fernando Manuel Pereira Oliveira Carvalho Author-X-Name-First: Fernando Manuel Pereira Oliveira Author-X-Name-Last: Carvalho Author-Name: José Vasconcelos Ferreira Author-X-Name-First: José Vasconcelos Author-X-Name-Last: Ferreira Title: Cross-border mergers and acquisitions: a bibliometric review and future research avenues Abstract: Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBMAs) are an important mode of international expansion and have attracted substantial scholarly attention in the last decades. The extant literature on CBMAs is fragmented and often presents contradictory perspectives which hinder the researchers' ability to understand the phenomenon. Therefore it is useful to analyse the extant literature on CBMAs, to make sense of what has been published, in a systematic and objective way. In this paper we conduct a bibliometric review of CBMA research over a 20-year period (1994-2013). Using a sample of 256 articles published in 69 journals we performed citation, co-citation and factor analyses, structural and longitudinal, to understand the most influential works and to observe the evolution of the themes and theoretical approaches used. We identified the importance of culture-related works as well as the increasing importance of resource-and knowledge-related approaches, whereas finance/economics perspectives have a decreasing influence. Journal: Int. J. of Bibliometrics in Business and Management Pages: 189-213 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2019 Keywords: mergers and acquisitions; cross-border M%As; international acquisitions; bibliometric review. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=97725 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbbm:v:1:y:2019:i:3:p:189-213 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bendegul Okumus Author-X-Name-First: Bendegul Author-X-Name-Last: Okumus Author-Name: Forest Ma Author-X-Name-First: Forest Author-X-Name-Last: Ma Title: Research trends on food safety and sanitation in hospitality and tourism Abstract: The present study examines research trends on food safety/sanitation in 16 leading hospitality and tourism (H%T) journals from 1976-2016. The researchers developed a database of 5,333 articles related to food. Of this number, only 45 articles were related to food safety and published across eight H%T journals from 1976 to 2016. Thus, despite the size of the industry and importance of the topic, there still remains a dearth of food safety/sanitation publications. This article provides the first systematic analysis on food safety/sanitation research in the H%T context. It offers an analysis of the broad features of literature on food safety in the H%T context with a focus on international collaboration, highly productive countries, institutions and authors, methods of research, publication years, and journal distribution. In addition to highlighting a scarcity in advanced statistical research methods and international collaboration, the research findings also suggest that the majority of the studies analysed were empirical and conducted using quantitative methods. Journal: Int. J. of Bibliometrics in Business and Management Pages: 214-224 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2019 Keywords: food safety; food sanitation; hospitality; tourism. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=97726 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbbm:v:1:y:2019:i:3:p:214-224 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sílvia Salustiano Author-X-Name-First: Sílvia Author-X-Name-Last: Salustiano Author-Name: Natália Barbosa Author-X-Name-First: Natália Author-X-Name-Last: Barbosa Title: Efficiency and subsidies: mapping and multidisciplinary analysis Abstract: This study aims to assess the roots, the evolution and the influence of literature on subsidies and efficiency in a variety of areas of knowledge such economics, management, business, agricultural policy and environmental sciences. By analysing 1,507 articles authored by 3,410 scientists and with 47,028 cited references and by using co-word analysis tools, different themes dealt with the relationship between subsidies and efficiency were disclosed and examined. The results have shown that efficiency and energy are the two themes that stand out, while subsidies are a secondary theme with a strong connection with efficiency research. Evidence shows that the literature on subsidies and efficiency embodies a relatively new field, which has remarkably consolidated over the last ten years as a research area. However, the roots of this literature are found in articles published between 1971 and 1998. At that time, the theoretical studies, mainly in the area of economics, have defined the main econometric models currently used in several areas of knowledge, including the measurement of subsidies effects on efficiency. Journal: Int. J. of Bibliometrics in Business and Management Pages: 225-250 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2019 Keywords: bibliometrics; subsidies; efficiency; web of science; WoS. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=97727 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbbm:v:1:y:2019:i:3:p:225-250 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Debra L. Casey Author-X-Name-First: Debra L. Author-X-Name-Last: Casey Author-Name: G. Steven McMillan Author-X-Name-First: G. Steven Author-X-Name-Last: McMillan Title: Employee voice and silence: a bibliometric analysis of the literature Abstract: Employee voice and silence as constructs have received substantial research efforts for over four decades primarily in the work-focused academic literatures. However, we are concerned that these terms are being used across many disciplines with little cohesion as to meaning. By examining the extant literature using bibliometric techniques, we hope to make a contribution in better defining their usages and describing the underlying structure of the employee voice and silence literature. We examine 376 articles, notes and book chapters derived from the Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science. Using advanced bibliometric mapping tools, we plot the intellectual base and research front of the voice and silence literature. Our findings indicate that employee silence and employee voice are terms that are largely claimed by the organisational behaviour (OB) and human resource management (HRM) literatures. Further, these terms are defined much more narrowly than in the literature from the industrial relations or employment relations (ER) disciplines. Journal: Int. J. of Bibliometrics in Business and Management Pages: 251-266 Issue: 3 Volume: 1 Year: 2019 Keywords: employee voice; silence; bibliometrics; visuals. File-URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=97729 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbbm:v:1:y:2019:i:3:p:251-266