Doing International Research

This page contains several resources and links that might be useful to students and academics pursuing international research. For more papers, see my white papers page.

Musings of a recent graduate (1997) - Anne-Wil Harzing

An epilogue with my personal recommendations on how to improve the quality of (international) research, written after the completion of my PhD thesis.

Key issues in international survey research (2007) - B. Sebastian Reiche and Anne-Wil Harzing

In this paper, we make an attempt to explore these issues in more detail and offer possible solutions to address them. While cross-cultural investigation is not limited to survey research but includes a range of qualitative methods of data collection, we focus our discussion on the collection of international and cross-cultural data through questionnaires. We begin by identifying key methodological challenges in cross-cultural survey research. Subsequently, we describe several research practices to cope with these challenges, structuring our discussion along the various stages of the research process.

AoM Denver Professional Development Workshop

2002 - The slides and other materials used and distributed during the Doing International Research workshop held at the Academy of Management meeting in Denver, Colorado, from 9-14 August 2002.

• How to survive international mail surveys PDF download (217 KB)
  Anne-Wil Harzing, University of Melbourne, Australia
  
• Using the World Wide Web for International Management. Research: Expand your Capabilities, but with Caution PDF download (267 KB)
  Miguel R. Olivas-Luján, ITESM, Mexico and University of Pittsburgh, USA
  
• Issues of international intercultural research PDF download (49 KB, slides) PDF download (85 KB, background materials)
  Gerhard Fink, Vienna University, Austria
  
• Doing it in international networks PDF download (182 KB)
  Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Vienna University, Austria
  
• How culture-specific is intercultural training? PDF download (42 KB)
  Stefan Kammhuber, University of Regensburg, Germany
  
• Corporate elites as informants in qualitative international business research PDF download (30 KB)
  Rebecca Marschan-Piekkari, Swedish School of Economics, Finland
  

Hofstede and Globe cultural dimensions

You want to use the Hofstede or Globe cultural dimensions in your study? You don't want to spend ages finding them and typing them up? We have done that for you and included them in an Excel spreadsheet. You can download it here.

Research papers and presentations on international research

The following of my research papers and presentations might also be of interest:

• Response Styles in Cross-National Survey Research: A 26-Country Study
• September 11, 2001: Two quasi-experiments on the influence of threats on cultural values and cosmopolitanism
• The role of culture in entry mode studies: From neglect to myopia?
• Are our referencing errors undermining our scholarship and credibility? The case of expatriate failure rates
• Cross-national industrial mail surveys: Why do response rates differ between countries?
• Response rates in international mail surveys: Results of a 22-country study
• The use of English questionnaires in cross-national research
• Research quality, journal rankings and the RQF
• Research quality - a comparative perspective