Research programmes

My research interests have broadened over the years and now span topics that range from International and Cross-cultural Management to the international research process and the wider impact of academic research.

To keep things manageable, I tend to subdivide my research work into the following programmes. The boundaries between them are not rigid; much of the work I do extends over several areas.

Programme Description
International HRM & Staffing Policies Focuses on several aspects relating to the human dimension of international business. Specific areas of interests are expatriates as control mechanisms in MNCs, expatriate failure, staffing policies and the role of expatriates in knowledge transfer in MNCs.
HQ-Subsidiary Relationships in MNCs Investigates various aspects of strategy, structure, and control mechanisms in MNCs. Specific areas of interest include country-of-origin effects, entry modes, and MNC typologies.
The International Research Process Reviews research process issues in international research, often critically evaluating received wisdom. Projects have focused on academic referencing, international mail surveys, translation issues, stability of cultural dimensions, and the role of cultural distance in international research.
Transfer of HRM Practices in MNCs Researches one of the central questions in the literature on MNCs: the extent to which their subsidiaries act and behave as local firms (local isomorphism) versus the extent to which their practices resemble those of the parent company or some other global standard (internal consistency).
Language in International Business Explores the importance of language barriers in international business and its implications for the management of MNCs. Uses a social identity perspective and aims to integrate the fields of international management, socio-linguistics and cross-cultural training and communication.
Quality and Impact of Academic Research This programme aims to develop a critical assessment of the quality and impact of academics, academic research, and academic journals. A separate project under this programme that has gained a lot of attention internationally, is a large-scale assessment of citation-based impact metrics.

Selected recent publications

Below is a small selection of Anne-Wil's recent publications. For a full list (more than 160 books, book chapters and academic papers), see Full list of publications.

  1. Harzing, A.W.; Metz, I. (2013) Practicing what we preach: The geographic diversity of editorial boards, Management International Review. Available online...
  2. Harzing, A.W. (2013) A preliminary test of Google Scholar as a source for citation data: A longitudinal study of Nobel Prize winners, Scientometrics, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 1057-1075. Available online...
  3. Harzing, A.W.; Reiche B.S.; Pudelko, M. (2013) Challenges in international survey research: A review with illustrations and suggested solutions for best practice, European Journal of International Management, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 112-134. Available online...
  4. Harzing, A.W. (2013) Document categories in the ISI Web of Knowledge: Misunderstanding the Social Sciences?, Scientometrics, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 23-34. Available online...
  5. Harzing, A.W.; Pudelko, M. (2013) Language competencies, policies and practices in multinational corporations: A comprehensive review and comparison of Anglophone, Asian, Continental European and Nordic MNCs, Journal of World Business, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 87-97. Available online...
  6. Harzing, A.W.; Brown, M.; Köster, K., Zhao, S. (2012) Response style differences in cross-national research: dispositional and situational determinants, Management International Review, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 341-363. Available online...
  7. Harzing, A.W.; Köster, K.; Magner, U. (2011) Babel in Business: The language barrier and its solutions in the HQ-subsidiary relationship, Journal of World Business, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 279-287. Available online...
  8. Reiche B.S.; Kraimer, M.L.; Harzing, A.W. (2011) Why do international assignees stay? An organizational embeddedness perspective, Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 521-544. Available online...
  9. Akkermans, D.; Harzing, A.W.; Witteloostuijn, A. van (2010) Cultural accommodation and language priming. Competitive versus cooperative behavior in a prisoner’s dilemma game, Management International Review, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 559-584. Available online...
  10. Metz, I.; Harzing, A.W. (2009) Gender diversity in editorial boards of Management journals, The Academy of Management Learning & Education, vol 8, no. 4, pp. 540-557. Available online...
  11. Noorderhaven, N.G.; Harzing, A.W. (2009) Knowledge sharing and social interaction within MNEs, Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 719-741. Available online...
  12. Harzing, A.W.; and 26 collaborators (2009) Rating versus ranking: what is the best way to reduce response and language bias in cross-national research?, International Business Review, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 417-432. Available online...
  13. Reiche, B.S.; Harzing, A.W.; Kraimer, M.L. (2009) The role of international assignees' social capital in creating inter-unit intellectual capital: A cross-level model, Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 509-526 . Available online...
  14. Adler, N.; Harzing, A.W. (2009) When Knowledge Wins: Transcending the sense and nonsense of academic rankings, The Academy of Management Learning & Education, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 72-95. Available online... [Winner of the 2009 AMLE Outstanding article of the year award, free download courtesy of AoM.]
  15. Harzing, A.W.; Wal, R. van der (2009) A Google Scholar h-index for journals: An alternative metric to measure journal impact in Economics & Business?, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 60, no. 1, pp 41-46. Available online...
  16. Pudelko, M.; Harzing, A.W. (2008) The Golden Triangle for MNCs: Standardization towards headquarters practices, standardization towards global best practices and localization, Organizational Dynamics, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 394–404. Available online...
  17. Harzing, A.W.; Wal, R. van der (2008) Google Scholar as a new source for citation analysis?, Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 62-71. Available online...
  18. Harzing, A.W.; Feely, A.J. (2008) The language barrier and its implications for HQ-subsidiary relationships, Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 49-60. Available online...
  19. Hocking, J.B.; Brown, M.; Harzing, A.W. (2007) Balancing global and local strategic contexts: Expatriate knowledge transfer, applications and learning within a transnational organization, Human Resource Management, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 513-533. Available online...
  20. Pudelko, M.; Harzing, A.W. (2007) Country-of-Origin, Localization or Dominance Effect? An empirical investigation of HRM practices in foreign subsidiaries, Human Resource Management, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 535-559. Available online... [Winner of the 2007 Ulrich-Lake award for the best paper published in Human Resource Management.]
  21. Pudelko, M.; Harzing, A.W. (2007) How European is management in Europe? An analysis of past, present and future management practices in Europe, European Journal of International Management, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 206-224. Available online...