Research overview

My current research interests are HQ-subsidiary relationships in MNCs, International HRM, Cross-cultural management, the role of language in international business and research methods in international business.

Research programmes

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. Details...
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. Details...
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. Details...
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). Details...
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. Details...
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. Details...

Selected recent publications

For more publications see All publications and Anne-Wil's books.

2008 - (with M. Pudelko) The Golden Triangle for MNCs: Standardization towards headquarters practices, standardization towards global best practices and localization, accepted for Organizational Dynamics. Available online...

2008 - (with A.J. Feely) 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...

2007 - (with J.B. Hocking, M. Brown) 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...

2007 - (with M. Pudelko) 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...

2007 - (with M. Pudelko) 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...

2006 - Response styles in cross-national mail survey research: A 26-country study, The International Journal of Crosscultural Management, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 243-266. Available online...

2006 - (with N.G. Noorderhaven) Knowledge flows in MNCs: An empirical test and extension of Gupta & Govindarajan's typology of subsidiary roles, International Business Review, vol. 15, no. 3. Available online...

2006 - (with N.G. Noorderhaven) Geographical Distance and the Role and Management Of Subsidiaries: The Case of Subsidiaries Down-Under, Asia-Pacific Journal of Management, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 167-185. Available online...

2005 - Australian Research output in Economics & Business: High volume, low impact?, Australian Journal of Management, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 183-200. Available online...

2005 - (with 32 country collaborators) The use of English questionnaires in cross-national research: Does cultural accommodation obscure national differences?, International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 213-224. Available online...

2004 - (with M.R. Olivas-Luján, S. McCoy) September 11, 2001: Two quasi-experiments on the influence of threats on cultural values and cosmopolitanism, International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, vol. 4 (2), pp. 211-228. Available online...

2004 - (with J.B. Hocking, M. Brown) A knowledge transfer perspective of strategic assignment purposes and their path-dependent outcomes, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 15 (3), pp. 565-586. Available online...

2004 - (with J. Van Ruysseveldt, eds.) International Human Resource Management, 2nd edition. London: Sage Publications, 2004. More about this book...

2003 - (with N.G. Noorderhaven) The "Country-Of-Origin Effect" In Multinational Corporations: Sources, Mechanisms And Moderating Conditions, Management International Review, vol. 43, special issue 2, pp. 47-66. Available online...

2003 - The role of culture in entry mode studies: from negligence to myopia?, Advances in International Management, vol. 15, pp. 75-127. Available online...

2003 - (with A.J. Feely) Language Management in Multinational Companies, Cross-cultural management: an international journal, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 37-52. Available online...

2003 - (with A.M. Sorge) The relative impact of country-of-origin and universal contingencies on internationalization strategies and corporate control in multinational enterprises: World-wide and European perspectives, Organisation Studies, vol. 24 (2), pp. 187-214. Available online...