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      Prof Anne-Wil Harzing

      ROLE: Professor of International Management
      SCHOOL: Business School
      DEPARTMENT: Business School Research
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 4407
      EMAIL: A.Harzing@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Anne-Wil is Professor of International Management. Originally from the Netherlands, Anne-Wil has more than 25 years experience in academia and has worked in three countries at six different universities before joining Middlesex. Most recently, she was Associate Dean Research at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

        Her own research focuses on expatriate management, cross-cultural management, and multinational corporations, as well as the quality and impact of academic research. She has published and presented over 160 papers in international journals and conferences and is one of the world's top 1% most cited academics in Economics & Business.

        Anne-Wil also has a keen interest in issues relating to journal quality and research performance metrics. In this context she is the editor of the Journal Quality List, the provider of Publish or Perish, a software program that retrieves and analyses academic citations, and the author of "The Publish or Perish Book: Your guide to effective and responsible citation analysis".

         

        Languages Spoken

        Dutch: native language

        French: intermediate

        German: intermediate

        Spanish: beginners


        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Anne-Wil has taught courses at every level in the broad field of international management. She has a best-selling textbook on International Human Resource Management, which is currently in its 5th edition.

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Below is a selection of my recent publications. For a full list (more than 160 books, book chapters and academic papers), see Full list of publications.

        1. Zhang, L.E.; Harzing, A.W.; Fan, S.X. (2017) Managing Expatriates in China: A Language and Identity Perspective, London: Palgrave. More about this book...
        2. Harzing, A.W.; Alakangas, S. (2017) Microsoft Academic: Is the Phoenix getting wings?, Scientometrics, vol. 110, no. 1, pp. 371-383. Available online... - Publisher's version (read for free) - Press coverage in Scientific American and Nature
        3. Martin-Martin, A.; Orduna-Malea, E; Harzing, A.W.; Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2017) Can we use Google Scholar to identify highly-cited documents?, Journal of Informetrics, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 152-163. Available online... - Publisher's version
        4. Fan, S.X.; Harzing, A.W. (2017) Host country employees' ethnic identity confirmation: Evidence from interactions with ethnically similar expatriates, Journal of World Business, vol. 52, no. 5, 640-652. Available online... - Publisher's version (free access!)
        5. Harzing, A.W.; Alakangas, S. (2017) Microsoft Academic is one year old: the Phoenix is ready to leave the nest, Scientometrics, vol. 112, no. 3, pp. 1887-1894. Available online... - Publisher's version (read for free)
        6. Tenzer, H.; Terjesen, S.; Harzing, A.W. (2017) Language in International Business: A review and agenda for future research, Management International Review, vol. 57, no. 6, 815-854. Available online... - Publisher's version (free access!) - Presentation slides
        7. Fan, S.X.; Cregan, C.; Harzing, A.W.; Kӧhler, T. (2017) The benefits of being understood: The role of ethnic identity confirmation in expatriate-local employee interactions, Human Resource Management, DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21839. Available online... - Publisher's version
        8. Harzing, A.W. (2016) What, who or where? Rejoinder to identifying research topic development in Business and Management education research using legitimation code theory, Journal of Management Education, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 726-731. Available online... Publisher's version
        9. Harzing, A.W. (2016) Microsoft Academic (Search): a Phoenix arisen from the ashes?, Scientometrics, vol. 108, no. 3, pp. 1637-1647. Available online... - Publisher's version (read for free)
        10. Harzing, A.W. (2016) Why replication studies are essential: learning from failure and success, Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 563-568. Available online... - Publisher's version
        11. Zhang, L.E.; Harzing, A.W. (2016) From Dilemmatic Struggle to Legitimized Indifference: Expatriates’ host country language learning and its impact on the expatriate-HCE relationship, Journal of World Business, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 774-786. Available online... - Publisher's version (free access!)
        12. Harzing, A.W.; Adler N.J. (2016) Disseminating knowledge: From potential to reality – New open-access journals collide with convention, Academy of Management Learning & Education, vol 15, no. 1, pp. 140-156. Available online... - Publisher's version
        13. Harzing, A.W. (2016) Publish or Perish tips, a collection of tips to introduce users to the program's main functions in 80 easy chunks.
        14. Harzing, A.W.; Pudelko, M.; Reiche B.S. (2016) The bridging role of expatriates and inpatriates in knowledge transfer in multinational corporations, in press for Human Resource Management. Available online..
        15. Metz, I.; Harzing, A.W.; Zyphur, M. (2016) Of journal editors and editorial boards: Who are the trailblazers in increasing editorial board gender equality?, in press for British Journal of Management. Available online..
        16. Harzing, A.W.; Pudelko, M. (2016) Do we need to distance ourselves from the distance concept? Why home and host country context might matter more than (cultural) distance, in press for Management International Review. Available online...
        17. Harzing, A.W.; Alakangas, S. (2016) Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science: A longitudinal and cross-disciplinary comparison, in press for Scientometrics. Available online... - Publisher's version - Presentation slides - Video presentation of this article.
        18. Harzing, A.W.; Mijnhardt, W. (2015) Proof over promise: Towards a more inclusive ranking of Dutch academics in Economics & Business, Scientometrics, vol. 102, no. 1, pp. 727-749. Available online...
        19. Reiche B.S.; Harzing, A.W.; Pudelko, M. (2015) Why and how does shared language affect subsidiary knowledge inflows? A social identity perspective, Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 46, no.5, pp. 528-551. Available online...
        20. Harzing, A.W. (2015) Health warning: Might contain multiple personalities. The problem of homonyms in Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators, Scientometrics, vol. 105, no. 3, pp. 2259-2270. Available online... [Press coverage in The Times and the Times Higher Education].
        21. Pudelko, M.; Tenzer, H.; Harzing, A.W. (2015) Cross-cultural management and language studies within international business research: Past and present paradigms and suggestions for future research, in: Holden, N.; Michailova, S.; Tietze, S. The Routledge Compendium to Cross cultural management, Routledge. Available online....
        22. Harzing, A.W.; Alakangas, S.; Adams, D. (2014) hIa: An individual annual h-index to accommodate disciplinary and career length differences, Scientometrics, vol., no. 3, pp. 811-821. Available online...
        23. Tenzer, H.; Pudelko, M.; Harzing, A.W. (2014)The impact of language barriers on trust formation in multinational teams, Journal of International Business Studies, vol 45, no. 5, pp. 508-535. Available online...
        24. Harzing, A.W. (2014) A longitudinal study of Google Scholar coverage between 2012 and 2013, Scientometrics, vol. 98, no. 1, pp. 565-575. Available online...
        25. Harzing, A.W.; Pudelko, M. (2014) Hablas vielleicht un peu la mia language? A comprehensive overview of the role of language differences in headquarters-subsidiary communication, International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 696–717. Available online...
        26. Harzing, A.W.; Giroud, A.L.A. (2014) The competitive advantage of nations: An application to academia, Journal of Informetrics, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 29-42. Available online...
        27. Harzing, A.W.; Metz, I. (2013) Practicing what we preach: The geographic diversity of editorial boards, Management International Review, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 169-187. Available online...
        28. 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...
        29. 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...
        30. 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...
        31. 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...
        32. 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...
        33. 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...
        34. 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...
        35. 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...
        36. 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...
        37. 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...
        38. 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...
        39. 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...
        40. 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.]
        41. 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...
        42. 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...
        43. 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...
        44. 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...
        45. 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...
        46. 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.]
        47. 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...

        Publication Feed

        How you see me, how you don't: ethnic identity self-verification in interactions between local subsidiary employees and ethnically similar expatriates

        Fan, Shea X. and Harzing, Anne-Wil and Köhler, Tine (2018) How you see me, how you don't: ethnic identity self-verification in interactions between local subsidiary employees and ethnically similar expatriates. The International Journal of Human Resource Management . ISSN 0958-5192 (Published online first)

        Managing Expatriates in China: A Language and Identity Perspective

        Zhang, Ling Eleanor and Harzing, Anne-Wil and Fan, Shea (2018) Managing Expatriates in China: A Language and Identity Perspective. Palgrave Studies in Chinese Management . Palgrave MacMillan, London. ISBN 978-1137489074

        Microsoft Academic is one year old: the Phoenix is ready to leave the nest

        Harzing, Anne-Wil and Alakangas, Satu (2017) Microsoft Academic is one year old: the Phoenix is ready to leave the nest. Scientometrics, 112 (3). pp. 1887-1894. ISSN 0138-9130

        Language in international business: a review and agenda for future research

        Tenzer, Helene and Terjesen, Siri and Harzing, Anne-Wil (2017) Language in international business: a review and agenda for future research. Management International Review, 57 (6). pp. 815-854. ISSN 0938-8249

        Host country employees’ ethnic identity confirmation: evidence from interactions with ethnically similar expatriates

        Fan, Shea and Harzing, Anne-Wil (2017) Host country employees’ ethnic identity confirmation: evidence from interactions with ethnically similar expatriates. Journal of World Business, 52 (5). pp. 640-652. ISSN 1090-9516

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

        2012 - A competitive Faculty grant of A$10,000 for a project on the role and measurement of cultural distance in entry mode choice.

        2008 - A competitive Faculty grant of A$19,495 for a project on language differences and the Headquarter-Subsidiary relationship.

        2004 - An ARC Discovery Grant of A$191,000 for a 3-year research project entitled "Babel in Business: how language differences influence management in multinationals". This was the largest individual grant awarded for a project in Management since 2002 (no data available before that time).

        2004 - (with Isabel Metz) A competitive Faculty grant of A$8,000 for a project on diversity in editorial boards of academic journals in management.

        2002 - A competitive Faculty grant of A$10,000 to finalise a research project on language and culture in questionnaire research.

        2001 - A competitive University of Melbourne grant of A$24,000 for a research project on headquarters-subsidiary relationships, as one of only four proposals (out of fourteen applications) to be funded by the University.

        1999 - An application for a 4-year ESRC Research Fellowship for a total amount of nearly £170,000 was alpha-rated (highest rating) as one of only eleven proposals to achieve this rating (out of over forty original applications). However, only two out of the eleven alpha-rated proposals were funded; sadly, not mine.

        1993-1996 - In order to secure funds for the empirical part of my doctoral research I have displayed various entrepreneurial activities related to my research results. First, professional articles were written about parts of my research and sold to a Dutch journal in the area of Personnel Management. Second, I offered specialised company reports to all companies who participated in my survey and sold reports to several companies for a total of app. £1000. A subject-coded database comprising of some 1500 references in the area of international business and management that I had accumulated during my studies was offered to colleagues in the field by means of leaflets distributed at conferences and messages to mailing lists. Nearly 200 requests for information were received and a few dozen copies were sold for app. £25 each.

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        Anne-Wil is on the editorial board of Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, International Business Review, Thunderbird International Business Review, Journal of Global Mobility, European Journal of International Management, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Development International,  European Management Review, European Management Journal, and The International Journal of Management Reviews. In the past, she has also acted as Associate or Departmental Editor for Journal of International Business Studies, the International Journal of Cross Cultural Management and the Australian Journal of Management.

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