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PROF ANNE-WIL HARZING



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Organization: Management and Marketing
Position: PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.management.unimelb.edu.au/staff/staffPage.cfm?StaffId=25
Work: 8344 3724
Room: 612
Level: 06
Building: Babel Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
International Human Resource Management Australia, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, United States of America
Cross cultural management Netherlands, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America
HQ-subsidiary relationships Germany, Japan, United States of America, England, Netherlands
International research methods Germany, Japan, United States of America, England, Netherlands
Female managers and academics United States of America, England, Germany

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Netherlands Tilburg University Research
Netherlands University of Groningen Research
Switzerland International Institute for Management Development Research
United Kingdom Aston Business School Research
United Kingdom University of Bradford Research
Mexico Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies Research
Greece Athens University of Economics and Business Research
United States College of William & Mary Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts Saxion Hogescholen Enschede
Master of Arts Maastricht University
PhD University of Bradford 15-May-1998

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Academy of International Business Member 01-Nov-1998
Member Academy of Management Member 01-Aug-1999
Member European Academy of Management Member 01-Aug-2004
Member European Group for Organizational Studies Member 01-Jan-1998 31-Dec-2000
Member European International Business Academy Member 01-Dec-1994
Member Strategic Management Society Member 01-Jan-1996 31-Dec-1998
Member International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Member 01-Jan-2002

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Australian New Zealand Academy of Management All-conference best paper award & International Management stream best paper award 05-Dec-2008
Prize Wiley Publishers (Human Resource Management) Ulrich Award for best paper in Human Resource Management 2007 01-Dec-2008
Prize Academy of International Business Best paper in the International Strategic Management track 26-Jun-2007
Prize European International Business Academy Award for the Best Thesis Proposal 14-Dec-1994
Prize European Group of Organization Studies Roland Calori Prize for the best paper published in Organization Studies 2003-2004 15-Jul-2005
Prize Australian New Zealand International Business Academy Best Paper Award in the International Management Stream 08-Nov-2005

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Babel in business: how language differences influence management in multinationals Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Headquarters-subsidiary relationships and the country-of-origin effect
    Year: 2008
    Book: New perspectives in international business research - progress in international business research
    Publisher: JAI Press(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • Aribtrary decisions in ranking studies: A commentary on Xu, Yalcinkaya, and Seggie (2008)
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Management
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 685-689
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  • Descending from the ivory tower: reflections on the relevance and future of country-of-origin research
    Year: 2008
    Journal: European Management Review
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 264 - 270
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  • Google Scholar as a new source for citation analysis
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 61-73
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  • On becoming a high impact journal in international business and management
    Year: 2008
    Journal: European Journal of International Management
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 115-118
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  • The golden triangle for MNCs:Standardization towards headquarters practices, standardization towards global best practices and localization

    Year: 2008
    Journal: Organizational Dynamics
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 394-404
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  • The impact of culture on interactions: five lessons learned from the European Commission
    Year: 2008
    Journal: European Management Journal
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 325-334
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  • The language barrier and its implications for HQ-subsidiary relationships
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Cross Cultural Management
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 49-61
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Getting closer to the action:examining leaders' behavioral intent with GLOBE'S leadership dimensions across 22 countries


    Year: 2008
    Event name: 23rd ANZAM conference
    Conference Publication: Managing in the pacific century
    Page numbers: 1-23
    Publisher: University of Auckland(Auckland)
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  • Cultural imprinting and language priming: Competitive versus co-operative behaviour in a prisoner's dilemma game
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Academy of international business conference
    Conference Publication: Challenges to international business
    Page numbers: 1-30
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Australian and New Zealand subsidiaries: victims of geographic isolation?
    Year: 2007
    Book: The internationalisation strategies of small-country firms: the Australian experience of globalisation
    Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing(Cheltenham)
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Journal Articles

  • How is European management in Europe? An analysis of past, present and future management practices in Europe


    Year: 2007
    Journal: European Journal of International Management
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 206 - 224
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  • Balancing global and local strategic contexts: expatriate knowledge transfer, applications, and learning within a transnational organization
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Human Resource Management
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 513 - 533
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  • Country-of-origin, localization, or dominance effect? An empirical investigation of HRM practices in foreign subsidiaries
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Human Resource Management
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 535 - 559
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  • Ranking journals in business and management: a statistical analysis of the Harzing data set
    Year: 2007
    Journal: European Journal of Information Systems
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 303 - 316
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  • The effect of corporate-level organizational factors on the transfer of human resource management practices: European and US MNCs and their Greek subsidiaries
    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Journal of Human Resource Management
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 2057 - 2074
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Ranking and rating in native-language versus English-language questionnaires: a methodological comparison


    Year: 2007
    Event name: EIBA annual meeting
    Conference Publication: International business, local development and science-technology relationships
    Page numbers: 1 - 29
    Publisher: Faculty of Political Science University of Catania
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  • Ranking versus rating: what is the best way to reduce response and language bias in cross-national research?
    Year: 2007
    Event name: ANZIBA 2007
    Conference Publication: Institutions and organisations in an international context
    Page numbers: 1-25
    Publisher: ANZIBA(Wellington)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Geographical distance and the role and management of subsidiaries: The case of subsidiaries down-under
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Management
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 167-185
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  • Knowledge flows in MNCs: An empirical test and extension of Gupta and Govindarajan's typology of subsidiary roles
    Year: 2006
    Journal: International Business Review
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 195-214
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  • Response Styles in Cross-national Survey Research: A 26-country Study
    Year: 2006
    Journal: International Journal of Cross Cultural Management
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 243-266
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • An Analysis of th Gender Diversity in Editorial Boards: How do International Business Journals Compare?
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 2006 ANZIBA Conference
    Conference Publication: Conference Proceedings of the 2006 ANZIBA Conference
    Publisher: ANZIBA(Wellington)
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  • County of Origin, Localization and Dominance Effects in the Transfer of HRM Practices: US, Japanese and German MNCs?
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 33rd Annual Conference Academy of International Business, UK Chapter
    Conference Publication: International Business in the Age of Anxiety
    Publisher: Manchester Business School(Manchester)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Australian Research output in Economics & Business: High quantity, low impact?
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Journal of Management
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 183-200
    Publisher: Australian Graduate School of Management
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  • The use of English questionnaires in cross-national research: Does cultural accommodation obscure national differences?
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Journal of Cross Cultural Management
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 213-222
    Publisher: Sage Publications(London)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • MNC Subsidiaries Down-Under: Victims of Their Geographical Isolation?
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Australian New Zealand International Business Academy
    Conference Publication: ANZIBA Annual Meeting
    Page numbers: 1-22
    Publisher: Monash University(Clayton)
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  • Managing turnover of local staff at multinational companies: the role of international staffing
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Australian New Zealand International Business Academy
    Conference Publication: ANZIBA Annual Meeting
    Page numbers: 1-23
    Publisher: Monash University(Clayton)
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  • The effect of organisational factors on the transfer of human resource management practices: European and US MNCs and their Greek subsidiaries
    Year: 2005
    Event name: International Human Resource Management: Making a Difference in a World of Differences
    Conference Publication: International Conference on International Human Resource Management
    Page numbers: 1-21
    Publisher: International Conference on International Human Resource Management(Cairns)
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  • The role of inpatriate assignments in multinational corporations: An exploratory case study
    Year: 2005
    Event name: International Human Resource Management: Making a Difference in a World of Differences
    Conference Publication: International Human Resource Management Conference
    Page numbers: 1-23
    Publisher: International Conference on International Human Resource Management(Cairns)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Composing an international staff
    Year: 2004
    Book: International human resource managment
    Publisher: Sage Publications(London)
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  • Does language influence response styles? A test of the cultural accommodation hypothesis in fourteen countries
    Year: 2004
    Book: Ongoing themes in psychology and culture
    Publisher: International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology(Washington)
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  • Internationalization and the international division of labour
    Year: 2004
    Book: International Human resource management
    Publisher: Sage Publications(London)
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  • Strategy and structure of multinational companies
    Year: 2004
    Book: International human resource management
    Publisher: Sage Publications(London)
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Journal Articles

  • A knowledge transfer perspective of strategic assignment purposes and their path-dependent outcomes
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Journal of Human Resource Management
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 565-586
    Publisher: Routledge(Hants)
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  • Host country specific factors and the transfer of human resource management practices in multinational companies
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Journal of Manpower
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 518-534
    Publisher: Emerald
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  • Human Resource Management in Greece Have the colours of culture faded away?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Journal of Cross Cultural Management
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 59-76
    Publisher: Sage Publications(London)
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  • September 11, 2001 Two quasi-experiments on the influence of threats on cultural valules and cosmopolitanism
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Journal of Cross Cultural Management
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 211-228
    Publisher: Sage Publications(London)
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  • The role of culture in entry-mode studies: From neglect to myopia?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Advances in International Management
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 75-127
    Publisher: Elsevier
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  • Think piece Expatriate failure: time to abandon the concept?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Career Development International
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 616-626
    Publisher: Emerald
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Knowledge flows in MNC's - An empirical test and extension of Gupta and Govindarajan's typology of subsidiary roles
    Year: 2004
    Event name: European Internation Business Academy Conference
    Conference Publication: European International Buisness Academy Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-27
    Publisher: European International Buisness Academy(Ljubljana)
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  • Response styles in cross-national mail survey research: are we comparing apples and oranges?
    Year: 2004
    Event name: ANZIBA 2004 Conference
    Conference Publication: ANZIBA 2004
    Page numbers: 1-26
    Publisher: The University of Canberra(Canberra)
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  • Working in the enlarged european union ideal jobs and international mobility amoung university students in sixteen
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Eurpoean International Buisness Academy Conference
    Conference Publication: EIBA Conference
    Page numbers: 1-26
    Publisher: European International Buisness Academy(Ljubljana)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Language management in multinational companies
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Cross Cultural Management
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 37-52
    Publisher: Barmarick Publications
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  • The "country of origin" effect in multinational corporations: Sources, mechanisms and moderating conditions
    Year: 2003
    Journal: MIR - Management International Review
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 47-66
    Publisher: Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Th. Gabler GmbH
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  • The relative impact of country of origin and universal contingencies on internationalisation strategies and corporate control in multinational enterprises: Worldwide and European perspectives
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Organization Studies
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 187-214
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Host Country Specific Factors and the Transfer of Human Resource Managment Practices in Multinational Companies
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Exploring the Mosaic Developing the Discipline
    Conference Publication: Exploring the Mosaic Developing the Discipline, Full Proceedings of the 7th Conference on International Human Resource Management
    Page numbers: 1-26
    Publisher: Interesource Group (Ireland)(Dublin)
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  • The Strategic Outcomes of Expatriate Assignments: Are They Deliberate or Emergent?
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Exploring the Mosaic Developing the Discipline
    Conference Publication: Exploring the Mosaic Developing the Discipline, Full Proceedings of the 7th Conference on International Human Resource Management
    Page numbers: 1-39
    Publisher: Interesource Group (Ireland)(Dublin)
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  • The Use of English Questionnaires in Cross - National Research: Does Cultural Accommodation Obsecure National DIfferences?
    Year: 2003
    Event name: The Challenge of International Business
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the ANZIBA International Business Academy Conference
    Page numbers: 1-21
    Publisher: The University of Otago(Dunedin)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Headquarters-subsidiary Relationships in Multinational Companies: A British-German Comparison
    Year: 2002
    Book: Challenges for European Management in a Global Context - Experiences from Britain and Germany
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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Journal Articles

  • Acquisitions versus greenfield investments: international strategy and management of entry modes
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Strategic Management Journal
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 211-227
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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  • Are our referencing errors undermining our scholarship and credibility? The case of expatriate failure rates
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Organizational Behavior
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 127-148
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  • The Interaction Between Language and Culture: A Test of the Cultural Accommodation Hypothesis in Seven Countries
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal for Language and Intercultural Communication
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 120-139
    Publisher: Multilingual Matters(Clevedon)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A comparative analysis of HRM practices in subsidiaries of MNC's and local companies in Greece
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 28th EIBA (European International Business Academy) Conference
    Conference Publication: 28th EIBA Conference
    Volume: Internet
    Page numbers: 1-28
    Publisher: Department of International and European Economic Studies(Athens)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • An analysis of the the functions of international transfer of managers in MNCs
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Employee Relations
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 581-598
    Publisher: Emerald
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  • Of bears, bumble-bees, and spiders: the role of expatriates in controlling foreign subsidiaries
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of World Business Management
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 366-379
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Who's in charge? An empirical study of executive staffing practices in foreign subsidiaries
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Human Resource Management
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 139-158
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(New York)
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