Readings and inspirations

Anne-Wil Harzing - Sat 31 Dec 2016 15:36 (updated Fri 28 Jul 2017 07:25)

Doing research that matters

• Adler, N.J. (2008). I am my mother's daughter: early developmental influences on leadership. European Journal of International Management, 2(1): 6-21. Available online...
• Adler, N.J; Harzing, A.W. (2009). When Knowledge Wins: Transcending the sense and nonsense of academic rankings, The Academy of Management Learning & Education, 8(1): 72-95. Available online...
• Adler, N.J., & Hansen, H. (2012). Daring to Care Scholarship that Supports the Courage of Our Convictions. Journal of Management Inquiry, 21(2): 128-139. Available online...

My blogs on gender in academia

• Female academics: Wives of the organization?
• How to prevent burn-out? About staying sane in academia
• Not a Post About Gender and Academia
• Would you ask a male academic the same question?

Interviews with inspirational female academics

Interviews with a range of inspirational female academics, all of whom have combined doing research that matters with a stellar academic career. Most of them all appeared in journals published by Emerald, a publisher that wants to make a difference by linking research and practice.

• Ke, J. (2011). An interview with Dr Anne Tsui, Motorola Professor of International Management: Part I – the scholarly journey. Journal of Chinese Human Resources Management, 2(2).
• Kawamura, K.M.; Eisler, R. (2013). Leadership: An interview with Nancy Adler, PhD, Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, 20(2)
• Kawamura, K.M. (2014). Kristine Marin Kawamura, PhD, interviews Susan E. Jackson, PhD, Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, 21(2)
• Moore, K. (2014). The life and times of a senior scholar: an interview with Jane Dutton, Journal of Management History, 20(2): 140-144.
• Williams, Z. (2016). Mary Beard: "The role of the academic is to make everything less simple", The Guardian, 23 April 2016.

Interesting blogs, websites, books

• Academic men explain things to me, a blog about mansplaining in academia, hilarious and sad in equal measure. No longer seems to accept new postings, but there are 74 pages of posts to "enjoy".
• Huff, A. (1990). Wives of the Organization, Anne Huff's insightful paper on how many academic women (and some men) take on the role of "wives of the organization". The role involves taking on many academic activities that, although essential to the smooth functioning of a university, are rarely rewarded or even consciously noticed, much like cooking the daily family dinner. Although written 25 years ago, it has lost none of its relevance.
• Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers. About the many behaviors that women learn in girlhood that ultimately sabotage them as adults.
• Mayer, D. (2017). How Not to Advocate for a Woman at Work, Harvard Business Review, 17 July.
• Bahn, K. (2014). Faking It: Women, Academia, and Impostor Syndrome