Welcome to Harzing.com

This website includes Anne-Wil's resumé, research programs, and publications, including her academic career guides. It also hosts the CYGNA Women in Academia pages, the Journal Quality List, and software for citation analysis.

The Harzing.com blog features posts on academic publishing, creating research impact, doing (international) research, academic etiquette, the Publish or Perish software, academic careers, gender in academia, and Positive Academia. If you are an early career academic, your best starting point is the Working in academia page.

This web site has been online (with some periodic restyling) since 1999; it runs to 800 pages and over one million words. New and recently updated pages >>

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Featured pages and blog posts

Our Positive Academia Manifesto now published as a provocation essay

Launches our brand-new Positive Academia manifesto - our first in a series of publications to build a foundation for Positive Academia

17 Sep 2025 - Anne-Wil Harzing

Managing expatriates' identity: subtle desire, big impact

Highlights the key findings of the exciting work on ethnic identity and expatriation by one of my former PhD students Shea Fan

01 Nov 2018 - Shea Fan

Internal versus external promotion [1/4]

Part 1 of a 4-part post which explains why internal promotion in academia might be harder to achieve than external promotion and gives tips for successful applications

01 Sep 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing

Language in International Business: A review and agenda for future research

A new online paper reviewing 264 articles on language in IB

31 May 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing

The bridging role of expatriates and inpatriates

Illustrates how expatriates and inpatriates differ in terms of their roles in knowledge transfer to and from MNC headquarters

01 Dec 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing

Should we distance ourselves from the cultural distance concept?

Argues IB research would do well to reconsider its fascination with distance measures

27 Apr 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing

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