Fundraising
List of Anne-Wil's grants
Despite regular funding applications, I have never been particularly successful in securing external funding. Fortunately, this has never prevented me from doing meaningful research.
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 in headquarter-subsidiary relationships.
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 - To secure funds for the empirical part of my doctoral research I displayed various entrepreneurial activities leveraging my research results. First, I wrote up professional articles about my research and sold them 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. Finally, I offered a subject-coded database comprised of some 1500 references in the area of International Business & Management - accumulated during my studies - 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.
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Anne-Wil Harzing is Emerita Professor of International Management at Middlesex University, London. She is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a select group of distinguished AIB members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the scholarly development of the field of international business. In addition to her academic duties, she also maintains the Journal Quality List and is the driving force behind the popular Publish or Perish software program.
