2026 Alain Verbeke: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	77	183	169	9	8	475	32711

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Canada Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Canada Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Alain Verbeke is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada with a research focus mainly in the field of Business, Management, and Accounting. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Strategy and Management, Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Communication.

Their research topics cover a range of areas such as International Business and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Innovation and Knowledge Management, Corporate Finance and Governance, International Student and Expatriate Challenges, Family Business Performance and Succession, Global Trade and Economics, and Business Strategy and Innovation.

Verbeke's recent scholarly contributions include papers published in well-regarded venues. Selected recent papers are:

"International HRM insights for navigating the COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for future research and practice" (2020, Journal of International Business Studies)
"The contributions of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to international business research" (2020, Journal of International Business Studies)
"Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Really Change the Governance of Global Value Chains?" (2020, British Journal of Management)
"The Dark Side of Digital Globalization" (2020, Academy of Management Perspectives)
"Beyond addressing multicollinearity: Robust quantitative analysis and machine learning in international business research" (2022, Journal of International Business Studies)

Their frequent coauthors include I. H. Ian Lee, Robin Roberts, Peter Zámborský, Peter Enderwick, and Deborah Delaney, reflecting collaborative efforts across multiple projects.

Verbeke has published in several key academic venues, notably:

Journal of International Business Studies
Academy of Management Proceedings
British Journal of Management
Journal of World Business
Management and Organization Review

The scholar has authored books published by Cambridge University Press and Springer International Publishing. Titles include "International Business Strategy" (2021) and "Contemporary International Business in the Asia-Pacific Region" (2020) published by Cambridge University Press, alongside "Crises and Disruptions in International Business" (2022) through Springer International Publishing.

Best Publications

Proactive environmental strategies: a stakeholder management perspective

Kristel Buysse;Alain Verbeke

2794
Citations
A Perspective on Regional and Global Strategies of Multinational Enterprises

Alan M. Rugman;Alain Verbeke

2110
Citations
A perspective on regional and global strategies of multinational enterprises

Alan M Rugman;Alain Verbeke

2110
Citations
Subsidiary‐specific advantages in multinational enterprises

Alan M. Rugman;Alain Verbeke

1685
Citations
PROMETHEE and AHP: The design of operational synergies in multicriteria analysis.: Strengthening PROMETHEE with ideas of AHP

Cathy Macharis;Johan Springael;Klaas De Brucker;Alain Verbeke

1164
Citations
Edith Penrose's contribution to the resource-based view of strategic management

Alan M. Rugman;Alain Verbeke

965
Citations
Corporate strategies and environmental regulations: an organizing framework

Alan M. Rugman;Alain Verbeke

925
Citations
A Note on the Transnational Solution and the Transaction Cost Theory of Multinational Strategic Management

Alan M. Rugman;Alain Verbeke

811
Citations
Beyond Hofstede and GLOBE: Improving the quality of cross-cultural research

Rosalie L Tung;Alain Verbeke

810
Citations
Extending the theory of the multinational enterprise: internalization and strategic management perspectives

Alan M Rugman;Alan M Rugman;Alain Verbeke;Alain Verbeke

772
Citations
International HRM insights for navigating the COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for future research and practice.

Paula Caligiuri;Helen De Cieri;Dana Minbaeva;Alain Verbeke;Alain Verbeke;Alain Verbeke

760
Citations
A generalized double diamond approach to the global competitiveness of Korea and Singapore

H. Chang Moon;Alan M. Rugman;Alain Verbeke

568
Citations
International Business Strategy

Alain Verbeke

566
Citations
Fifty years of international business theory and beyond

Alan M. Rugman;Alain Verbeke;Quyen T. K. Nguyen

547
Citations
Re-conceptualizing Bartlett and Ghoshal's Classification of National Subsidiary Roles in the Multinational Enterprise

Alan Rugman;Alain Verbeke;Wenlong Yuan

415
Citations
Liabilities of regional foreignness and the use of firm-level versus country-level data: a response to Dunning et al. (2007)

Alan M Rugman;Alain Verbeke

391
Citations
The Transaction Cost Economics Theory of the Family Firm: Family‐Based Human Asset Specificity and the Bifurcation Bias

Alain Verbeke;Liena Kano

384
Citations
The contributions of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to international business research

Stav Fainshmidt;Michael A Witt;Ruth V Aguilera;Ruth V Aguilera;Alain Verbeke;Alain Verbeke;Alain Verbeke

383
Citations
Towards a theory of regional multinationals: A transaction cost economics approach

Alain Verbeke;Alan Rugman

370
Citations
The end of the opportunism vs trust debate: Bounded reliability as a new envelope concept in research on MNE governance

Alain Verbeke;Nathan S Greidanus

305
Citations
Corporate Strategy and International Environmental Policy

Alan M. Rugman;Alain Verbeke

305
Citations
Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy

Alain Verbeke

286
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan M. Rugman University of Reading

Cathy Macharis Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Rob van Tulder Erasmus University Rotterdam

Theo Notteboom Ghent University

Rosalie L. Tung Simon Fraser University

Lucia Piscitello Polytechnic University of Milan

Rajneesh Narula University of Reading

Kimberly A. Eddleston Northeastern University

Karel Brookhuis University of Groningen

Marc Jegers Vrije Universiteit Brussel

External Links

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