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Overview

Clay Dibrell is affiliated with the University of Mississippi in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their work focuses on several subfields, including Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Economics and Econometrics, as well as Management Information Systems.

Their research covers various topics such as Family Business Performance and Succession, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Corporate Finance and Governance, Sports Analytics and Performance, Big Data and Business Intelligence, Sports, Gender, and Society, and Working Capital and Financial Performance.

Clay Dibrell has contributed to several publications across respected journals. Notable papers include:

  • "SEW" What Do We Know and Where Do We Go? A Review of Socioemotional Wealth and a Way Forward (2020), published in Family Business Review
  • Data analytics and performance: The moderating role of intuition-based HR management in major league baseball (2020), published in Journal of Business Research
  • The influence of board social activity on firm performance (2023), published in Journal of Family Business Strategy
  • From family to families: pushing family entrepreneurship forward (2021), published in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
  • Strategic Change in Family Firms: A Review From an Institutional Environment and Firm Size Perspective (2024), published in Family Business Review

Research collaboration is an integral part of their work, with frequent co-authors including Chelsea Sherlock, Eric Clinton, David R. Marshall, Richard J. Gentry, and Esra Memili.

Clay Dibrell's publications appear repeatedly in specific venues, including:

  • Family Business Review
  • Journal of Family Business Strategy
  • Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
  • Journal of Business Research
  • International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship

Best Publications

  • Culture of Family Commitment and Strategic Flexibility: The Moderating Effect of Stewardship:

    Shaker A. Zahra;James C. Hayton;Donald O. Neubaum;Clay Dibrell

  • The Natural Environment, Innovation, and Firm Performance: A Comparative Study

    Justin B. Craig;Clay Dibrell

  • Fueling Innovation through Information Technology in SMEs

    Clay Dibrell;Peter S. Davis;Justin B. Craig

  • Leveraging Family‐Based Brand Identity to Enhance Firm Competitiveness and Performance in Family Businesses*

    Justin B. Craig;Clay Dibrell;Peter S. Davis

  • Linking the formal strategic planning process, planning flexibility, and innovativeness to firm performance

    Clay Dibrell;Justin B. Craig;Donald O. Neubaum

  • Social Issues in the Family Enterprise

    Anita Van Gils;Anita Van Gils;Clay Dibrell;Donald O. Neubaum;Justin B. Craig

  • “SEW” What Do We Know and Where Do We Go? A Review of Socioemotional Wealth and a Way Forward:

    R. Gabrielle Swab;Chelsea Sherlock;Erik Markin;Clay Dibrell

  • Natural Environment, Market Orientation, and Firm Innovativeness: An Organizational Life Cycle Perspective

    Clay Dibrell;Justin Craig;Eric Hansen

  • Long-Term Orientation in Publicly Traded Family Businesses: Evidence of a Dominant Logic

    Richard Gentry;Clay Dibrell;Jaemin Kim

  • Examining relationships among family influence, family culture, flexible planning systems, innovativeness and firm performance

    Justin B. Craig;Clay Dibrell;Robert Garrett

  • How managerial attitudes toward the natural environment affect market orientation and innovation

    Clay Dibrell;Justin B. Craig;Eric N. Hansen

  • Market Orientation, Innovativeness, and Performance of Food Companies

    Aaron J. Johnson;Charles Clay Dibrell;Eric Hansen

  • Competitive strategies and business performance: evidence from the adhesives and sealants industry

    Marilyn M. Helms;Clay Dibrell;Peter Wright

  • Balancing natural environmental concerns of internal and external stakeholders in family and non-family businesses

    Donald O. Neubaum;Clay Dibrell;Justin B. Craig

  • Stewardship Climate Scale: An Assessment of Reliability and Validity

    Donald O. Neubaum;Christopher H. Thomas;Clay Dibrell;Justin B. Craig

  • The impact of time on the strategy–performance relationship: Implications for managers

    Peter S. Davis;C.Clay Dibrell;Brian D. Janz

  • Organization design: the continuing influence of information technology

    C. Clay Dibrell;Thomas R. Miller

  • How and Why Norwegian MNCs Commit Resources Abroad: Beyond Choice of Entry Mode. (1)

    Trond Randoy;C. Clay Dibrell

  • Attention, Action, and Greenwash in Family-Influenced Firms? Evidence From Polluting Industries:

    Jaemin Kim;Samantha Fairclough;Clay Dibrell

  • Dynamic Strategic Planning: Achieving Strategic Flexibility Through Formalization

    C Dibrell;Jon Down;Lyndall Bull

  • The impact of a service-dominant focus strategy and stewardship culture on organizational innovativeness in family-owned businesses

    Clay Dibrell;Miriam Moeller

Frequent Co-Authors

Justin B. Craig
Justin B. Craig Bond University
Donald O. Neubaum
Donald O. Neubaum Florida Atlantic University
Eric Hansen
Eric Hansen Oregon State University
Ben L. Kedia
Ben L. Kedia University of Memphis
Esra Memili
Esra Memili University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Franz W. Kellermanns
Franz W. Kellermanns University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Kimberly A. Eddleston
Kimberly A. Eddleston Northeastern University
Trond Randøy
Trond Randøy University of Agder
Maura McAdam
Maura McAdam Dublin City University
Peter Wright
Peter Wright University of Memphis

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