2026 David B. Balkin: 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	44	1320	1234	559	510	114	15282

Overview

David B. Balkin is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on business, management, and social sciences, with a particular emphasis on organizational behavior, human resource management, and gender studies. Their publications reveal a sustained interest in topics such as job satisfaction, gender diversity and inequality, corporate social responsibility reporting, and digital transformation within the workforce.

Their recent academic contributions include the following papers:

When gig workers become essential: Leveraging customer moral self-awareness beyond COVID-19 (2022), published in Business Horizons
Theorizing the relationship between discretionary employee benefits and individual performance (2022), published in Human Resource Management Review
Unpacking the effect of autonomous motivation on workplace performance: Engagement and distributive justice matter! (2021), published in European Management Review
The demotivating impact of absenteeism in nursing homes (2021), published in Journal of Nursing Management
Beyond the Brave New Nudge: Activating Ethical Reflection over Behavioral Reaction (2023), published in Academy of Management Perspectives

Frequent coauthors contributing to their scholarship include:

Julian Friedland
Len J. Treviño
Claude Roussillon Soyer
Kristian Ove R. Myrseth
Rudi K. F. Bresser

Their work appears regularly in journals such as:

Human Resource Management Review
Academy of Management Perspectives
Business Horizons
European Management Review
Journal of Nursing Management

Their studies span multiple subfields within social sciences and business, notably including organizational behavior and human resource management, gender studies, sociology and political science, strategy and management, and marketing.

Key topics covered by their research include:

Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
Gender Diversity and Inequality
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
Management and Organizational Studies
Digital Economy and Work Transformation
Sharing Economy and Platforms
Cyberloafing and Workplace Behavior

Best Publications

Gestión de recursos humanos

Luis R. Gomez-Mejia;David B. Balkin;Robert L. Cardy

1456
Citations
Determinants of faculty pay: An agency theory perspective.

Luis R. Gomez-Mejia;David B. Balkin

1059
Citations
Entrepreneurship and university-based technology transfer

Gideon D. Markman;Phillip H. Phan;David B. Balkin;Peter T. Gianiodis

982
Citations
Inventors and New Venture Formation: the Effects of General Self–Efficacy and Regretful Thinking:

Gideon D. Markman;David B. Balkin;Robert A. Baron

961
Citations
Compensation, Organizational Strategy, and Firm Performance

Luis R. Gomez-Mejia;David B. Balkin

942
Citations
IS CEO PAY IN HIGH-TECHNOLOGY FIRMS RELATED TO INNOVATION?

David B. Balkin;Gideon D. Markman;Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

907
Citations
Organizational Culture and Innovation: A Meta-Analytic Review

Thorsten Büschgens;Andreas Bausch;David B. Balkin

847
Citations
Are perseverance and self‐efficacy costless? Assessing entrepreneurs' regretful thinking

Gideon D. Markman;Robert A. Baron;David B. Balkin

703
Citations
Innovation speed: Transferring university technology to market

Gideon D. Markman;Peter T. Gianiodis;Phillip H. Phan;David B. Balkin

684
Citations
Matching compensation and organizational strategies

David B. Balkin;Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

657
Citations
Toward a contingency theory of compensation strategy

David B. Balkin;Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

566
Citations
Effectiveness of Individual and Aggregate Compensation Strategies

Luis R. Gomez-Mejia;David B. Balkin

393
Citations
Management: People, Performance, Change

Luis R. Gomez-Mejia;David B. Balkin;Robert L. Cardy

360
Citations
GAINSHARING AND MUTUAL MONITORING: A COMBINED AGENCY-ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE INTERPRETATION

Theresa M. Welbourne;David B. Balkin;Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

350
Citations
Entrepreneurship from the Ivory Tower: Do Incentive Systems Matter?

Gideon D. Markman;Peter T. Gianiodis;Phillip H. Phan;David B. Balkin

331
Citations
The Role of Organizational Justice in Pay and Employee Benefit Satisfaction, and its Effects on Work Attitudes:

Michel Tremblay;Bruno Sire;David B. Balkin

331
Citations
Is Nepotism Good or Bad? Types of Nepotism and Implications for Knowledge Management

Peter Jaskiewicz;Klaus Uhlenbruck;David B. Balkin;Trish Reay

322
Citations
Crafting sustainable work: development of personal resources

Mari Kira;Frans M. van Eijnatten;David B. Balkin

217
Citations
The Determinants of Managerial Satisfaction with the Expatriation and Repatriation Process

Luis Gomez‐Mejía;David B. Balkin

187
Citations
DETERMINANTS OF R AND D COMPENSATION STRATEGIES IN THE HIGH TECH INDUSTRY

David B. Balkin;Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

175
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis R. Gomez-Mejia Arizona State University

Gideon D. Markman Colorado State University

Phillip H. Phan Johns Hopkins University

Robert A. Baron Oklahoma State University

Rodger W. Griffeth Ohio University

Karin Sanders University of New South Wales

Juan I. Sanchez Florida International University

Dov Zohar Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Talya N. Bauer Portland State University

Dean Tjosvold Lingnan University

External Links

Personal website of David B. Balkin Google Scholar page

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