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Dirk De Clercq

Dirk De Clercq

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
69
Citations
18528
World Ranking
328
National Ranking
15

Overview

Dirk De Clercq is affiliated with Brock University in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences. Their work primarily centers on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, with significant engagement in Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Demography, and Gender Studies.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Management and Organizational Studies

Dirk De Clercq has published frequently in journals such as:

  • Personnel Review
  • Journal of Organizational Effectiveness People and Performance
  • Journal of Management & Organization
  • Management Decision
  • International Journal of Organizational Analysis

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Dirk De Clercq include:

  • Perceived organizational injustice and counterproductive work behaviours: mediated by organizational identification, moderated by discretionary human resource practices, 2021, Personnel Review
  • The stress-reducing effect of coworker support on turnover intentions: Moderation by political ineptness and despotic leadership, 2020, Journal of Business Research
  • When Discrimination is Worse, Autonomy is Key: How Women Entrepreneurs Leverage Job Autonomy Resources to Find Work-Life Balance, 2021, Journal of Business Ethics

Other notable papers related to their frequent co-author Sadia Jahanzeb include:

  • Organizational injustice and knowledge hiding: the roles of organizational dis-identification and benevolence, 2020, Management Decision
  • Bridging the Breach: Using Positive Affectivity to Overcome Knowledge Hiding after Contract Breaches, 2020, The Journal of Psychology

Frequent co-authors with whom Dirk De Clercq has collaborated extensively include:

  • Inam Ul Haq
  • Muhammad Umer Azeem
  • Renato Pereira
  • Tasneem Fatima
  • Sadia Jahanzeb

Best Publications

  • Human capital, social capital, and innovation: a multi-country study

    Mourad Dakhli;Dirk De Clercq

  • Institutional context and the allocation of entrepreneurial effort

    Harry P Bowen;Dirk De Clercq

  • A survey of bacteria and fungi occurring during composting and self-heating processes

    Jaak Ryckeboer;J Mergaert;K Vaes;S Klammer

  • A network-based approach on opportunity recognition

    Pia Arenius;Dirk De Clercq

  • The moderating impact of internal social exchange processes on the entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship

    Dirk De Clercq;Dimo Dimov;Narongsak (Tek) Thongpapanl

  • The role of knowledge in business start-up activity

    Dirk De Clercq;Pia Arenius

  • The Internationalization of Small and Medium-Sized Firms

    Dirk De Clercq;Harry J. Sapienza;Hans Crijns

  • Learning and knowledge in early internationalization research: past accomplishments and future directions

    Dirk De Clercq;Harry J. Sapienza;R. Isil Yavuz;Lianxi Zhou

  • The moderating effect of institutional context on the relationship between associational activity and new business activity in emerging economies

    Dirk De Clercq;Wade M. Danis;Mourad Dakhli

  • An Entrepreneur's Guide to the Venture Capital Galaxy

    Dirk De Clercq;Vance H. Fried;Oskari Lehtonen;Harry J. Sapienza

  • Organizational social capital, formalization, and internal knowledge sharing in entrepreneurial orientation formation

    Dirk De Clercq;Dimo Dimov;Narongsak "Tek" Thongpapanl

  • Individual–Level Resources and New Business Activity: The Contingent Role of Institutional Context:

    Dirk De Clercq;Dominic S.K. Lim;Chang Hoon Oh

  • Internal knowledge development and external knowledge access in venture capital investment performance

    Dirk De Clercq;Dimo Dimov

  • Toward a Practice Perspective of Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Legitimacy as Habitus

    Dirk De Clercq;Maxim Voronov

  • The roles of learning orientation and passion for work in the formation of entrepreneurial intention

    Dirk De Clercq;Benson Honig;Bruce Martin

  • Antecedents of international and domestic learning effort

    Harry J. Sapienza;Dirk De Clercq;William R. Sandberg

  • Servant Leadership and Work Engagement: The Contingency Effects of Leader–Follower Social Capital

    Dirk De Clercq;Dirk De Clercq;Dave Bouckenooghe;Usman Raja;Ganna Matsyborska

  • Effects of relational capital and commitment on venture capitalists' perception of portfolio company performance

    Dirk De Clercq;Harry J. Sapienza

  • Organizational Commitment in Mexican Small and Medium-Sized Firms: The Role of Work Status, Organizational Climate, and Entrepreneurial Orientation

    Dirk De Clercq;Imanol Belausteguigoitia Rius

  • When good conflict gets better and bad conflict becomes worse: the role of social capital in the conflict–innovation relationship

    Dirk De Clercq;Narongsak Thongpapanl;Dimo Dimov

  • Venture Capital Investment Strategy and Portfolio Failure Rate: A Longitudinal Study

    Dimo Dimov;Dirk De Clercq

Frequent Co-Authors

Dimo Dimov
Dimo Dimov University of Bath
Harry J. Sapienza
Harry J. Sapienza University of Minnesota
Sophie Manigart
Sophie Manigart Vlerick Business School
André van Stel
André van Stel Kozminski University
Benson Honig
Benson Honig McMaster University
Lianxi Zhou
Lianxi Zhou Brock University
Chang Hoon Oh
Chang Hoon Oh University of Kansas
Bart Clarysse
Bart Clarysse ETH Zurich
C. R. Hinings
C. R. Hinings University of Alberta
Niels Bosma
Niels Bosma Utrecht University

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