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31
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4077
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2823
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26

Gerrit Sarens publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerrit Sarens sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 112 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Gerrit Sarens D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerrit Sarens sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 31 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Overview

Gerrit Sarens is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on Accounting as a significant subfield. Other areas of study include Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management, Marketing, and Building and Construction.

The main topics addressed in Sarens's work include:

  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Risk Management in Financial Firms
  • Information Technology Governance and Strategy
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
  • Accounting and Organizational Management

Recent published papers by Gerrit Sarens encompass various aspects of internal audit and organizational governance. These include:

  • Understanding the internal audit function in a digitalised business environment, 2020, Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change
  • Correlates of internal audit function involvement in sustainability audits, 2020, Journal of Management & Governance
  • Effects of digitalisation of organisations on internal audit activities and practices, 2021, Managerial Auditing Journal
  • Crisis? What crisis? Exploring the cognitive constraints on boards of directors in times of uncertainty, 2020, Journal of Business Research
  • Factors that Influence the Internal Audit Function's Maturity, 2020, Accounting Horizons

Sarens frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Notable co-authors include:

  • Nathanaël Betti
  • Steven DeSimone
  • Giuseppe D'Onza
  • Ingrid Poncin
  • Alessandro Merendino

Publications have appeared in several academic journals, reflecting a diverse scholarly engagement across related fields. The primary publication venues include:

  • Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change
  • Journal of Management & Governance
  • Managerial Auditing Journal
  • Journal of Business Research
  • Accounting Horizons

Best Publications

  • A critical analysis of the independence of the internal audit function: evidence from Australia

    Joe Christopher;Gerrit Sarens;Philomena Leung

  • The Relationship between Internal Audit and Senior Management: A Qualitative Analysis of Expectations and Perceptions

    Gerrit Sarens;Ignace De Beelde

  • Internal auditors' perception about their role in risk management : A comparison between US and Belgian companies

    Gerrit Sarens;Ignace De Beelde

  • Internal audit: A comfort provider to the audit committee

    Gerrit Sarens;Gerrit Sarens;Ignace De Beelde;Patricia Everaert

  • Monitoring effects of the internal audit function: agency theory versus other explanatory variables

    Gerrit Sarens;Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi

  • Using Transaction Cost Economics to explain outsourcing of accounting

    Patricia Everaert;Gerrit Sarens;Gerrit Sarens;Jan Rommel

  • Cost modeling in logistics using time‐driven ABC: Experiences from a wholesaler

    Patricia Everaert;Werner Bruggeman;Gerrit Sarens;Steven R Anderson

  • Factors associated with the internal audit function's role in corporate governance

    Gerrit Sarens;Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi;Rainer Lenz

  • Informal interactions between audit committees and internal audit functions: Exploratory evidence and directions for future research

    Mahbub Zaman;Gerrit Sarens

  • Internal Auditing Research: Where are we going? Editorial

    Gerrit Sarens

  • The European literature review on internal auditing

    Marco Allegrini;Giuseppe D'Onza;Leen Paape;Robert Melville

  • Sourcing strategy of Belgian SMEs: empirical evidence for the accounting services

    Patricia Everaert;Gerrit Sarens;Jan Rommel

  • Understanding the internal audit function in a digitalised business environment

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  • Reflections on the internal auditing profession: what might have gone wrong?

    Rainer Lenz;Gerrit Sarens

  • Probing the discriminatory power of characteristics of Internal Audit Functions: Sorting the wheat from the chaff

    Rainer Lenz;Gerrit Sarens;Kenneth D'Silva

  • Characteristics of target costing: theoretical and field study perspectives

    Patricia Everaert;Stijn Loosveld;Tom Van Acker;Marijke Schollier

  • Are Internal Auditing Practices Related to the Age of the Internal Audit Function? Exploratory Evidence and Directions for Future Research

    Gerrit Sarens;Marco Allegrini;Giuseppe D'Onza;Robert Melville

  • Preparing work-ready graduates – skills development lessons learnt from internal audit practice

    Kato Plant;Karin Barac;Gerrit Sarens

  • The relationship between audit committee characteristics and financial statement quality: evidence from Belgium

    Nicolas De Vlaminck;Gerrit Sarens

  • Implementing combined assurance: insights from multiple case studies

    Loïc Decaux;Gerrit Sarens

  • The Association between Corporate Governance Guidelines and Risk Management and Internal Control Practices: Evidence from a Comparative Study

    Gerrit Sarens;Joe Christopher

  • Contemporary internal auditing practices : (new) roles and influencing variables. Evidence from extended case studies

    G. Sarens;I. de Beelde

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Keil
Mark Keil Georgia State University

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