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Wim Voordeckers

Wim Voordeckers

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
33
Citations
5646
World Ranking
2468
National Ranking
23

Wim Voordeckers 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 Wim Voordeckers sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 156 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wim Voordeckers 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 Wim Voordeckers sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wim Voordeckers is affiliated with Hasselt University in Belgium and specializes in research within the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Gender Studies, and Strategy and Management.

The research topics covered by Wim Voordeckers include:

  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Working Capital and Financial Performance
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

Wim Voordeckers has contributed to several frequently published venues, notably:

  • Review of Managerial Science
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Family Business Strategy
  • Journal of Small Business Management
  • Journal of Business Research

Their recent papers include:

  • On external knowledge sources and innovation performance: Family versus non-family firms (2021) in Technovation
  • Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order (2022) in Small Business Economics
  • Multiple directorships in emerging countries: Fiduciary duties at stake? (2020) in Business Ethics A European Review
  • Researching Family Business Growth (2020) in European Management Review
  • Corporate performance and CEO dismissal: The role of social category faultlines (2021) in Corporate Governance An International Review

Wim Voordeckers frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Frank Lambrechts
  • Jolien Huybrechts
  • Tensie Steijvers
  • Pieter Vandekerkhof
  • Phuong-Anh Nguyen Duong

Best Publications

  • Boards of directors in family businesses: A literature review and research agenda

    Yannick Bammens;Wim Voordeckers;Anita Van Gils

  • Board Composition in Small and Medium‐Sized Family Firms*

    Wim Voordeckers;Anita Van Gils;Jeroen Van den Heuvel

  • Socioemotional Wealth and Earnings Management in Private Family Firms

    Annelies Stockmans;Nadine Lybaert;Wim Voordeckers

  • Business collateral and personal commitments in SME lending

    Wim Voordeckers;Tensie Steijvers

  • Board Roles in Small and Medium‐Sized Family Businesses: performance and importance

    Jeroen Van Den Heuvel;Anita Van Gils;Wim Voordeckers

  • Boards of directors in family firms: A generational perspective

    Yannick Bammens;Wim Voordeckers;Anita Van Gils

  • The entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship in private family firms: the moderating role of socioemotional wealth

    Jelle Schepers;Wim Voordeckers;Tensie Steijvers;Eddy Laveren

  • Entrepreneurial Risk Taking of Private Family Firms The Influence of a Nonfamily CEO and the Moderating Effect of CEO Tenure

    Jolien Huybrechts;Wim Voordeckers;Nadine Lybaert

  • The Effect of Organizational Characteristics on the Appointment of Nonfamily Managers in Private Family Firms: The Moderating Role of Socioemotional Wealth

    Pieter Vandekerkhof;Tensie Steijvers;Walter Hendriks;Wim Voordeckers

  • Collateral and Credit Rationing: A Review of Recent Empirical Studies as a Guide for Future Research

    Tensie Steijvers;Wim Voordeckers

  • Collateral, relationship lending and family firms

    Tensie Steijvers;Wim Voordeckers;Koen Vanhoof

  • CEO compensation in private family firms : pay-for-performance and the moderating role of ownership and management

    Anneleen Michiels;Wim Voordeckers;Nadine Lybaert;Nadine Lybaert;Tensie Steijvers;Tensie Steijvers

  • The CEO autonomy–stewardship behavior relationship in family firms: The mediating role of psychological ownership

    Bart Henssen;Wim Voordeckers;Frank Lambrechts;Matti Koiranen

  • Board team leadership revisited: A conceptual model of shared leadership in the boardroom

    Maarten Vandewaerde;Wim Voordeckers;Frank Lambrechts;Yannick Bammens

  • Private Family Ownership and the Agency Costs of Debt

    Tensie Steijvers;Wim Voordeckers

  • Socio‐Emotional Wealth Separation and Decision‐Making Quality in Family Firm TMTs: The Moderating Role of Psychological Safety

    Pieter Vandekerkhof;Tensie Steijvers;Walter Hendriks;Wim Voordeckers

  • Succession planning in family firms: family governance practices, board of directors, and emotions

    Ine Umans;Nadine Lybaert;Nadine Lybaert;Tensie Steijvers;Wim Voordeckers

  • Environmental Uncertainty and Strategic Behavior in Belgian Family Firms

    Anita Van Gils;Wim Voordeckers;Jeroen van den Heuvel

  • Dividends and family governance practices in private family firms

    Anneleen Michiels;Wim Voordeckers;Nadine Lybaert;Tensie Steijvers

  • On external knowledge sources and innovation performance: Family versus non-family firms

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  • The relationship between the board of directors and firm performance in private family firms: A test of the demographic versus behavioral approach

    Rodrigo Basco;Wim Voordeckers

  • The distinctiveness of family-firm intangibles: A review and suggestions for future research

    Jolien Huybrechts;Wim Voordeckers;Nadine Lybaert;Sigrid Vandemaele

  • CEO's empathy and salience of socioemotional wealth in family SMEs - The moderating role of external directors

    Sanjay Goel;Wim Voordeckers;Anita van Gils;Jeroen van den Heuvel

Frequent Co-Authors

Wim Vanhaverbeke
Wim Vanhaverbeke University of Antwerp
Morten Huse
Morten Huse BI Norwegian Business School
Koen Vanhoof
Koen Vanhoof Hasselt University
Thomas Zellweger
Thomas Zellweger University of St. Gallen
Nadine Kammerlander
Nadine Kammerlander WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management
Jon C. Carr
Jon C. Carr North Carolina State University
Donald O. Neubaum
Donald O. Neubaum Florida Atlantic University
John Hagedoorn
John Hagedoorn Royal Holloway University of London
Rodrigo Basco
Rodrigo Basco American University of Sharjah

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