Jeroen
Neckebrouck

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship

• Ph.D. in Business Economics, Vlerick Business School
• M.Sc, Industrial Management, Ghent University
• M.Sc, Business Economics, Ghent University
• M.Sc, Civil Engineering, Ghent University
• B.Sc, Civil Engineering, Ghent University

Prof. Neckebrouck is specialized in the areas of entrepreneurship, family business and governance. His work focuses on questions such as how boards can contribute to the decision-making of entrepreneurs, how family firms and professional investors can successfully deal with each other, and how governance can help entrepreneurial ventures develop and retain skilled employees.

He has published on these topics in top-tier academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, and Venture Capital, and in leading managerial publications such as Forbes Magazine as well as in the World Economic Forum.  His research has also received prestigious awards from the Family Firm Institute and the BVA Private Equity and Venture Capital Association for its impact on business practice.

Professor Neckebrouck is an editorial board member of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Before pursuing his Ph.D., Prof. Neckebrouck was a management consultant in the telecom industry and co-launched a platform to promote entrepreneurial acquisitions.

Areas of interest.

* Entrepreneurial Mindset and Leadership
* Identifying and Developing Entrepreneurial Opportunities
* Governance of Entrepreneurial Ventures
* Venture Capital and Private equity

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

COLLEWAERT, V., NECKEBROUCK, J., VANACKER, T., T., BOURGOIS, D., MANIGART, S. (2023). Same owner, different impact. How responses to performance feedback differ across a private equity investor's portfolio firms. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. doi:10.1002/sej.1487. (Online first) MEULEMAN, M., WILSON, N., WRIGHT, M., NECKEBROUCK, J. (2022). When the going gets tough. Private equity firms' role as agents and the resolution of financial distress in buyouts. Journal of Small Business Management, 60 (3), 513-540. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/00472778.2020.1717242. NECKEBROUCK, J., MEULEMAN, M., MANIGART, S. (2021). Governance Implications of Attracting External Equity Investors In Private Family Firms. Academy of Management Perspectives, 35 (1), 25-44. doi:https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2017.0204. NECKEBROUCK, J., SCHULZE, W., ZELLWEGER, T. (2018). Are family firms good employers? Academy of Management Journal, 61 (2), 553 - 585. doi:10.5465/amj.2016.0765. NECKEBROUCK, J., MANIGART, S., MEULEMAN, M. (2017). Attitudes of family firms toward outside investors. The Importance of organizational identification. Venture Capital, 19 (1-2), 29 - 50. doi:10.1080/13691066.2016.1255414.

Proceedings

NECKEBROUCK, J., HUYGHE, A. (2019). Don't leave me now - Organizational responses to collective employee turnover. Annual Meeting Proceedings: Boston 2019 (pp. 18036). Academy of Management Proceedings. NECKEBROUCK, J., SCHULZE, W. (2018). How do private firms respond to performance feedback?. The Role of governance and self-enhancement. Annual Meeting Proceedings: Chicago 2018. Academy of Management Proceedings. MANIGART, S., NECKEBROUCK, J., MEULEMAN, M. (2018). Principal-principal problems in private firms. Insights from private equity backed family firms. Annual Meeting Proceedings: Chicago 2018. Academy of Management Proceedings. NECKEBROUCK, J., MANIGART, S., MEULEMAN, M. (2016). Working for divergent principals. Effects of private equity on employment practices in family firms. Academy of Management Proceedings. MEULEMAN, M., NECKEBROUCK, J., WILSON, N., WRIGHT, M. (2014). Entrepreneurial buyouts and financial distress. A multiple agency perspective. Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2014. Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research.

NECKEBROUCK, J. (2022). Why workforce “rents” may threaten strategy inferences from accounting measures of performance. Strategic Leadership and Corporate Governance Workshop - Esade. NECKEBROUCK, J. (2021). Employee rent sharing and competitive advantage. Exploring an s-shaped rent sharing curve. SMS 41st Annual Conference, Virtual Toronto.

Articles in other publications

NECKEBROUCK, J. (2023). Mehr Stress oder weniger? Was Forscher schon über die Vier-Tage-Woche wissen. WELT. IESE INSIGHT, (2020). The Big Picture. Teleworking, the new normal? Harvard Business Review (156). IESE INSIGHT, (2020). Teletrabajo: ¿la nueva normalidad? IESE Business School Insight (156).

Book Chapters

COLLEWAERT, V., NECKEBROUCK, J., VANACKER, T., T. (2023). Venture capital investors and performance aspirations. In Cumming, D. ; Hammer, B. (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity. London: Palgrave Macmillan. NECKEBROUCK, J., S. MANIGART, S. (2023). Family Firms and Private Equity. In Cumming, D. ; Hammer, B. (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Studies

NECKEBROUCK, J. (2023). How Does Part-Time Work Affect Productivity?. Implications of part-time work for productivity and profitability. IESE.

Cases

NECKEBROUCK, J., MEULEMAN, M. (2023). Amy's Buyout: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (A). Buying a Business is Entrepreneurship Too. IESE, E-228-E. NECKEBROUCK, J., MEULEMAN, M. (2023). Amy's Buyout: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (B). To Buy or Not To Buy? Assessing the Target. IESE, E-232-E. NECKEBROUCK, J., MEULEMAN, M. (2023). Amy's Buyout: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (C). Final Negotiations. IESE, E-233-E.