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Dirk De Clercq

Goodman School of Business, Brock University
Verified email at brocku.ca
Cited by 18876

Locomotion in bonobos (Pan paniscus): differences and similarities between bipedal and quadrupedal terrestrial walking, and a comparison with other locomotor …

K d'Août, E Vereecke, K Schoonaert… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
One of the great ongoing debates in palaeo‐anthropology is when, and how, hominids
acquired habitual bipedal locomotion. The newly adopted bipedal gait and the ancestral …

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

M Dakhli, D De Clercq - Entrepreneurship & regional development, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
The authors examine the effects of two forms of capital, ie human capital and social capital,
on innovation at the country level. We use secondary data from the World Development …

Institutional context and the allocation of entrepreneurial effort

HP Bowen, D De Clercq - Journal of international business studies, 2008 - Springer
The type of activity in which entrepreneurs engage is likely to influence the potential
contribution of entrepreneurship to economic growth and prosperity. Yet the …

Biomechanical analysis of the stance phase during barefoot and shod running

B De Wit, D De Clercq, P Aerts - Journal of biomechanics, 2000 - Elsevier
This study investigated spatio-temporal variables, ground reaction forces and sagittal and
frontal plane kinematics during the stance phase of nine trained subjects running barefoot …

Increasing children's physical activity levels during recess periods in elementary schools: the effects of providing game equipment

SJM Verstraete, GM Cardon… - … European Journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Background: During recess, children can be active on a daily basis, making it an important
school environmental factor for the promotion of health-related physical activity. The aim of …

[HTML][HTML] Proprioception and muscle strength in subjects with a history of ankle sprains and chronic instability

T Willems, E Witvrouw, J Verstuyft, P Vaes… - Journal of athletic …, 2002 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective: To examine if patients with chronic ankle instability or a history of ankle sprains
without chronic instability have worse proprioception or less invertor and evertor muscle …

A network-based approach on opportunity recognition

P Arenius, DD Clercq - Small business economics, 2005 - Springer
This paper argues that individuals differ in terms of their perception of opportunities because
of the differences between the networks they are embedded in. We focus on two aspects of …

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

D De Clercq, D Dimov, NT Thongpapanl - Journal of business venturing, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper applies a social exchange perspective to understand the internal contingencies
of the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and performance. It focuses on …

Understanding how an arm swing enhances performance in the vertical jump

A Lees, J Vanrenterghem, D De Clercq - Journal of biomechanics, 2004 - Elsevier
This investigation was conducted to examine the various theories that have been proposed
to explain the enhancement of jumping performance when using an arm swing compared to …

Intrinsic risk factors for inversion ankle sprains in male subjects: a prospective study

TM Willems, E Witvrouw, K Delbaere… - … American journal of …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Many variables have been retrospectively associated with ankle sprains.
However, very little is known about factors predisposing people to these injuries. Hypothesis …