Dr. Verbeke has authored or edited 20 books and more than 160 refereed publications, including several articles in the 'Strategic Management Journal' and the 'Journal of International Business Studies'. He is a leading thinker on complex project evaluation and the strategic restructuring of complex organisations, both public agencies and business firms. He has been a member of the European Science and Technology Assembly (ESTA), the highest advisory body to the European Commission on the future of European scientific and innovation policy and has served on the board of directors of various educational and scientific research institutions.

Dr. Verbeke has personally directed more than 80 strategic management research and consulting projects.

His academic research agenda consists of revisiting, rethinking and augmenting the core paradigms in strategic management and international business, especially internalization theory and the resource based view of the firm.  His main contributions to the field of international business include, inter alia, the introduction of (1) the location-bound and non-location bound FSA concepts as a resource-based interpretation of the national responsiveness-integration framework, (2) the subsidiary specific advantage (SSS) concept, (3) the concept of shelter, and (4) the bounded reliability concept, aimed to bridge the unproductive divide between research streams building upon the more conventional behavioral assumptions of either opportunism or trust.