Dhirendra Mani Shukla

Dhirendra Mani Shukla is a faculty at IIM Lucknow in the Strategic Management area. Prior to joining IIM Lucknow,he was a faculty at IIM Udaipur. His research interests include strategic alliances, social entrepreneurship, and innovation. His work has been considered for publication in reputed journals including Information and Organization,Management and Organization Review, and Journal of Business Research. His projects on social networks and entrepreneurship have received funding from Ministry of Education and ICSSR under the initiatives such as SPARC and IMPRESS.

Research

Current Research Interests:

• Strategic alliances, social entrepreneurship, innovation

Referred Journals:

• “Diversification experiences and firm performance: The moderating roles of learning capacity and intellectual capital efficiency” with Sushil Kumar. Management and Organization Review (Forthcoming).
• “Knowledge Commoning: Scaffolding and Technoficing to Overcome Challenges of Knowledge Curation” with Israr Qureshi, Babita Bhatt, Rishikesan Parthiban, Ruonan Sun, Pradeep Hota, and Zhejing Xu. (2022). Information and Organization (32(2), 100410.
• “Valuation Effects of Alliance Portfolio Expansion Speed and Strength: Evidence from High-Tech Firms” (with Amita Mital, Israr Qureshi, and Taiyuan Wang). (2020) Journal of Business Research (113, May 2020, p. 370-383).
• "Diffusion of Internationalization in Business Group Networks: Evidence from India" (with M Akbar). (2018). Management Decision, 56 (2): 406-420.
• "Effect of firm's diverse experiences on its alliance portfolio diversity: Evidence from India" (with Amita Mital). (2016) Journal of Management & Organization, 25 (SI 5): 748-772.
• “Influence of board of directors on corporate diversification: Evidence from India” (with Neeraj Dwivedi). (2016). Strategic Change: Briefings in Entrepreneurial Finance. 25(5):471-484.

Teaching

• Strategic Management (Core course)
• Strategic Alliances (Elective)

Education

• Fellow Program in Management (Strategic Management) from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow,India
• Bachelor of Technology (Chemical Technology) from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur, India

Awards & Honours

• Received the Conference Best paper award for “Strange Bedfellows: The Interaction between Corporate and NGOs after Mandatory CSR Regulation in India”, at the 16th International Conference Business and Management, Melbourne, Dec 2019.
• Received Best paper award in Strategic Management track for “Alliance Portfolios: Interaction Effects of Partner Type Diversity, Tie-strength and Learning Orientation: at the 33rd Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management, Cairns, Australia, Dec 2019.