Research Interests
- AI, Competitive Advantage & Performance, Cyber Security, New Venture Value Creation, Commercialization, & Capture, Technology-based Dynamic Capabilities
Ph.D., Purdue University
M.S., University of Colorado
B.S., Florida State University
Published in Financial Times Top 50 Research Journals, cited by 2,500+ publications. Presented 75+ conference papers. AOM STR Executive Committee & SMJ, JSBM, & AMLE editorial boards.
Irwin, K., Armstrong, C., Drnevich, P., Schijven, M. (2025). The Motives for Mergers and Acquisitions and Their Implications for Research and Practice. Forthcoming: Strategic Management Review.
Drnevich, P. L., & West, J. (2023). Performance implications of technological uncertainty, age, and size for small businesses. Journal of Small Business Management, 61(4), 1806–1841. doi:10.1080/00472778.2020.1867733
Jifri, A., Drnevich, P., Jackson, W., & Dulek, R. (2023) Examining the Sustainability of Contributions of Competing Core Organizational Capabilities in Response to Systemic Economic Crises. Sustainability 2023, 15(5), 26-45. Special Issue Corporate Finance and Business Administration. doi:10.3390/su15054526.
Irwin, K., Gilstrap, C., McDowell, W., Drnevich, P., & Gorbett, A. (2022). How Knowledge and Uncertainty Affect Strategic International Business Investment Decisions: Implications for Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions. Journal of Business Research, 139(2), 831-842. doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.10.001
Irwin, K., Gilstrap, C., Drnevich, P., & Sunny, M. (2022). The Acquisition of Capabilities: How Firms Use Dynamic and Ordinary Capabilities to Manage Uncertainty. Journal of Management & Organization. 28(3), 564-586. doi:10.1017/jmo.2022.23
Drnevich, P., Mahoney, J., & Schendel, D. (2020). Has Strategic Management Research Lost Its Way? Strategic Management Review, 1(1), 35-73. Lead feature article for inaugural issue. doi:10.1561/111.00000004
Irwin, K., Gilstrap, C., Drnevich, P., & Tudor, C. (2019). From start-up to acquisition: Implications of financial investment trends for small- to medium-sized high-tech enterprises. Journal of Small Business Strategy, 29(2), 22-43. https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/jsbs/article/view/1387
Honig, B., Lampel, J., Siegel, D., & Drnevich, P. (2017). Ethics in Management Research: Norms, Identity, and Community in the 21st century? Academy of Management Learning & Education, 16(1), 84-93. doi: 10.5465/amle.2017.0023.
Hogan, T., Hutson, E., & Drnevich, P. (2017). Drivers of External Equity Funding in Small High-Tech Ventures. Journal of Small Business Management, Special Issue with Technovation: Technology and Innovation in Small Business, 55(2), 236-253. doi: 10.1111/jsbm.12270.
Honig, B., Lampel, J., Siegel, D., & Drnevich, P. (2014). Ethics in the Production and Dissemination of Management Research: Institutional Failure or Individual Fallibility? Journal of Management Studies, 51(1), 118-142. doi: 10.1111/joms.12056.
Drnevich, P., & Croson, D. (2013). Information Technology and Business-Level Strategy: Towards an Integrated Theoretical Perspective. MIS Quarterly, 37(2), 483-509. Special Issue – Digital Business Strategy: Toward a Next Generation of Insights. semanticscholar.org/30bf/9fbbde0b44b0abb6818e8f37b14d86c550b6.pdf
Chaturvedi, A., Dolk, D., & Drnevich, P. (2011). Design Principles for Virtual Worlds. MIS Quarterly 35(3), 673-684. researchgate.net/220259848 / jstor.org/stable/23042803
Drnevich, P. & Kriauciunas, A. (2011). Clarifying the Conditions and Limits of the Contributions of Ordinary and Dynamic Capabilities to Relative Firm Performance. Strategic Management Journal 32(3), 254-279. doi: 10.1002/smj.882.
Moskowitz, H., Drnevich, P., Ersoy, O., Altinkemer, K., & Chaturvedi, A. (2011). Using Real-Time Decision Tools to Improve Distributed Decision Making Capabilities in High-Magnitude Crisis Situations. Decision Sciences 42(2), 477-493. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2011.00319.x.
Withers, M., Drnevich, P., & Marino, L. (2011). Doing More with Less: The Disordinal Implications of Firm Age for Leveraging Capabilities for Innovation Activity. Journal of Small Business Management 49(4), 515-536. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-627X.2011.00334.x.
O’Brien, J. P., Drnevich, P., Crook, T. R., & Armstrong, C. (2010). Does Business School Research Add Economic Value for Students? Academy of Management Learning & Education 9(4), 638-651. AMLE 2010 Outstanding Article Award. Selected as one of 29 top AMLE articles for the 2016 United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Management Education Virtual Collection). jstor.org/stable/25782051