Punyashlok Dwibedy has a PhD in Strategy from IIM Ahmedabad. He holds a BTech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from IMT, Nagpur. After his PGDM, he worked as Manager, Corporate Business, in HDFC ERGO General Insurance from 2014 to 2016 in Mumbai and Hyderabad. 

His research interests include innovation and technological choices of firms, combination of innovation practices affecting firm performance, entrepreneurship in emerging markets, small business management and unique market structures in emerging markets impacting firm innovation. His teaching interests include corporate strategy, strategy and innovation, and entrepreneurship in emerging markets. He has also co-authored a case on the acquisition of a foreign firm by an Indian family business published by the IIM Ahmedabad Case Centre. The case has been awarded the “Madan Mohanka Research on Internationalisation of Business Award” for the year 2021 at IIM Ahmedabad.

His research work has been selected for presentation at the Academy of Management Annual Conference, Strategic Management Society Conference, and Academy of International Business. His thesis explores the factors impacting firms’ technological choices and how these choices affect firm performance. He currently has working papers and articles under review at various journals. Punyashlok joined Amrut Mody School of Management as Assistant Professor in August 2021
 

• Dwibedy, P. (2018). The Missing Narrative of Patents, Innovation and Technological Progress during British India. Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2018, No. 1, p. 14765) https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.14765abstract
• Product Innovation as a Response to COVID-19 by Small Firms: The Role of Pre-Crisis Capabilities and Early In-crisis Investments in Complementary Assets, 2021  (With Rakesh Basant)
• Technological Discontinuities, innovation patterns and firm responses: Review of Literature, Current Conversation, and Future Research Directions, 2020 
• Impact of informal competition on product innovation decisions of new ventures and incumbents in transitioning countries: The moderating role of top manager industry experience, 2020
• Syal, A., Dwibedy, P. (2018). " I Need You": Critical Resources and New Venture Survival-A Resource Dependence Framework. Academy of Management Global Proceedings, (2018), 116 https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amgblproc.telaviv.2018.00116.abs
• Bhat, C., & Dwibedy, P. (2019). Necessity Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies: The Role of Human & Social Capital. Academy of Management Global Proceedings, (2019), 388. https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amgblproc.slovenia.2019.0388.abs

Competitive Strategy, Undergraduate Program, AMSOM, Ahmedabad University (Jan-Mar 2020)