Dr. Tanriverdi has a research and teaching program that examines how organizations innovate, grow, and achieve and sustain superior financial performance. He focuses on complementary IT and business capabilities that enable firms to achieve superior financial performance in corporate diversification moves; mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs and split-ups; outsourcing and off shoring initiatives; and adoption and deployment of complex IT innovations. He examines IT governance practices that reduce corporate risks, increase corporate returns, and lead to superior risk-return positions for corporations.