Managerial Studies

Thomas Murtha
Professor of Managerial Studies

PhD Business Administration, New York University, 1989
MA Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1983
BA Experimental Education in Written Communication, University of Minnesota, 1973

Phone: (312) 494-9880                      Office:2206 University Hall
Email: tmurtha@uic.edu                     601 S Morgan Street, MC 243
                                                                 Chicago, IL 60607
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Research Interests
International Management, Global Strategy, Technology and Innovation, New industry creation and global entrepreneurship, Interorganizational relations, Comparative capitalism and firm/state relations, Flat panel display (FPD) industry history, and National competitiveness

Awards and Honors
Andrew H. Van de Ven Research Award, 2002
Runner-up, GLOBE Best International Teaching Award, 2002 (for 2001)
Best Reviewer, Academy of Management, International Management Div., 2002
McKnight Foundation Sabbatical Research Fellowship, CSOM, 2000-2001
Nominee, MBA Teacher of the Year, CSOM, 1995
Best Paper Award, Academy of Management, International Management Division, 1991; nominee, 1994

Experience
Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Organization, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, 1994 - ; Professor Emeritus, 2008
Managing Director and co-founder, Stratametrics, Inc., 1998 - Present Assistant Professor of International Business, University of Michigan, 1989-1994
Lecturer in International Business, University of Michigan, 1987-1989

Selected publications
Martin Kenney, Thomas P. Murtha and Silvia Massini. "Offshoring Administrative and Technical Work: New Fields for Understanding the Global Enterprise ? Introductory article for the Focused Issue, Journal of International Business Studies, August, 2009: 887-900.

Thomas P. Murtha, Silvia Massini and Martin Kenney, eds. "Offshoring Administrative and Technical Work." A focused issue of the Journal of International Business Studies August, 2009

Martin Kenney, Thomas P. Murtha and Silvia Massini. "Offshoring Administrative and Technical Work: Do we Really Need New Theories for this? Introductory article for the Focused Issue,Journal of International Business Studies forthcoming, 2008

Spencer, Jennifer W., Thomas P. Murtha and Stefanie A. Lenway. "How Governments Matter to New Industry Creation,"Academy of Management Review Apri1, 2005: 321-337.

Murtha, Thomas P. "The Metanational Firm in Context: Competition in Knowledge-driven Industries."Advances in International Management 16, 2004: 101-136

Murtha, Thomas P., Stefanie Ann Lenway and Jeffrey A. Hart. Managing New Industry Creation: Global Knowledge Formation and Entrepreneurship in High Technology. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Murtha, Thomas P., Stefanie Ann Lenway and Richard P. Bagozzi. "Global Mind-Sets and Cognitive Shift in a Complex Multinational Corporation." Strategic Management Journal, 19 (2), February, 1998: 97-114. (Reprinted in Cary L. Cooper and William H. Starbuck, eds., Work, Contexts and Consequences. Volume 1. London, Sage: 2005: 225-247.

Murtha, Thomas P. and Stefanie Ann Lenway. "Country Capabilities and the Strategic State: How National Political Institutions Affect Multinational Corporations' Strategies." Strategic Management Journal, Summer, 1994: 113-129.

Lenway, Stefanie Ann and Thomas P. Murtha. "The State as Strategist in the International Business Literature." Journal of International Business Studies, 3rd Quarter, 1994: 513-535.

Murtha, Thomas P. "Surviving Industrial Targeting: State Credibility and Public Policy Contingencies in Multinational Subcontracting." Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. Spring, 1991: 117-43.