Tom Murtha, ISA Board of Directors

 

Tom Murtha is a Professor of Marketing at the Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University, Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) (on leave), Professor Emeritus (2008) of Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Minnesota, and managing director of Stratametrics, Inc., a small global strategy consulting organization that does survey research and works with senior managers of international companies.

He is the co-author of Managing New Industry Creation: Global Knowledge Formation and Entrepreneurship in High Technology, a book about the corporate strategies and business history of the Flat Panel Display Industry (Stanford University Press, December, 2001). He served as co-coordinator of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research network on globalization of industries from 2002 - 2008, and hosted the inaugural Annual Meetings of the Industry Studies Association in Chicago in 2009 and 2010.

Tom received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1989, and has served on the faculty and as coordinator of doctoral studies in international business at the University of Michigan. He has given many presentations on such topics as global new industry creation and national competitiveness for industry, government, and academic audiences across Asia, Europe and North America. His academic articles have appeared in such outlets as The Strategic Management Journal, The Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, The Academy of Management Journal, and The Journal of International Business Studies. He has served as consulting editor, associate editor and department editor of the Journal of International Business Studies, responsible for the Technology and Innovation department. Prior to his academic career, Tom worked as an independent journalist writing about music and the arts, and in various publishing, advertising and marketing firms that focused on music and consumer electronics. In 2010 Tom was elected to the board of directors of the Chicago Opera Theater.

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Tom Murtha
Professor of Marketing
Eli Broad College of Business
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1121

Professor of Management
College of Business Admin
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607

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