Thomas Murtha

Thomas Murtha

• Associate Professor Emeritus
• Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship

Education

BA 1973
written communication University of Minnesota

MA 1983
public affairs University of Minnesota

PhD 1989
business administration New York University

Expertise

• Technology management
• Global strategy
• Organizational cognition and internationalization processes
• International firm/state relations
• National competitiveness

## Selected Works

Managing New Industry Creation: Global Knowledge Formation and Entrepreneurship in High Technology. T. Murtha, S. Lenway, and J. Hart. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

"How Governments Matter to New Industry Creation," T. Murtha, J. Spencer, and S. Lenway, Academy of Management Review (Apri1 2005).

"The Metanational Firm in Context: Competition in KnowledgeDriven Industries," T. Murtha, Advances in International Management (2004)

"Global Mindsets and Cognitive Shift in a Complex Multinational Corporation," T. Murtha, Strategic Management Journal (1998).

"Moving Targets: National Industrial Strategies and Embedded Innovation in the Global Flat Panel Display Industry," T. Murtha, J. Spencer, and S. Lenway, Advances in Strategic Management (1996).

"The Idea of the State in the International Management Literature," T. Murtha and S. Lenway, Journal of International Business Studies (1994).

"Country Capabilities and the Strategic State: How National Political Institutions Affect Multinational Corporations' Strategies," T. Murtha and S. Lenway, Strategic Management Journal (1994).

"Surviving Industrial Targeting: State Credibility and Public Policy Contingencies in Multinational Subcontracting," T. Murtha, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (1991).

Current Activities

### Community Relationships

• President Emeritus, The Bakken Trio
• Board President, Gold Mountain Homeowners'' Association

Current Research

• Organizational attitudes toward internationalization processes in U.S. firms
• Management of innovation and new industry creation

Editorial Appointments

• Department Editor, Technology and Innovation Area, Journal of International Business Studies

Honors and Awards

• Best Paper Award, International Management Division, Academy of Management, 1991