College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Glenn Patrick Hoetker

Associate Professor of Business Administration and
Director of CIBER and Julian Simon Memorial Faculty Fellow

Biographical Sketch

Associate professor Glenn Hoetker (Business, Law, Institute for Genomic Biology) joined the strategy faculty in the Department of Business Administration in 2001, after earning his Ph.D. in international business and a Masters of Applied Economics at the University of Michigan. He also holds an M.S. in library and information science from the University of Illinois and a B.A. in Japanese studies and mathematics from Earlham College. He is active in the Strategic Management Society, the Academy of Management, and the Academy of International Business.

Professor Hoetker currently teaches strategy and technology management courses at the undergraduate, masters, executive and doctoral levels. His other teaching interests include competitive intelligence. His research and teaching interests include inter-firm relationships, the management of innovation, and the effect of national institutions on both. He is particularly interested in the economy and institutions of Japan. Much of his work focuses on the flat panel display and notebook computer industries, but he has also conducted research on the disk drive and early automotive industries.  He currently chairs the Science and Technology in the Pacific Century initiative of the University's Center for Advanced Studies and is a member of the Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies' Advisory Council. He is a member of the editorial review boards for the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Science.

From 1994 to 1996, Professor Hoetker directed research on Japanese business practices and government policy at the Washington, D.C., offices of the law firm Dewey Ballantine. In this capacity, he established and managed a team of researchers supporting clients including Eastman Kodak, the Semiconductor Industry Association, and firms in the steel, chemical, and electronics industries. Prior to that, he served as an international policy analyst for the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s Scientific and Technical Information program. As Japanese information specialist for SCAN C2C, Inc., he performed research on Japanese technology and commerce for clients including General Electric, IBM, Ford Motor Company, and the U.S. government. Other consulting and executive education clients have included General Motors, Air Products & Chemicals and Hewlett-Packard.

His current research projects investigate issues including how firms choose suppliers under uncertainty, the impact of buyer-supplier networks on supplier performance (with Anand Swaminathan and Will Mitchell), Japanese buyer-supplier relationships in the context of a changing legal environment (with Tom Ginsberg), and the influence of knowledge created by firms that have subsequently exited high-technology industries (with Rajshree Agarwal).

His paper "Death hurts, but it isn't fatal: The post-exit diffusion of innovative knowledge" (with Rajshree Agarwal) won the Steven Schrader Best Paper Award at the 2005 Academy of Management annual meeting. In 2002, he won the Free Press Best Dissertation Award (Business Policy and Strategy Division, Academy of Management) and was a finalist for the Best Dissertation Award (Technology and Innovation Management Division, Academy of Management). He was a finalist in the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Competition in 2000.

He is married, with two children. In his spare time, he enjoys being with family, weight lifting, bicycling, and basketball.