Glenn P. Hoetker

Associate Professor of Business Administration and Law

Phone: 217-265-4081 Email: ghoetker@illinois.edu B.A., Japanese Studies & Mathematics, Earlham College, 1988 M.S., Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991 M.S., Economics, University of Michigan, 1999 Ph.D., International Business, University of Michigan, 2001     http://www.business.illinois.edu/ghoetker Courses

Professor Glenn Hoetker holds appointments in the College of Business, College of Law, and the Institute for Genomic Biology. He is also Director of the University's Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), which includes the Initiative on Science and Technology in the Pacific Century. He joined the Illinois faculty 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. His research and teaching interests broadly encompass firms' global strategies for innovation and entrepreneurship. More specifically, his work falls into four streams. First, he examines the formation, governance and performance of inter-firm relationships--joint ventures, alliances, buyer-supplier ties, etc. In this regard, he is particularly interested in the relationship between contracts and other means of governing collaboration among firms. Second, he examines the diffusion of knowledge across firms, industries and regions, with a special interest in the role of intellectual property and the movement of employees. Third, he examines the role of national institutions, including contracting law, the courts, and informal institutions such as business groups on the first two streams. With Tom Ginsburg, he is studying the impact of Japan's efforts to improve its legal infrastructure on the business strategies of Japanese firms. Lastly, he has a small strand of work on empirical methodology. 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. 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 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.