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John Ettlie, Ph.D.
Professor, Benjamin Forman Chair for Research
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Office Location: LOW-2331
Office Phone: 585-475-7789
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Staff Assistant Phone: 585-475-7431
Fax: 585-475-7055
Biography
John Ettlie is the Rosett Professor of Business in the Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in 1975 and has held appointments since then at the University of Illinois Chicago, De Paul University, the Industrial Technology Institute and the University of Michigan Business School.
Dr. Ettlie has published over 60 refereed journal articles and has made over 100 professional presentations, world-wide, on the management of technological innovation. He has authored five books, including a new textbook published by John Wiley & Sons (New York, 2000) titled Managing Technological Innovation.
His current research projects include: 1) an investigation of the adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems; 2) a study of technology, reliability and customization of manufacturing products with Professor Michael Johnson, University of Michigan Business School; and 3) the context of new product development (NPD) with Professor Mohan Subramaniam, Boston College and Professor Deborah Dougherty, Rutgers University.
Current initiatives include the RIT New Product Development Forum and the Innovation Research Network. Both groups meet periodically to support the applied research agenda in the College of Business.
Professor Ettlie has been the consultant to numerous corporations and government projects including the Saturn Corporation, Allied-Signal Corporation, Caterpillar Tractor, Inc., PACAR and Reynolds Metals. He is the associate editor of several professional journals including Decision Sciences and the Journal of Operations Management.
Education
- Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Northwestern University, 1975
- M.S., Industrial Engineering, Northwestern University, 1971
- B.S., Industrial Engineering, Northwestern University, 1968
Experience
- Benjamin Forman Chair for Research -- Saunders College of Business, 2009-Present
- Madelon L. & Richard N. Rosett Professor -- RIT, 2000-2009
- Research Professor and Director of the Technology Management Center -- RIT, 1999-Present
- Associate Professor of Operations Management -- University of Michigan, 1987-1999
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Industrial & Operations Engineering -- University of Michigan, 1984-1987
- Senior Researcher and Manager -- Industrial Technology Institute, 1984-1987
- Associate Professor of Management -- DePaul University, 1978-1984
- Assistant Professor of Management -- University of Illinois at Chicago, 1972-1978
Professional Memberships
- Academy of Management, PDMA, Informs
Awards
- Best in Conference Paper, DSI, May 2007
- Featured Article and finalist for best article of 2006, Decision Sciences Journal, 2006
- Fulbright Scholar Program, 2005
- Best Paper Award, "Scale, R&D Performance and Idea Profiles for New Products", GBATA International Conference, 2005
- Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing, Books and Monographs category for Engineered in Japan, Koblenz, Germany, 1996
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
- Forthcoming -- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, Journal of Product Innovation Management -- “Service vs. Manufacturing Innovation,”, with Stephen Rosenthal, 2010
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, Journal of Product Innvovation Management -- Design Reuse in Manufacturing and Services,, with Matt Kubarek, 457-472, September 1, 2008
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, Research-Technology Management -- The Changing Role of R&D Gatekeepers, with Jorg Elsenbach, 59-66, September, 2007
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Sole Author, Journal of Product Innovation Management -- Perspective: Empirical Generalization and the Role of Culture in New Product Development, 180-183, March, 2007
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, Journal of Product Innovation Management -- Modified Stage-Gate Regimes in New Product Development, with J. Elsenbach, 20-33, January, 2007
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, Journal of Global Business and Technology -- Scale, R&D Performance and Idea Profiles for New Products: A Comparative Study of U.S. and German Manufacturing Firms, with Jorg Elsenbach, November, 2006
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, Decision Sciences -- Technology-Based New Product Development Partnerships, with Paul A. Pavlou, 117-147, May, 2006
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, International Journal of Operations and Production Management -- Strategic Predictors of Successful Enterprise System Deployment, with V.J. Perotti, D.A. Joseph, M.J. Cotteleer, 953-972, September, 2005
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Primary Author, The Journal of Product Innovation Management -- Changing Strategies and Tactics for New Product Development, with M. Subramaniam, 95-109, March, 2004
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Sole Author, Journal of Product Innovation Management -- Research-Based Pedagogy for New Product Development: MBA's vs. Engineers in Different Countries, January, 2002
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Equal Author, International Journal of Operations and Production Management -- Locus of Supply and Global Manufacturing, with K. Sethuraman, March, 2001
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Equal Author, Journal of Quality Management -- Technology, Customization and Reliability, with Michael D. Johnson, 193-210, 6, 2001
- Contributions to Practice, Equal Author, Strategic Finance -- Target Costing Can Boost Your Bottom Line, with Germain Boer, 49, July, 1999
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Sole Author, Management Science -- R&D and Global Manufacturing Performance, 1, January, 1998
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Sole Author, Production and Operations Management -- Quality, Technology, and Global Manufacturing, 150, July, 1997
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Equal Author, Academy of Management Journal -- U.S.-Japanese Manufacturing Equity Relationships, with P. Swan, 462, April, 1997
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Sole Author, Journal of Operations Management -- Integrated Design and New Product Success, 33, February, 1997
- Contributions to Practice, Equal Author, Business Strategy Review -- US manufacturing in the early 1990s: The chase and challenge, 53, January, 1997
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Sole Author, Management Science -- Product-Process Development Integration in Manufacturing, 1224, July, 1995
- Equal Author, Management Science -- Flexibility Ratios and Manufacturing Strategy, with J. Penner-Hahn, 1444, November, 1994
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Equal Author, Marketing Letters -- Product Development Benchmarking versus Constomer Focus in Applications of Quality Function Deployment, with Michael D. Johnson, 107, 1994
- Contributions to Practice, Equal Author, Interfaces -- High Technology Manufacturing in Low Technology Plants, with Joan Penner-hahn, 25, November, 1993
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Equal Author, Academy of Management Journal -- Organizational Integration and Process Innovation, with Ernesto Reza, 795, October, 1992
- Contributions to Practice, Sole Author, Academy of Management Executive -- What Makes a Manufacturing Firm Innovative, 7, November, 1990
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Sole Author, Annals of Operations Research -- Manufacturing Technology Policy and Deployment of Processing Innovations, 3, 1988
- Contributions to Practice, Primary Author, Interfaces -- Integrating Design and Manufacturing to Deploy Advanced Manufacturing Technology, with S.A.Reiferis, 63, November, 1987
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Sole Author, Management Science -- The Impact of Interorganizational Manpower Flows on the Innovation Process, 1055, September, 1985
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Equal Author, Management Science -- Organizational Strategy and Structural Differences for Radical Versu Incremental Innovation, with W. Bridges and R. O'Keefe, 682, June, 1984
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Sole Author, Academy of management Journal -- Organizational Policy and Innovation Among Suppliers to the Food Processing Sector, March, 1983
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Equal Author, Technological Forecasting and social Change -- Simulating the Flow of Innovations to the U.S. Automotive Industry, with A.H.Rubenstein, 1981
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Sole Author, Management Science -- Manpower Flows and the Innovation Process, 1086, November, 1980
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Sole Author, Decision Sciences -- Evolution of the Productive Segment and Transportation Innovations, 399, July, 1979
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Equal Author, Management Science -- The Adoption Time Period for Some Transportation Innovations, with D.B.Vellenga, 429, May, 1979
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Sole Author, Academy of Management Review -- Real-time Studies in Organizational Research, 298, April, 1977
Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Contributions to Practice, Global Business and Technology Association, Lisbon, Portugal -- Scale, R&D Performance and Idea Profiles for New Products, with J. Elsenbach, July, 2005
Books (including Instructional Textbooks)
- Learning and Pedagogical Research, Sole Author, -- Managing Innovation, 2nd Edition, April, 2006
- Contributions to Practice, Sole Author, -- Managing Technological Innovation, March, 2000
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Equal Author, -- Engineered in Japan, 1995
- Contributions to Practice, Equal Author, -- Managing the Design-Manufacturing Process, with H.W.Stoll, 1990
- Contributions to Practice, Equal Author, -- Manufacturing Strategy: The research Agenda for the Next Decade, 1990
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Sole Author, -- Taking Charge of Manufacturing, 1988
Other
- Forthcoming -- Learning and Pedagogical Research, Sole Author, -- Templates for Innovation: A Comment on Mumford, Bedell and Hunter (2005), August, 2006
- Contributions to Practice, Sole Author, Academy of Management Review -- The Perpetual Enterprise Machine, with Academy of Management Review, 294, January, 1996
- Contributions to Practice, Sole Author, Administrative Science Quarterly -- Ann Majchrzak: The Human Side of Factory Automation, 141, March, 1989
- Discipline-based Scholarship, Equal Author, Decision Sciences -- Social Learning Theory and the Implementation of Production Innovation, with A.H.Rubenstein, 648, October, 1980
Unpublished Conference Presentations
- Formalizing the Service Innovation Process, DSI Mini-Conference on Service Science, 2007
- Scale, R&D Performance and Idea Profiles for New Products, GBATA, 2005
- The Information Processing View of Innovation and New Product Development, GBATA, 2005
- Is Service Innovation at the Divide or the Perpetual Beta Process?, Academy of Management Meeting-August, 2004
- Adoption of Collaborative Engineering Technologies and New Product Development, 10th International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems-March, 2004
- Regime Migration and Innovation in Organizations (Updates), MINE Conference-October, 2003
- The Adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems, Academy of Management Meeting-August, 2003
- The MBA Elective in Technology Management: Learning to Remember What is Memorable, Academy of Management Meeting-August, 2003
- Modified Stage-Gate Regimes in New Product Development, Innovation Research Network-May, 2003
- Regime Migration and Innovation in Organizations (Updates), MINE Conference-June, 2003
- Regime Migration and Innovation in Organizations (Updates), MINE Conference-April, 2003
- Regime Migration and Innovation in Organizations (Updates), MINE Conference-February, 2003
- Regime Migration and Innovation in Organizations, MINE Conference-November, 2002
- Is Disruptive Technology Necessary for Ambidextrous Organizations?, PDMA Annual International Conference-October, 2002
- Post Industrial Manufacturing, Academy of Management Conference-August, 2002
- Is Disruptive Technology Necessary for Ambidextrous Organizations?, New York Innovation Research Network-June, 2002
- Is Disruptive Technology Necessary for Ambidextrous Organizations?, The RIT College of Business Research Conference-May, 2002
- Post-Industrial Manufacturing, 30th Annual ASAC Conference-May, 2002
- Technology, Customization and Reliability , 61st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management-August, 2001
- Research Based Pedagogy for New Product Development: Does Culture Matter?, New York Innovation Research Network-May, 2001
- NY Innovation Research Network Proposal, Presentation at SUNY Buffalo-September, 2000
Externally Funded Contracts/Grants/Research
- Collaborative Research : Sustainability in Disruptive Technology Contexts: Dynamic Capabilities and the Locus of Innovaiton -- Francisco Veloso and Bruce Belzowski, NSF, $$100,100,
- Scholarship for teaching and research at Catolica University, Lisbon, Portugal -- , Fulbright, $,
- Collaborative Research: Service Innovation -- John Ettlie; Stephen Rosenthal, Boston Univ., NSF, $114,129,
- Web-Based New Product Development -- V. Perotti, SAP, America/RIT, $350,000,
Consulting
- Reynolds Metals, Harmon International, Caterpillar Tractor, GE, General Motors Corporation, Ford Motor Company, Allied-Signal Corporation, PACAR, Allen-Bradley, and 20 more., , , 0 - Ongoing
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