Office: 369 RBC Phone: 610-758-5341 Fax: 610-758-6941 Email: tes3@lehigh.edu Business Management Policies Technology, Operations, and Competitive Strategy Science and Technology Policies and Institutions Globalization and Management of Technology Diffusion and Implementation of Technology

Theodore Schlie is Associate Professor of Technology Management in the Department of Management. A graduate of Northwestern University, with MS and PhD degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management Science, his interests cut across the business and engineering colleges and he is a participating faculty member in the graduate Manufacturing Systems Engineering and the undergraduate Integrated Product Development programs, as well as in the MBA and undergraduate business programs. His research interests gravitate toward the intersection of technology/innovation management, competitive strategy, and public policy, and he has published in journals such as The Journal of Business Research, the International Journal of Technology Management, and Research Policy. Dr. Schlie started out his career in a contract research environment, supplying technical and management assistance to industrial research institutes in Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia, Nigeria, Colombia, and other developing countries, and then served in the International Trade Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce as an analyst and program manager. He began his academic career in 1985 at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and has been at Lehigh University since 1989.

Research Interests

• Technology/Innovation Management
• Linkages between Competitive Strategy and Operations Management
• Science, Technology, and Public Policy
• Information Security

Selected Publications

• Direct and Spillover Effects of the ATP-Funded Photonics Technologies, report of a study sponsored by the Advanced Technology Program in the National Institute for Standards and Technology, 2006 (with Todd Watkins)
• Information Security: Impacts of Leadership and Organizational Culture, paper presented at the 17th International Conference of the Information Resources Management Association, May 2006 (with Gary Tarbet)
• Advanced Manufacturing and New Directions for Competitive Strategy, in Journal of Business Research, Vol. 33, No. 2, June 1995 (with Joel Goldhar)