Key details
Dr John Tull
Module Leader for Innovation in Competitive Environments (course BUSI1327)
Dr. John Tull joined University of Greenwich following a two-year fulltime postdoctoral fellowship at Royal Holloway, University of London where he conducted extensive research for the ESRC-funded study of NATO state organisational learning/adaptation. He continues to collaborate with that project to co-author its interdisciplinary publications. During this fellowship he also provided teaching/dissertation support to students at final-year UG and PG level.
John comes to academia with extensive experience in international business management in high-tech across Asia, including 7 years in regional C-level executive roles such as Chief Marketing Officer, China & Asia Pacific, Alcatel-Lucent Inc. 2005-2007. From 2009, he transferred those experiences and skills to spend over a decade working/researching in international development as global director, programme director, adviser, grant writer, researcher, and trainer-of-trainers in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America (spanning entrepreneurship development and accelerators, PPP alliances with export multinational partners, commodity value chain sustainability, ICT-based mobile business services).
As a first-generation university student himself, John found this work with thousands of motivated and creative entrepreneurs to be an inspirational example of the power of knowledge, once access to it has been facilitated through effective pedagogic collaboration. The organisational challenges in enabling Educators to collaborate with capable but disadvantaged people, at scale and on an equal footing, formed a key part of his doctoral research work and related consultancy from 2015-20.
Responsibilities within the university
John is a Lecturer in Business Management and the Module Leader for Innovation in Competitive Environments (course BUSI1327)
He is also a co-convenor of the Special Interest Group for Research Methods and Methodologies, for the School of Business, Operations and Strategy.
Awards
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Awarded the Emerald Journal of Intellectual Capital 2007 annual ‘Highly Commended’ Certificate.
Recognition
Co-convenor of the Pragmatism in Organizational Studies international scholarly network (2022-present)
Member of EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) and PHILOS (Philosophy of Organization Studies).
Member of the British Academy of Management
Associate Management & Business Educator (candidate member)
Research / Scholarly interests
John's current research focuses on organisational learning (and mis-learning), specifically military learning in NATO member countries (ESRC 2021-2024). His wider research interests, stemming from lengthy practitioner experience in the high-tech sector in Asia, and in SME development in emerging markets mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, lie in organisational knowledge strategy, practices and innovation policy.
Key funded projects
Continuing to collaborate with the ESRC-funded multi-year project on Lessons Learned in NATO member countries (ES/V004190/1) to complete the publications and impact events.
Recent publications
Nguyen, D.C. and Tull, J.2022. ‘Context and Contextualization: The Extended Case Method in Qualitative International Business Research’, Journal of World Business 57(5) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101348
Tull, J. 2012. ‘Slow Knowledge’: the case for ‘savouring’ learning and innovation - in: Buckley, S. and Jakovljevic, M. (eds.) Knowledge Management Innovations for Interdisciplinary Education: Organizational Applications, pp. 132-156. IGI Global.
Tull, J. and Dumay, J. 2007. 'Does IC management ‘make a difference´? A critical case study application of structuration theory', Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, vol.5:4, 515-26.
Dumay, J. C., Cuganesan, S. and Tull, J. 2007. "Beyond reason: the utility of narrative in advancing the management of intellectual capital." Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research Proceedings (6th: 2007:319-338). University of Sydney.
Dumay, J. and Tull, J. 2007. 'Intellectual capital disclosure and price sensitive Australian stock exchange announcements', Journal of Intellectual Capital, vol.8:2, 236-55.
Presentations
Invited Seminars conducted at Estonian Business School, Tallinn (February 2023), and Royal Holloway Business School, London (October 2023).
Invited presentations at NATO Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centre of Excellence biennial conference, Slovakia, October 2023, and Netherlands Military Advanced Staff Course (September 2022)
Paper presentations at EGOS 2021, 2023; PROS (Process Research for Organisation Studies) 2022; PHILOS (Philosophy of Organisation Studies) conferences 2022, 2023.