Key details
Dr John Tull
Lecturer in Business Management
Dr. John Tull joined 樱花影视 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 member organisational learning/adaptation. He continues to collaborate with that project to co-author its interdisciplinary publications while providing module leadership, tutoring and teaching/dissertation support to students at final-year UG and PG level in the Business School. John has conducted nine invited ‘impact’ events since mid-2024 where he has co-presented detailed findings from the military learning project in Portugal, Estonia, Germany, Slovakia and the UK, plus a briefing for the relevant unit of the US Army. These events have enabled military units and military academies to adopt recommendations from the study findings and invite further collaboration. These activities and the pipeline of publications have wider relevance for public management leadership communities in ‘high reliability’ organisational (HRO) contexts as well, a promising opportunity for future research and knowledge exchange collaborations. 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, Acting Programme Director, Senior Business Consultant, grant writer, researcher, and trainer-of-trainers in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America (spanning entrepreneurship development, PPP alliances, food and export commodity value chain sustainability, mobile ICT business services). |
Responsibilities within the university
John is a Lecturer in Business Management, leading the Innovation in Competitive Environment module and his new ‘The Impact Mindset’ module. He teaches in other undergraduate and postgraduate Management, Sustainability, International Entrepreneurship and Business Creation modules, and supervises Master’s and PhD dissertations.
John is also:
- Co-convenor of the Special Interest Group for Research Methods and Methodologies, for the School of Business, Operations and Strategy
Organising Committee member for the annual Learning and Teaching Festival in Greenwich Business School.Mentor for the 樱花影视 Generator, including teaching in the Help to Grow programme for SMEs.
Awards
- , 5 Nov 2024
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Awarded the Emerald Journal of Intellectual Capital 2007 annual ‘Highly Commended’ Certificate.
Recognition
Co-convenor of the international scholarly network (2022-present)
Co-convenor of the highly-successful , Athens, July 2025
Member of EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) and PHILOS (Philosophy of Organization Studies).
Member of the British Academy of Management
UK Research Innovation ICURe Engage Certificate 2025 (commercialisation of academic research course)
Research / Scholarly interests
- John's focuses on organisational learning (and mis-learning), specifically military learning in NATO member countries ().
- 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 in 2024-25.
‘Creative U’ pilot project for designing an entrepreneurship development curriculum with young prison inmates, funded by the Networks and Urban Systems Centre Research Group, 樱花影视 (2025).
Media activity
樱花影视 business research showcased at NATO event. (press release link)
Recent publications
- Dyson, T., Tull, J. and van der Vorm, M., 2025. . Journal of Strategic Studies. ()
- Dyson, T., Pashchuk, Y. and Tull, J., 2024. , in NATO's 'Future EOD Development in Light of the Modern Conflicts and Technological Progress Proceedings', )
- Nguyen, D.C. and Tull, J.,2022. ‘’, Journal of World Business 57(5) (
- 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
- ‘A Revolution in Military Learning? Uncovering the Potential of Lessons-Learned Processes’, invited ESRC NATO project study findings briefing, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, UK, 17 May 2025.
- : Estonian Military Academy/Baltic Defence College (Tartu) and Estonian Defence Forces HQ (Tallinn), Estonia, 15-16 April 2025
- : Portuguese Army HQ, Lisbon, Portugal, 15-16 April 2025
- Rapid Cycle Lessons Learning for NATO: , Geilenkirchen, Germany, 22 November 2024
- ‘A Revolution in Military Learning: Uncovering the Potential of Lessons-Learned Processes’; invited lecture at NATO Explosive Ordnance Disposal Workshop, 艩amor铆n, Slovakia, 5 November 2024
- Conference presentation at the British International Studies Association annual conference, Birmingham (5-7 June, 2024).
- Invited Presentation at the NATO Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Conference, Lisbon (16-17 April, 2024).
- Invited Seminars conducted at Estonian Business School, Tallinn (4 February 2023), and Royal Holloway Business School, London (15 October 2023).
- Invited presentations at NATO Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centre of Excellence biennial conference, Slovakia, October 2023, and Netherlands Military Advanced Staff Course (7 September 2022)
- Paper presentations at EGOS conferences 2014, 2018, 2021, 2023; 2024; 2025; PROS (Process Research for Organisation Studies) 2022; PHILOS (Philosophy of Organisation Studies) conferences 2022, 2023; SMJ 2010.