BA MA (Engineering) Balliol College, Oxford, UK
PhD (Strategy) Manchester Business School, UK
Royal Navy service in experimental submarines, thence to Oxford and, after graduation, to work as a nuclear submarine reactor engineer with Rolls-Royce & Associates, sales manager IBM (UK), consultant with Decision Technology International (Boston), merchant banker with Slater-Walker Securities, and thence to the doctoral program at Manchester Business School. When I finally got done my thesis won the Academy of Management's 1980 A. T. Kearney PhD Research Prize and a tidied-up version was later published as "Industry Recipes" (Blackwell, 1989) - which you can download here.
Faculty service at City University (London), York University (Toronto) and UCLA. Back into business as VP Marketing & Strategy with Enigma Logic, inventors of the SafeWord authentication system and now part of Secure Computing Corporation. After a few years of this computer stuff, travelling all over the US and Europe, I migrated back to the UK and academe into the Chair in Strategy at the University of Glasgow (Adam Smith's university). Two years later returned to New York (now definitely our home), the Stevens Institute of Technology (FW Taylor's university), and Rutgers University.
After a year's sabbatical with the Advanced Technology Program (US Deparment of Commerce), became Dean of the School of Management, New York Institute of Technology. Final move to Dean, School of Business and Technology, FIT/SUNY (not very user-friendly website). Retired April 2003.
Now consulting, researching and writing about the theory of the firm, knowledge management and so forth. Visiting appointments at Leeds University, Cranfield University, and Open University, assisting the Emerald Group Publishing as their North American Academic Adviser. Also recently appointed to the Svenska Handelsbanken Visiting Chair of Knowledge Management at Lund University's School of Economics and Management and to the 2007-2008 Fulbright-Queen's School of Business Research Chair.
email: jcspender@yahoo.com
See also my full and agonizingly detailed academic resume
