Robert Phillips (born April 18, 1968) is the George R. Gardiner Professor in Business Ethics and Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at the
Schulich School of Business
The Schulich School of Business is the business school of York University located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The institution provides undergraduate and graduate degree and diploma programs in business administration, finance, accounting, busine ...
;
York University
York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,000 faculty and staf ...
. In 2016–17, he was the Gourlay Visiting Professor of Ethics in Business. He has also taught at the University of Richmond, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (Shanghai, China), the University of San Diego, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
Phillips was born in
Asheville, North Carolina, and received a
B.S. from
Appalachian State University
Appalachian State University (; Appalachian, App State, App, or ASU) is a public university in Boone, North Carolina. It was founded as a teachers college in 1899 by brothers B. B. and D. D. Dougherty and the latter's wife, Lillie Shull Dough ...
, an
M.B.A. from the
University of South Carolina, and a
Ph.D. from
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with College admission ...
in 1997. He is known for his work on
stakeholder theory and organizational ethics. His published work includes four books (including ''Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics'' and ''The Cambridge Handbook of Stakeholder Theory'' and dozens of scholarly articles, several of which have been reprinted around the world in multiple languages. He is a senior fellow at the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics and section editor at
Journal of Business Ethics
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. He was formerly associate editor of
Business & Society, Representative-at-Large at the
Strategic Management Society
The Strategic Management Society (SMS) is a professional society for the advancement of strategic management. The society consists of nearly 3,000 members representing various backgrounds and perspectives from more than eighty different countries. ...
, and is past-president of the
Society for Business Ethics
References
External links
CSR Video Update: Interview with Robert Phillips, 2010LOTTERBRAUN im Gespräch mit Robert Phillips - YouTube.com, 2010*Dublin City University lecture on Responsible Banking an
Investment
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1968 births
Living people
People from Asheville, North Carolina
American business theorists
University of Virginia Darden School of Business alumni
American ethicists
Appalachian State University alumni
University of South Carolina alumni