Robert Allen Phillips


Robert Phillips is the at the Schulich School of Business; York University. in 2016-17 he was the . He has also taught at the University of Richmond, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, 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, 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 in 1997. He is known for his work on stakeholder theory and organizational ethics. His published work includes four books (including and and several of which have been reprinted around the world in multiple languages. He is a Senior Fellow at the and section editor at Journal of Business Ethics. He was formerly associate editor of Business & Society, Representative-at-Large at the Strategic Management Society, and is Past-President of the Society for Business Ethics