Professor Phillips is the Head of the Organization and Management Group at Imperial College Business School as well as the Director of Executive Education. Prior to joining Imperial College Business School, he was the Beckwith Professor of Management Studies at the Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge from 2002 to 2005 and an Associate Professor in the Strategy and Organisation Area at McGill University in Montreal, Canada from 1993 to 2002. While on sabbatical in 2000/2001, Professor Phillips spent six months as the Edward Clarence Dyason Universitas 21 Fellow at Melbourne University in Melbourne, Australia and six months as a Visiting Professor at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Professor Phillips completed his PhD in Organisational Analysis from the University of Alberta, Canada in 1995.
His research interests include technology strategy, knowledge management, international management, organizational forgetting, discourse methods, and entrepreneurship and family business. He is also involved in a research project with Neri Karra (London College of Fashion) looking at management in the fashion industry. He has published more than 60 academic articles and book chapters including articles in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Sloan Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Organizational Research Methods and Organization Studies. He has also written a book with Cynthia Hardy (Melbourne) entitled Discourse Analysis, which was published in 2002 and has recently completed a second book, Power in Organisations, with Stewart Clegg (University of Technology Sydney) and David Courpasson (EM-Lyon) for the Sage Fundamentals of Organization Science series.
Professor Phillips has taught a range of courses in strategy and organisation theory at the undergraduate and graduate level. He has also teaches widely internationally including regular courses in the EMBA course at Chongqing University in Chongqing, China and in McGill University's MBA program in Tokyo. In addition, he has been very active in executive education where he has been involved in program design and delivery for a wide range of clients including Allen & Overy, Deutsche Bank, BT, ARM, Shell, and the Royal Bank of Canada.
