Robert A. PhillipsVisiting Associate Professor of Management
Office: RSB 310
Phone: (804) 289-8623
Fax: (804) 289-8878
Email: rphilli3@richmond.edu
Teaching:
Business Ethics
Research:
Organizational Ethics
Stakeholder Theory
Education:
BSBA, Appalachian State University
MBA, University of South Carolina
PhD, University of Virginia
Selected Publications:
Ties that Unwind: Dynamism in Integrative Social Contracts Theory, (with Michael Johnson-Cramer), forthcoming in Journal of Business Ethics; Value Chain Responsibility: A Farewell to Arm’s Length, Business & Society Review, (2005) 110(4), pp. 345-70; Resource dependence, managerial discretion and stake-holder performance (with S.L. Berman & A.C. Wicks), Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2005); Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics (2003) San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; What stakeholder theory is not, (with R.E. Freeman & A.C. Wicks), Business Ethics Quarterly, 13(4): 479-502 (2003); Stakeholder legitimacy, Business Ethics Quarterly, 13(1): 25-41 (2003); The environment as a stakeholder? A fairness-based approach, (with J. Reichart), Journal of Business Ethics, 23: 185-97 (2000); Toward an ethics of organizations, (with J. D. Margolis), Business Ethics Quarterly, 9(4): 619-38 (1999)
Academic and Professional Activities:
Board of Directors: Society for Business Ethics, 2006-2011; Academy of Management: Social Issues in Management Division Chair, Research Committee, Research Roundtable Coordinator, Membership Committee, Doctoral Consortium Panelist; Member: Society for Business Ethics, Academy of Management, International Association for Business and Society; Guest Co-editor: Business Ethics Quarterly, special issue on corporate accountability; Ad Hoc Reviewer: Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Business Ethics Quarterly, Business and Society, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Academy of Management, Society for Business Ethics, International Association of Business and Society; Best Paper Committee, International Association of Business and Society, (2005); Membership Committee, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management
Awards:
Best Paper, Society for Business Ethics, 1998; Finalist, Best Paper, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management (1998, 2005); Finalist, Best Dissertation, , Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management (1997); Prudential Lecturer in Business Ethics, Rutgers University (2003); Emerging Scholar – Markkula Center, Santa Clara University

