Professor Paul Phillips

After serving as Director of Kent Business School (2007-11), Professor Paul Phillips is Professor of Strategic Management. Prior to being Director, Paul joined Kent Business School in 2004, as Deputy Director. Professor Phillips has held academic appointments at Cardiff Business School and the University of Surrey. In 2001, he was appointed to a full Professorship as the Charles Forte Chair of Hotel Management, which was created by a generous endowment from Forte plc in 1986 at the School of Management, University of Surrey, UK.
Paul has served as Chair of the UK Association of Business Schools (ABS) Research Steering Committee, and Member of the ABS Executive Committee. He chaired the 2010 ABS Annual Research Conference and the 2010 ABS Annual Doctor of Business Administration Conference. Paul has served on the Institute of Business Ethics Advisory Council, Westminster Business School Advisory Board and Founder and Inaugural Chair of the ABS International and External Relations subcommittee.
Professor Phillips has completed the Experienced Deans’ and New Deans’ Seminar Series, Association to Advance Collegiate School of Business (AACSB), International. He completed the International Deans’ Programme, Association of Business School/European Foundation for Management Development, and the Leading Change and Organisational Renewal Programme, Harvard Business School, Harvard University.
Paul has served as a Visiting Professor at three universities in China: The School of Business Administration, Hunan University, Changsha; International Business School, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing; School of Economics, Shandong University, Ji’nan. Professor Phillips was a member of the Institutional and Course Approval team at Globsyn Business School, Kolkata, which is conceptualised as India’s first Corporate-Business School.  

Hospitality and Tourism, Performance measurement and management, Digital strategy, Management consultancy, Business school research and teaching impact, and solving the UK productivity puzzle. Professor Phillips is particularly interested to receive doctoral enquiries on any of his research interests.
Professor Phillips has obtained more than £150k in research funding for his research on the application of strategic management in digitised environments.
He has undertaken studies for Association of Chartered Certified Accountants - impact of e-business on accountants; Qinetiq - examining organisational change and its measurement and optimisation of organisation structures and processes; BAe Systems - e-procurement strategy implementation. This has led to him to advise the UK Ministry of Defence and the Chinese defence organisation (People's Liberation Army) on the incorporation of best practice digitisation processes into military battlespace. 

Recent Best Paper Awards: 

• Tourism Megatrends and their Implications for Strategic Planning Practice, International Conference on Innovation and Management, Hiroshima, Japan, (July 9-12, 2019)
• Synergetic Effect of Emotions on the Travel Motivation of Senior Tourists, TMS Algarve: Tourism & Management Studies, International Conference, Olhao, Portugal, (November 16-19, 2017) (with Maria Helena Pestana, M H and Moutinho, L). 

During his career, Professor Phillips has led modules in strategic management, strategic financial strategy, management accounting at undergraduate and postgraduate (MSc and MBA) levels.
Paul has written textbooks for each module he currently convenes and lectures: 

Professor Phillips has written textbooks for each module he currently convenes and lectures:

1. CB934 Strategy - (Postgraduate Module) Core textbook - Phillips, P. and Moutinho, L (2018) Contemporary Issues in Strategic Management (Routledge). 
2. CB757 Research and Consultancy Methods – (Undergraduate Module) - Core textbook - Phillips, P. A. Subramanian, K V and Newman, V. (2019) Management Consultancy Through an Academic and Practitioner Perspective 

He also contributes to the MBA module - CB9144 Global Strategic Management. Professor Phillips previously convened the MBA module -CB945 Contemporary Issues in Strategic Management  

Professor Phillips is particularly interested to receive doctoral enquiries on any of his research interests. 

Current Supervisees

• Feyi Olorunshola: User Experience of Hotel Guest with Disability (TBF) 

Past Supervisees

• Dwi Kurniawan: BSCs in Networks: Indonesian SME's
• Jeanette Hexter: Cultural Implications for International Companies, Strategic Implications of Managing Multi-cultural Work Forces
• Alexandra Lipitakis: E-Business Strategic Planning and Performance: A Comparative Study of the UK and Greece 

Paul’s early business career was working as a qualified accountant and a senior management consultant with Price Waterhouse. Professor Phillips holds MBA and PhD (Strategic Planning Systems in Hotels) degrees from Cardiff Business School and is also a qualified marketer. With more than two decades of senior experience of strategic management, performance management and digital business strategy, Paul acts as a conduit for those organisations who are trying to address complex data, knowledge, technological and change management issues to drive business growth. 

He has specialised international experience for Private Sector, Governments and Government Agencies. Specialists projects include organising and delivering specialist financial services short courses for international organisations, such as China Development Bank; digital strategy advice to FTSE 250 companies; Ministry of Defence; World Bank; Caribbean Development Bank; Shell; Guinness; Chinese People’s Liberation Army; Tourism and Hospitality international and national organisations; Hospitals; Police Forces; Knowledge Intensive Organisations.