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Phillip Phan

Phillip Phan, PhD
Professor and Executive Vice Dean

The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
100 International Drive
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: (410) 234-9434

carey.vdeanphan@jhu.edu

Phillip Phan, PhD (Strategic Management, University of Washington School of Business Administration) joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in 2008. He is a Professor in the research track with expertise in the areas of corporate governance and technological entrepreneurship.

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Honors and Distinctions

  • 2006-2007    Robert Bosch Foundation Public Policy Fellow, The American Academy in Berlin
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Business Venturing
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Financial Stability
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Technology Transfer
  • Editorial Board, Academy of Management Journal
  • 2007    The Stephan Schrader Best Paper Award, for the paper "Scientists or entrepreneurs: Rent (mis)appropriation from discoveries made in university labs." Academy of Management, Technology & Innovation Management Division, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2007).  Authors: Markman, G.D., Gianiodis, P.T., Phan, P.H., & Panagopoulos, A.
  • 2004     Babson Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference recipient for The Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Award for the best paper with the most Significant Implications for Practitioners.
  • 2003     23rd Annual Strategic Management Society Conference recipient for the 6th Annual McKinsey/SMS Best Conference Paper Prize

Selected Publications

  • Wu, Jianfeng, Dean Xu, and Phillip H. Phan (forthcoming) The Effects of Ownership Concentration and Corporate Debt on Corporate Divestitures in Chinese Listed Firms: Evidence for Principal-Principal Conflicts, Journal of International Business Studies
  • Fan, Terence and Phillip H. Phan (2007) International New Ventures: Revisiting the Influences behind the ‘Born-Global’ Firm, Journal of International Business Studies, Vol38, No7, pp. 1113-1131
  • Markman Gideon D., Peter T. Gianiodis, Phillip H. Phan and David B. Balkin (2005) “Innovation Speed: Transferring University Technology to Market”, Research Policy, Vol34, pp. 1058-1075
  • Yoshikawa, Toru, Phillip H. Phan and Parthiban David (2005) “The Impact of Ownership Structure on Wage Intensity in Japanese Corporations”, Journal of Management, Vol31 No2, pp. 278-300
  • Markman, Gideon D., Martiza I. Espina, and Phillip H. Phan (2004) “Patents as Surrogates for Inimitable and Non-Substitutable Resources”, Journal of Management, Vol30 No4, pp. 529-544
  • Lee, Soo-Hoon, and Phillip H. Phan, (2000) “Competencies of Directors in Global Firms: Requirements for Recruitment and Evaluation”, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol8 No3, pp.204-214
  • Phan, Phillip H., and Butler, John E., and Lee, Soo H., (1996) “Crossing-Mother: Entrepreneur-Franchisees’ Attempts to Reduce Franchiser Influence”, Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 379-402
  • Phan, Phillip H., and Hill, Charles W.L., (1995) “Leveraged Buyouts: An Ex-Post Study”, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 704-739
  • Hill, Charles W.L., and Phan, Phillip H., (1991), “CEO Tenure as a Determinant of CEO Pay”, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 707-717

Works in Progress

  • “The Impact of Corporate Governance on Innovation: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry”
  • “Measuring Environmental Strategy: Construct Development, Reliability and Validity”
  • “The Relationship between Corporate Governance and the Firm’s Environmental Impact”
  • “Research in Microfinance: Topics, Findings, Future Questions”
  • “A Knowledge-Based View of Product Diversification and the Inventive Productivity of Technology-Based Firms”

Teaching Interests

  • Technology & Comp Advantage
  • Corporate Governance
  • Strategic Management Theory Seminar