Research
Research
Paul’s current research encompasses both theory and practice. He believes that bridging academic research with industry and policymakers can influence the development of sustainable business practices. He collaborates with academic researchers, practitioners, and policymakers across national boundaries through an interdisciplinary approach.
Current writing projects include
Commissioned by Routledge to write a textbook that looks to hit the sweet spot interlinking sustainability and strategic management
EdTech Strategy Playbook for Higher Education Institutions
Theory of the Firm and overcoming the growth sclerosis in emerging countries
Research Impact and value appropriation
Hospitality and Tourism Performance Management and Measurement
Research and Institutional Impact
The continual debate about the practical utility of academic research remains the subject of intense enquiry in both the academic and practitioner landscape. A central theme is the divide between academic researchers and practitioners. Paul’s work in the research impact space delivers end-user value.
Integrative Impact Value Reporting - Research and Innovation
The Integrative Impact Value Reporting - Research and Innovation framework was developed by work conducted by Professor Paul A Phillips and Professor Victor Newman to facilitate academic culture adaption to the emerging external environment. The resulting Old-New Game Value Framework is based on the shared cultural perception of how ‘games’ change when players choose to introduce new practices that change the nature of the game being played. This integrating framework encompasses leadership, organisation culture and strategy and can incorporate the different mixes of paradoxes and contradictions in the delivery of organisation objectives. As firms’ needs evolve, additional values and expectations emerge, which create a complex terrain for institutional change, which needs to connect with employees and other stakeholders. Both points are critical stumbling blocks.
The Research Impact Strategy Playbook Newman and Phillips (2023)
Our playbook is for the individual researcher, research leader or research strategist who wants to begin the process of introducing a research impact capability to themselves, their team, school, discipline or higher education institution (HEI) and doesn’t know how to begin the process of introducing a new and different approach to research practice.
This playbook is designed to deliver a selection of key concepts, ideas and practical tools to enable researchers and leaders to develop research impact as a practice, and in the process: to take the first steps in becoming practitioners. The playbook reflects ideas developed on our journey to explore and unpack the potential of research impact as a practice.
Interestingly, entrepreneurs (as well as academics committed to research impact) have commented on the usefulness of the tools provided within the playbook.
Key Research Activities
One of Paul’s key research activities lies in how to create impactful research. He is applying the lessons learnt to himself and has developed a range of impact-oriented services that help Universities align their institutional approaches to impact with their everchanging external environments.
Key Drivers for Change
Institutional approaches to impact are a particularly important activity today as universities seek to work more closely with private, public and third-sector stakeholders beyond academia.
We have seen that some of the key drivers for change in this area include:
Goverment Policy
Finite Resources
Regional Priorities
Exciting Sense
This is a major opportunity for researchers, and it is helping to ensure that together we are able to contribute significantly to addressing social, cultural, economic, and environmental challenges that affect us all.
Journal of Business Research
Paul was the Managing Guest Editor with his colleagues for a Special Issue of the Journal of Business Research entitled Latin America and The Caribbean Economy: A Growth Agenda.
Guest editors
The Purpose of The Special Issue
The current mosaic of challenges can provide a unique set of conditions for academics within and outside the region to connect test theories and innovative and sustainable solutions. While prior studies draw attention to some of these challenges, they do not fully address the region's issues. One under-explored route in the literature is encouraging innovative, high-impact research that links theory with practical insights to deliver value to Latin America and The Caribbean (LAC) ecosystem members.
In this Special Issue, we seek business and management contributions that provide more answers through research “that explore the various critical phenomenon that is adversely affecting the LAC Region".
