Nelson Phillips

Nelson Phillips is Professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Phillips’ research interests cut across organization theory, innovation, and technology, and he has published widely for both academics and practitioners including papers in AMJ, AMR, Annals, Organization Science, Harvard Business Review, and the Sloan Management Review. He has also written six books including Discourse Analysis with Cynthia Hardy and Constructing Organizational Life with Tom Lawrence. He is currently working on a book on qualitative methods in organizational research to be published by Cambridge University Press and a book on linguistic methods in management research that will be published by Sage. He is also the co-editor of Innovation: Management and Organization, series co-editor of the Cambridge Elements in Organization Theory, and sits on the board of governors of the Academy of Management. He was elected a fellow of the Academy of Management in 2021.