Faculty Information - PARDO Phillip Dean

■ Education

1.	1982/09～1984/08	Finance and Tax Accounting, MBA, Division of Business Administration, THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Washington DC, Graduated
2.	1978/12	Procurement & Grants Management, 経営学部, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C., Graduated, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Procurement & Grants Management)
3.	1978/12	Certification in European Integration, 経営学部, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C., Graduated

■ Academic and professional experience

1.	2011/04～	Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Japan. Professor and Assoc Dean (International and Student Affairs) Professor and Associate Dean
2.	2004/08～2006/06	KBTU (Kazakh British Technical University) Almaty, Kazakhstan Department of Management Vice-Rector and Director, Professor of Management
3.	2000/09～2004/07	KIMEP (Kazakhstan Institute Management Economics and Strategic Research) Almaty Kazakhstan Continuing Education Evening MBA Distance and Executive programs. Associate Dean and Chair of College of Continuing Education
4.	2006/07～2007/01	KACEBI (Kazakhstan Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation) Principle Consultant and Trainer, AMA certificate and Joint International MBA and Bachelors Programs
5.	2004/07～2008/12	BIG SKY ENERGY CORPORATION – NASDAQ listed Oil and Gas Company. Independent Director (Audit Committee)
6.	1987/02～1989/12	Deauville Estates (Time sharing resort) - PPC Montreal Canada Planning and Development Vice President/Project Manager
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■ Message

Message to undergraduate students: My role as an Accounting teacher is to help students understand the purpose, theories, methods and practical applications of the Language of Business in an active classroom. Message to graduate school students: Communication, management and verification are the goals of accounting. Humanity and business have long relied on the information generated by the language of accounting to make sense of their activities.

■ Current specialized field

Taxation, International, Transfer Pricing, Virtuous Management, Codes of Conduct, Resilience, Inclusivity, Impact, Audit and Governance, Data Analytics for Hospitality, Professional Engagement, International Business Transactions, Project Management, International Accounting

■ Books and theses

1.	2022	Article	The Contribution of Sustainable Practices to Financial Performance and Firm Value in Companies in Developing Countries: The Case of India Journal of Hospitality and Tourism 20(1),pp.43-58 (Collaboration)
2.	2022	Article	“Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (SEP): Thailand's Emic Approach to Governance and Development as Evidence of an Asian-value Oriented Inclusive Leadership Management Philosophy” Strategic Analysis ( 46(4),pp.430-440 (Collaboration)
3.	2021/04	Article	“Corporatism and Benevolent Authoritarianism: Viable Antidotes to Populism” Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences 11(April),pp.95-98 (Collaboration)
4.	2021	Article	The Impact of the Global Pandemic on Part-time Employees in the Tourism Industry: A Case Study of Beppu, Japan Journal of Hospitality & Tourism (JOHAT.org) 18(2),pp.30-52 (Collaboration)
5.	2020/07/15	Book	"L’engagement professionnel Un référentiel de performance" (Collaboration)
6.	2016/11	Book	Mastery-Altruism-Passion Model: Return to Knightly Virtues in Business pp.ALL (Collaboration)
7.	2017/07	Book	Social Media and Knowledge Transfer in Tourism: Five-Star Hotels in Philadelphia pp.239-255 (Collaboration)
8.	2016/06	Book	Artificial Neural Network Modelling - Application of Artificial Neural Network in Social Media Data Analysis: A Case of Lodging Business in Philadelphia (Chapter 16) pp.Chapter 16 (Collaboration)
9.	2015/06	Article	Knowledge Transfer in the Tourism Industry: Implications of the use of social media in business analysis Journal of Hospitality & Tourism (JOHAT) Vol. 13(No. 1),pp.1-15 (Collaboration)
10.	2013/05	Article	TOURISM, TRAVEL AND TWEETS: Algorithmic Text Analysis Methodologies in Tourism Middle East J. of Management (MEJM), INDERSCIENCE Vol. 1(No. 1),pp.81-99 (Collaboration)
11.	2013/08	Article	The Impact of Technology Innovativeness On Four And Five Star Hotels In Switzerland Journal of Hospitality & Tourism (JOHAT) Volume - 11(No. 1),pp.1-18 (Collaboration)
12.	2011/06	Article	Market Orientation and Business Performance: evidence from the hotel industry in Germany Int. J. Leisure and Tourism Marketing Vol.2(No. 3),pp.232-247 (Collaboration)
13.	2015/07	Book	Current Issues and Emerging Trends in Medical Tourism - An Early Pioneer of Medical Tourism's Use of the Internet and Social Media(Chapter 12) pp.162-172 (Single)
14.	2015/07	Book	Current Issues and Emerging Trends in Medical Tourism - The Americas (Chapter 22) pp.310-326 (Single)
15.	2014/12	Book	Tourism and Social Media: Algorithmic Text Analysis Methodologies in Tourism & Hospitality pp.537-551 (Collaboration)
16.	2014/10	Other	The Link Between Social Sentiment of Currency Value and Tourism Behavior: A Case of The Ruble Crisis (Collaboration)
17.	2010/02	Other	Tourism Resources Improvement Program (TRIP), Sri Lanka (JICA Funding) (Collaboration)
18.	2013/10	Other	WISDOM TOOTH: Achieving the Family vision, a small business accounting case (Single)
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■ Conference presentations

1.	2021	Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (SEP): Thailand's Emic Approach to Governance and Development as Evidence of an Asian-value Oriented Inclusive Leadership Management Philosophy
2.	2020/11/14	Cultivating Diversity and Inclusive Leadership (Program for the Health Care and Tourism Industry in Oita Prefecture) (CIL Special Session for 2020 AP Conference)
3.	2018/05/10	COLLABORATING ACROSS CULTURES, BORDERS, DISCIPLINES AND PROGRAMS. (AACSB ‘MBA Curriculum Conference’ 2018)
4.	2015/05/04	KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN THE TOURISM INDUSTRY: IMPLICATIONS OF THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN BUSINESS ANALYSIS (The t-FORUM 2015 Global Conference Tourism Intelligence in Action. Italy. May 2015)
5.	2015/02/10	RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA DATA AND HOTEL OCCUPANCY: A CASE STUDY IN PHILADELPHIA (APUGSM Conference 2014-5 (ISSN No. 2186-6090))
6.	2015/02/09	MEDICAL TOURISM IN THE AMERICAS - A REVIEW OF RECENT ISSUES AND TRENDS. (APUGSM Conference 2014-5 (ISSN No. 2186-6090))
7.	2013/09/23	INNOVATIVE MARKETING STRATEGIES IN FAMILY OWNED BUSINESSES: A WORK IN PROGRESS FRAMEWORK TO INTEGRATE SOCIAL MEDIA (6th EuroMed Conference - 2013)
8.	2013/08/19	THE CANARY IN THE ROOM: THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM STOCKS (6th International Colloquium on Tourism & Leisure conference)
9.	2013/02/05	Doshisha University Special Lectures 1) CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 2) CHALLENGES OF TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES(Central Asia) (DOSHISHA University Global Studies Program)
10.	2012/02/01	CORPORATE AUDITING AS A TOOL OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPARENCY - “AUDIT RISKS IN CERTAIN EMERGING MARKETS“ (JICA SPECIAL CONFERENCE IN KYRGYZSTAN)
11.	2010/06/07	PERCEPTIONS OF INNOVATIVENESS AMONG SWISS HOTEL MANAGERS. (2010 EUROPEAN APPLIED BUSINESS RESEARCH CONFERENCE, DUBLIN, IRELAND)
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■ Research topic, funded research and KAKENHI

1.	2014	Prediction of Hotel Occupancy Rates using Social Media Data (Key Word : Data Mining, Predictive Analysis, sentiment modeling, Social Media,Hotel Occupancy, Hospitality, Change point analysis, algorithmic analysis, Forecasting, Big Data)
2.	2013	Designing an Internet Application:Analyzing Components and Presentation for an open-source application for Geotourists (Key Word : GeoTourism, Internet Application, open-source applications, Tourism)
3.	2013	Innovative Marketing Strategies in Family Owned Businesses: A Framework to Integrate Social Media. (Key Word : Family Owned Business,FOB, Social media, Innovativeness, Marketing Strategy, FOB performance)
4.	2011～2014	TOURISM, TRAVEL AND TWEETS: Algorithmic Text Analysis Methodologies in Tourism (Key Word : Sentiment mining, Business Analytics, Tweets, Hospitality, Micro-Blogs, Algorithmic Text Analysis)
5.	2013～2014	WISDOM TOOTH, Achieving the Family Vision, a small business accounting case in Japan. (Key Word : SME Accounting, Family Owned Business (FOB), Capital Budgeting,Financial statement analysis, Ratio analysis,Loan and Lease versus Buy decision making, Japan SME Taxation, SME insurance, Inheritance and Continuity Planning for SMEs.)
6.	2011～2013	The Impact of Technology Innovativeness On Four And Five Star Hotels In Switzerland (Key Word : Technology, Innovativeness, TI, Hotels, 4 and 5 star, Hospitality ROI, Competition in Hotel industry, Switzerland)
7.	2011～2013	Innovation in the Accounting and Hospitality sectors as well as the effects on Management of CGM Reviews, CRM and Social Media on the Hospitality industry. (Key Word : Sentiment analysis in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Hotel Business Performance, Accounting Innovation, Customer Generated Reviews, CGM, Twitter reviews, Taxation, Central Asia Accounting, Kazakhstan Economy.)
8.	2009～2011	Market orientation and business performance: evidence from the hotel industry in Germany (Key Word : Market Orientation, Customer orientation, Competition orientation, Inter-functional coordination, Hotel Performance,Market Share improvement)
9.	2012	The Predictive Value of Social Media for Hospitality and Tourism Stocks (Key Word : Social media, Micro-Blogs, Sentiment mining, Hospitality stocks, Financial forecasting)
10.	2014～2015	Forecasting Hotel Occupancy Rates with traditional methods supplemented with social media data. (Key Word : )
11.	2010～2012	Human Resources Improvement Project to upgrade the curriculum and management of the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism & Hospitality Management as part of the Tourism Resources Improvement Program, Colombo, Sri Lanka (Key Word : )
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■ Awards and honors

1.	2015/09	Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Award for Contribution to the University
2.	2013/07	Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Award for Contribution to the University

■ Educational ability

● Practice example of education method
1.	2015/08～2019/12	NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY _IMPLEMENTATION OF E-BOOK AND E-LEARNING SYSTEM (WileyPlus) for Accounting 1 & 2 course.
2.	2015/05～	MSU-APU (RUSSIA /JAPAN) CASE PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION USING WEB BASED COOPERATION AND PRESENTATION METHODS FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ACCOUNTING AT BOTH THE MBA AND UNDERGRADUATE LEVELS
3.	2015/04～	COACH/ADVISOR INTERNATIONAL CASE COMPETITIONS (TUBS , CBS , AVC)
4.	2014/09/15～	IMPLEMENTATION OF E-BOOK AND E-LEARNING SYSTEM (WileyPlus)for Accounting 1 & 2 course.
5.	2014/09/15～2015/02/15	IMPLEMENTATION OF SOCRATIVE SYSTEM for Accounting 1 & 2 courses. This is a free mobile phone based 'cliquer' system.
6.	2014/04/01～2014/11/30	SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION of BLACKBOARD 9.1 in Accounting 1 Class in 2014.
7.	2013/10/01～	IMPLEMENTATION OF PRE AND POST COURSE TESTING FOR ACCOUNTING 1 & 2.
8.	2013/04/01	SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION of BLACKBOARD 9.1 in Accounting 2 Class in 2013 and PREPARATION FOR IMPLEMENTATION in Accounting 1 class for 2014.
● Made textbook and teaching material
1.	2015/12/01～	IMPLEMENTATION OF E-LEARNING CLASS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING WILEYPLUS IN MBA CORE ACCOUNTING COURSE
2.	2014/12/31～	IMPLEMENTATION OF LARGE CLASS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING WILEYPLUS IN ACCOUNTING 1 & 2 COURSES
3.	2014/09/15～	ONLINE "10 K" CORPORATE ANNUAL REPORT ANALYSIS FOR ACCOUNTING 1 & 2
4.	2012/09/30	INSTRUCTOR MANUAL (Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management)
● Announcement concerning education
1.	2011/09/05	Teaching and Learning in the Active Classroom (Presenter for Ritsumeikan TRIP project , Sri Lanka)
● Matter that should be mentioned specially in others educational activity
1.	2015/03	AACSB TRAINING
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■ Professional contribution to Society

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2021/06～2022/03

Winning Team Faculty Advisor CFA Institute Research Challenge（国内）

■ Committee and society

1.	2013～2015	Rotary Club of Beppu North, Japan 50th Anniversary Committee
2.	2010～2011	Rotary Club of Crans-Montana, Switzerland Past President
3.	2006～2008	Rotary Club of Whyalla, SA, Australia Past Member
4.	2003～2004	Rotary Club of Almaty, Kazakhstan Past President
5.	2001～2003	Charge of the “Annual Almaty Vienna Ball” Rotary Board Member
6.		American Chamber of Commerce, Kazakhstan Past Member
7.		American Chamber of Commerce, Uzbekistan Founding Member
8.		Rotary Club of Beppu North, Japan Past Member
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■ Exhibitions, concerts, and competitions

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2002/01/01～2002/12/31

Valuation methodology in Kazakhstan – ICSID (World Bank), London 2002 Discount rates in DCF models in Kazakhstan – ICSID (World Bank), London 2002 Real Estate Values in Almaty 1998-2002 – ICSID (World Bank), London 2002 (ICSID London, UK and Almaty, Kazakhstan)

■ External Researcher ID

orcID

0000-0001-8834-8789