Stephanie Decker
German-British business historian and management scholar
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Stephanie Decker FAcSS FBAM FHEA is a German-British management and business historian. She is Professor of Strategy at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. Decker is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the British Academy of Management.
Stephanie Decker | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Academic |
| Known for | Research on postcolonial business history and historical methods in management studies |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Cologne University of Liverpool |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Business history Strategy Management studies |
| Institutions | University of Birmingham |
Early life and education
Decker was educated in Germany and the United Kingdom. She earned a Magistra Artium degree from the University of Cologne, followed by an MA and a PhD in history from the University of Liverpool.[1]
Following her PhD, she held an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the London School of Economics (2006–2007)[2] and was a Harvard-Newcomen Fellow in Business History at Harvard Business School (2007–2008).[3]
Career
Decker's teaching career began at the University of Liverpool Management School as a lecturer in international business (2007–2010). She then joined Aston Business School, where she rose from lecturer to professor of organization studies and history by 2014.[1]
In 2020, she was appointed professor of strategy and history at the University of Bristol School of Management.[4] She returned to the West Midlands in 2022 to take up a chair in strategy at the University of Birmingham.[1] During her tenure at Birmingham, she served as the deputy dean of the business school from 2023 to 2024.[5]
She has held several international visiting positions, including a visiting professorship in African business history at the University of Gothenburg (2020–2023)[6] and a visiting role at the University of Cagliari (2019).[7]
Decker served as co-editor of the academic journal Business History from 2013 to 2019 before becoming joint editor-in-chief from 2019 to 2024.[8] She is a member of the editorial boards of several journals, including Journal of Management Studies,[9] Journal of International Business Studies,[10] and Organization Studies.[8]
Awards and honours
Decker received the Henrietta Larson Article Award for best article in Business History Review in 2019 and 2022.[11]
She was elected a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2013,[12] a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences[13] and a Fellow of the British Academy of Management in 2024.[14] She serves as vice dean of its BAM Fellows College.[15]