Stephanie Decker
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 |
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.
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]
References
- ^ a b c "Professor Stephanie Decker FAcSS, FHEA, MA, PG Cert". University of Birmingham.
- ^ "LSEDigest2006 07". LSE Digest.
- ^ "The Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business History, 1995-2023" (PDF). Harvard Business School.
- ^ "Prof. Stephanie Decker". Bristol.ac.uk.
- ^ "Four University of Birmingham academics elected Academy of Social Sciences Fellows". University of Birmingham.
- ^ "Stephanie Decker - Visiting Professor of African Business History from Birmingham Business School, UK". University of Gothenburg. 22 August 2022.
- ^ "OKINAWA E SARDEGNA. Zone blu, turismo sostenibile e ricerca universitaria di eccellenza targata UniCa". University of Cagliari (in Italian).
- ^ a b "Decker, Stephanie". SAGE Publications Inc. 23 January 2026.
- ^ "Journal of Management Studies Editorial Board". Wiley Online Library.
- ^ "Editorial board - Journal of International Business Studies". SpringerLink.
- ^ "The Henrietta Larson Article Award". Cambridge Core.
- ^ "Stephanie Decker". University of Birmingham.
- ^ "Professor Stephanie Decker". Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
- ^ "Current Fellows". British Academy of Management.
- ^ "Fellows". British Academy of Management.