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”’Stephanie Decker”’ {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FAcSS|FBAM|FHEA}} is a German-British management and business historian. She is Professor of Strategy at [[Birmingham Business School (University of Birmingham)|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”’ {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FAcSS|FBAM|FHEA}} is a German-British management and business historian. She is Professor of Strategy at [[Birmingham Business School (University of Birmingham)|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]].<ref name=brim />

Following her PhD, she held an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the [[London School of Economics]] (2006–2007)<ref>{{cite web |title=LSEDigest2006 07 |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/347430923/LSEDigest2006-07#content=query:Decker,pageNum:16,indexOnPage:0,bestMatch:false|publisher=LSE Digest}}</ref> and was a Harvard-Newcomen Fellow in Business History at [[Harvard Business School]] (2007–2008).<ref>{{cite web |title=The Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business History, 1995-2023 |url=https://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/Documents/BHI%20Fellowship%20Recipients.pdf |publisher=Harvard Business School}}</ref>

== 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.<ref name=brim />

In 2020, she was appointed Professor of Strategy and History at the [[University of Bristol]] School of Management.<ref>{{cite web |title=Prof. Stephanie Decker |url=https://dotcomarchive.bristol.ac.uk/about/ |website=Bristol.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> She returned to the West Midlands in 2022 to take up a Chair in Strategy at the University of Birmingham.<ref name=brim>{{cite web |title=Professor Stephanie Decker FAcSS, FHEA, MA, PG Cert |url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/business/decker-stephanie |publisher=University of Birmingham}}</ref> During her tenure at Birmingham, she served as the Deputy Dean of the Business School from 2023 to 2024.<ref>{{cite web |title=Four University of Birmingham academics elected Academy of Social Sciences Fellows |url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/four-university-of-birmingham-academics-elected-academy-of-social-sciences-fellows |publisher=University of Birmingham}}</ref>

She has held several international visiting positions, including a Visiting Professorship in African Business History at the [[University of Gothenburg]] (2020–2023)<ref>{{cite web |title=Stephanie Decker – Visiting Professor of African Business History from Birmingham Business School, UK |url=https://www.gu.se/en/school-business-economics-law/our-research/visiting-professor-programme/visiting-professor-programme-3-2019-2021/stephanie-decker |website=University of Gothenburg |language=en |date=22 August 2022}}</ref> and a visiting role at the [[University of Cagliari]] (2019).<ref>{{cite web |title=OKINAWA E SARDEGNA. Zone blu, turismo sostenibile e ricerca universitaria di eccellenza targata UniCa |url=https://web.unica.it/unica/en/news_notizie_s1.page?contentId=NTZ202694 |website=University of Cagliari |language=it}}</ref>

Decker served as joint editor-in-chief of the academic journal ”[[Business History (journal)|Business History]]” from 2019 to 2024.<ref name=sage>{{cite web |title=Decker, Stephanie |url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/author/stephanie-decker-1 |website=SAGE Publications Inc |language=en |date=23 January 2026}}</ref> She is a member of the editorial boards of several journals, including ”[[Journal of Management Studies]]”,<ref>{{cite web |title=Journal of Management Studies Editorial Board |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14676486/homepage/editorialboard.html |website=Wiley Online Library |language=en}}</ref> ”[[Journal of International Business Studies]]”,<ref>{{cite web |title=Editorial board – Journal of International Business Studies |url=https://link.springer.com/journal/41267/editorial-board |website=SpringerLink |language=en}}</ref> and ”[[Organization Studies]]”.<ref name=sage />

== Awards and honours ==

== Awards and honours ==


Latest revision as of 08:26, 8 February 2026

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

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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]

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 joint editor-in-chief of the academic journal Business History 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]

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]

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