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]

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