Prof. Stephanie Decker

Stephanie Decker is Professor of Strategy at the University of Birmingham and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and the British Academy of Management (FBAM), where she also serves as Co-Vice Chair for Research & Publications (2022-2025).

Over the years, she has held several roles, including editor-in-chief of the journal Business History (2019-2024), one of the Deputy Deans for Birmingham Business School (2023-2024), and Associate Dean Research for Aston Business School (2017-2019).

Her research spans several areas, including historical methods in organizational studies, international strategy, and business development in Africa. She is known for her innovative approaches to theorizing from historical research and developing archival methods to study organizations and also promote interdisciplinary approaches to bridging the gap between social sciences and history.

Her work has been published in prestigious journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Journal of World Business, Business & Society, and Business History as well as a research monograph “Postcolonial Transitions and Global Business History” about the strategic responses by British imperial companies to the independence of Ghana and Nigeria, former British colonies in West Africa. Together with colleagues, she edited and contributed to the “Handbook of Historical Methods for Management”, a key collection of different interdisciplinary approaches in the field.

Prof. Şevket Pamuk

Şevket Pamuk is a retired Professor of Economics and Economic History at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. He graduated from Yale University and obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley (1978). He is a leading economic historian and the author of many books and articles on Ottoman, Middle East, and European economic history, most recently of Uneven Centuries: Economic History of Turkey since 1820, which was published by Princeton University Press in 2018.

Pamuk was Professor and Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies at the London School of Economics from 2008 through 2013. He was the President of the European Historical Economics Society (2003-2005), the President of the Asian Historical Economics Society (2012-2014), Editor of European Economic History Review (2011-2014), a member of the Academia Europea and the Science Academy, Istanbul, and Corresponding Fellow (international member) of the British Academy.