Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/05/2025 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Location
Leeds University Business School
Audience:
NARTI In-Person Training & Development
Using Historical Methods in Management Research
With Professor Stephanie Decker
Friday 2nd May 2025 (09.30-16.00)
Leeds University Business School
We are pleased to welcome Professor Stephanie Decker who will deliver a workshop on behalf of the network on ‘Using Historical Approaches in Management Research’.
Summary:
The workshop Introduces the different ways in which historical approaches are being employed to advance understanding and theory in management and business research. It expands on the different approaches to the past in management research from the perspective of history as an empirical setting, history as an explanation for legacy effects in the present, history as a cognitive resource, and historiography as a theoretical resource. The workshop will provide methodological toolkits on aspects of historical approaches that are not commonly part of social science research training, such as archival research (including digital), historical triangulation, critical source interpretation and historical imagination, and consider different avenue for publishing historical work in management and business history.
Schedule:
| 09.00-09.30 | Arrival, refreshments and registration |
| 09.30-10.00 | Welcome and introduction |
| 10.00-11.00 | Why history and management? And what do we mean by history? |
| 11.00-11.10 | Comfort break |
| 11.10-12.10 | Varieties of organisational history (group work) |
| 12.10-13.10 | Lunch break |
| 13.10-14.10 | Historical methods toolkits (group work) |
| 14.10-14.30 | Tea/coffee break |
| 14.30-15.30 | Publishing historical research in management and business history journals |
| 15.30-16.00 | Group discussion and close |
Biography:
Stephanie is a 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 served 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 best known for her innovative approaches to theorizing from historical research and developing archival methods to study organizations. She has also promoted 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.
If you are a doctoral or early-career researcher and have an interest in historical methods and you are able to commit to attending the full day, in-person, at Leeds, please register using the link at the top of this email. Places are limited so please only register your interest if you are fully committed to participating.