History in Organizations
History in Organizations is a newsletter covering organizational history, business history, and management history research. It is written for an academic audience: historians working in business schools, management scholars with an interest in historical methods, archivists, and anyone engaged in historical research on organisations and their pasts.
The newsletter is run by Stephanie Decker FAcSS FBAM, a professor of strategy at Birmingham Business School (UK). It’s for scholars and people broadly interested in historical approaches to the study of organisations — from corporations and firms to state bodies, NGOs, and the broader institutional landscape.
What you will find here:
Regular posts cover calls for papers and conference announcements in business and management history; new publications and journal issues; research methods and archival practice; AI and digital tools for historical research; academic career development for historians in management schools; and in-depth reading club reviews of recent articles in the field.
A podcast series features interviews and recorded lectures on organizational and business history, including sessions on historical methods, archival research, and documentary sources.
Main contributors:
Stephanie Decker (FAcSS FBAM) is a Professor at a business school and a historian by training. She writes about historical methods in management research, the archival turn in organisation studies, and the use of AI and digital tools in qualitative historical research.
Paula de la Cruz-Fernández is a historian specialising in research communication, archival services, oral history, and academic writing support in business and management history.
Elenia Charalambous contributes to editorial and community work as part of her role at the British Academy of Management Business History Special Interest Group.
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