Stephanie Decker is Professor of History and Strategy at the University of Bristol Management School and visiting Professor in African Business History at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her work lies at the intersection of organization studies and history, where she has published with co-authors on how historical research can be integrated into the study of management and organizations. Her key contributions in this area are Decker (2013) ‘The silence of the archives’, Management & Organizational History; Rowlinson, Hassard & Decker (2014) ‘Research strategies in organizational history’, Academy of Management Review; and Decker, Rowlinson & Hassard (forthcoming) ‘Rethinking history and memory: the case for historiographical reflexivity’, Human Relations. Microhistory is an approach that holds a lot of potential for management and organization studies as it offers a methodology of archival research and source analysis that balances the historically unique with wider conceptual insights that speak to broader theoretical issues. The latter are important in social science research, which often fails to appreciate the historically unique and contextually rich research that microhistory has to offer. |
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Anna Maria Cimitile
Anna Maria Cimitile is a Professor of English literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. Her fields of research range from Shakespeare, early modern English literature and culture to contemporary anglophone literature, cinema and the visual arts. Interested in the history of ideas, material culture and microhistory, more recently she has reflected on the possibility of researching early modern book history with a microhistorical approach.