As a historian working at a management school, most of my work is concerned with the connection between the social sciences and history, specifically organization studies and history. I am interested in how to theorise from historical research and in developing archival and historical methods for organization studies. My historical research focuses on the history of organizations, entrepreneurs and the wider political economy in sub-Saharan Africa.

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General 

Stephanie is Professor of History and Strategy at the University of Bristol Management School, and head of academic group for International Business Management and Strategy. She is also a visiting professor in African Business History at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Previously she worked at Aston Business Schoo, Birmingham, from 2010 to 2019, where she was the Associate Dean for Research since 2016. After completing her PhD in history at the University of Liverpool in 2006, she held postdoctoral appointments at the London School of Economics and Harvard Business School, before joining the University of Liverpool Management School in 2007/8. She was a visiting researcher at the University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, in 2019, and at Copenhagen Business School in 2015.

Editorial and professional roles

• Joint editor-in-chief Business History since 2019
• Co-Editor Business History 2013 - 2019
• Editorial Board Organization Studies since 2018
• British Academy of Management council member 2019-2020 

Doctoral supervision

I am currently supervising students four students and have supervised another two to completion on topics such as organizational corruption at Enron, bottom-of-pyramid businesses in Ghana, corporate entrepreneurship in Ghana, ethnography of CSR in an Indian garment factory, and women entrepreneurs in Uganda.

I would be happy to hear from prospective students in the following areas: 

• Historical methods and approaches in strategy and organization studies
• Bottom-of-Pyramid and sustainable business models in sub-Saharan Africa
• Organizational Corruption
• Use of computer-aided qualitative discourse analysis (corpus linguistics) in strategy and organization studies

I currently completing supervision of 2 PhD students at my previous institution:

• Julia Fernando, "Female Entrepreneurship in Uganda"
• Suad Al-Bulushi, "Institutional Constraints facing Entrepreneurs in Oman"

Doctoral students who have completed:

• Patricia Afful-Kwaw, "Corporate Entrepreneurship in Ghana" 
• Divya Jyoti, "Where is the Worker in CSR in the Indian Textile Industry"
• Adam Nix, "Organizational Corruption at Enron"
• George Obeng, "MNCs and Bottom of Pyramid entrepreneurs in Ghana"