Publishing Historical Research in Management Journals 2

Dr Rohin Borpujari

Assistant Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, UCL School of Management

Dr Rohin Borpujari is an Assistant Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the UCL School of Management. His research examines the dynamics of knowledge protection and control during innovation and collaborative work.

In a time of escalating competitive stakes, evolving organizational forms, and rapidly advancing technologies, organizations grapple with balancing secrecy and knowledge sharing, both internally and externally. Rohin's work seeks to explain how actors navigate tensions between secrecy and sharing across diverse settings such as defense R&D, corporate M&A, and the development of AI technologies.

As a qualitative scholar, he leverages historical archives as well as contemporary field data to systematically investigate how actors accomplish secretive knowledge work. Rohin's work draws on theoretical perspectives from organizational theory, knowledge management, and the sociology of secrecy.

Rohin's dissertation research, an in-depth historical study of the Manhattan Project, has been recognized with awards at the annual conferences of AOM and EGOS, and was featured on the Talking About Organizations podcast. He has a BA in Economics from Macalester College. Prior to entering academia, he was a management consultant with PwC where he worked on solving strategic problems for a range of clients, with a focus on the technology and telecommunications sectors.

Professor Stephanie Decker

Co-Vice Chair: Research and Publications

Stephanie Decker, FAcSS, is Professor of Strategy and Deputy Dean at Birmingham Business School. She has contributed substantially to interdisciplinary research that draws on historical knowledge to expand and problematise management knowledge.

This research stream was recognised in the REF 2022 panel report for its contribution to the theoretical sophistication of business history. Her work spans methodological and theoretical issues, as well as empirical research on the role of international business in global contexts that are often underrepresented in business research, such as Africa. She has been joint editor-in-chief of Business History since 2020.

As co-Vice Chair for Research & Publications at the British Academy of Management, she has developed BAM’s Open Access strategy to support the continued excellence of our journals, British Journal of Management and International Journal of Management Reviews, as well as supporting the further development of the BAM research grants scheme.

She co-authored the BAM Guide to Decolonizing the Business School Curriculum with the BAM Vice Chair for Equality, Diversity, Inclusivity & Respect and continues to champion interdisciplinary research in business, management and beyond

Dr Shannon Harris

Lecturer in Strategy, University of St Andrews

Dr Shannon Harris joined the University of St Andrews in 2025 as a Lecturer in Strategy. Prior to this, she was an Assistant Professor in Strategy and Enterprise at Heriot-Watt University. She received her PhD in Management from the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow in 2022.

Shannon has worked at the universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde, and Queen Mary University London. Her research focuses on understanding entrepreneurship as a contextually embedded, socially constructed, and historically situated process. Shannon examines how entrepreneurs operate within and shape broader institutional, spatial, and moral environments. A central theme across this work is the exploration of alternative logics that influence entrepreneurial action - particularly religious, moral, historical, or community-based logics, that challenge or complement market rationality.

Shannon's work explores how these logics generate legitimacy, shape strategy, and influence entrepreneurial behaviour and has been published in Business History.