Dr Carolin Decker-Lange
Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Research area(s)

• Organisational development and change
• Interorganisational collaboration
• Entrepreneurship and small business management
• Family business governance
• Entrepreneurship and management education

Research Interests

My research interests are at the intersection of strategy and entrepreneurship. Specifically, I study organisational development and change (for example, divestiture and organisational restructuring), the governance of interorganisational relationships (for example, alliances, franchising and licensing), family business and family office, entrepreneurship and small business management, and entrepreneurship education.

More recently, I have begun to explore the Blue Economy concept and its potential for global strategy research. I am a co-leader of the Blue Economy Research Lab within the CBASS Centre for Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Centres/Entrepreneurship-and-Sustainability/labs/Lab-3-Blue-Economy). 

In my research, I apply various quantitative and qualitative methods as well as primary and secondary data sources.

I am a member of the BAM Peer Review College. 

Project details

• Scholarship seedcorn funding at the Open University, Faculty of Business and Law (internal funding): “The impact of entrepreneurship education on employability: An identity perspective” (2020/2021 first call); cross-university scholarship (of teaching and learning) project; Principal Investigator; January-June 2021 (£675.00).
• Scholarship seedcorn funding at the Open University, Faculty of Business and Law (internal funding): “Student experience and retention across presentations: B327 from a longitudinal perspective” (2019/2020 first call); Principal Investigator; January-June 2020 (£1,240.64).
• Scholarship seedcorn funding at the Open University, Faculty of Business and Law (internal funding): “Analysis of the impact of concurrent study on retention, completion and pass rates of apprenticeship students studying at post-graduate level” (2019/2020 first call); Co-Investigator; October 2019-June 2020 (£2,616.96).
• Scholarship seedcorn funding at the Open University, Faculty of Business and Law (internal funding): “Assessing the impact of novel approaches to teaching enterprise and innovation on student experience and retention: The case of B327” (2018/2019 second call); Principal Investigator; February-June 2019 (£900.00).
• Scholarship seedcorn funding at the Open University, Faculty of Business and Law (internal funding): “Assessing retention issues on two modules students study concurrently: B205 and B207” (2018/2019 first call); Co-Investigator; December 2018-June 2019 (£1,850.00).