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Dr Konstantinos Poulis

Senior Lecturer

Konstantinos Poulis

  • School Faculty of Business and Law

  • Department Marketing, Enterprise & Tourism

  • Location London

Research activities

Dr Poulis' research activity revolves around:

i) philosophy of science applications (ontology, unknowability, epistemology) in business and management research

ii) sociology of organisations and markets (primarily in relation to multinational corporations and strategy fit)

Publications听from this activity feature in ABS4/3 journals in the following fields:

- management and organization studies (别.驳.,听Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, Organization Studies,听Management Learning)

- social sciences (e.g., Sociology, The British Journal of Sociology,听The Sociological Review)听

- marketing and international business (e.g., Management International Review, Journal of International Marketing, Marketing Theory, International Business Review, International Marketing Review)


Current Teaching

  • Module leader for:

    • MGT4810 Business Strategy (MBA Program)

    MKT4811 Advanced International Marketing (MBA Program)


    Biography

    Dr Poulis is a Senior Lecturer in the Business School, the former Director of our MBA in Shipping & Logistics 补苍诲听迟丑别 General Manager of Epsilon Hellas, a leading multinational firm that offers professional services to the maritime sector.听

    He has held full- or part-time posts at Manchester Business School, Queen Mary, University of London, the University of Essex, the National University of Ireland, and ESCP Europe teaching and supervising across Doctoral, MBA, MSc and UG levels. He has also acted as Track Chair in the European Academy of Management and the British Academy of Management, as an Editorial Board Member and as Director of Postgraduate Programs at the University of Essex.听

    Outside academia, he has served as Director in the Executive Committee and as听Chairman of the Recruitment & Training Committee听at the International Maritime Employers' Council (IMEC), the world's employers' organization dedicated to maritime industrial relations.

    He has studied in the Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece), UMIST (UK), the University of Antwerp (Belgium), and holds a PhD in International Business from Manchester Business School (UK).

    List of publications

    Konstantinos Poulis (2026), 'Sociology and the complexity of what is missing', British Journal of Sociology, 77(2): 332-344 [ABS3]

    Konstantinos Poulis, Christian Linder & Minas N. Kastanakis (2026), 'The sociology of hype: Worthwashing at the heart of capitalism', The Sociological Review, in press [ABS3]

    Konstantinos Poulis & David Collings (2026), 'The roads not taken: Issue selling and post-decisional sensemaking in multinational corporations', Management International Review, in press [ABS3]

    Konstantinos Poulis (2025), 'Unknowability and enabled wayfinding', Management Learning, in press [ABS3]

    Konstantinos Poulis (2025), 'The consequentiality of absences in social settings: A sensemaking perspective', Sociology, 59(1): 107-125 [ABS4]

    Konstantinos Poulis & Ioannis Christodoulou (2024), 'Justificative conformity in ontologically ring-fenced fields: Problematizing the scholarly nomenclature in qualitative studies',听Marketing Theory, 24(4): 685-707 [ABS3]

    Konstantinos Poulis (2024), 'Standardization and adaptation as a co-constituted process: The pursuit of relational fit in international markets',听Journal of International Marketing, 32(2): 12-32 [ABS3]

    Konstantinos Poulis, Efthimios Poulis & Paul Jackson (2021), 'Agentic misfit: An empirical demonstration of non-matching human agency amid complexity',听Organization Studies, 42(10): 1603-1627 [ABS4]

    Konstantinos Poulis (2021), 'Complexity as an empirical tendency: Promoting non-measurement as a means to enhanced understanding',听European Management Journal, 39(4): 487-496 [ABS2]

    Konstantinos Poulis (2020), 鈥楶unctuated epistemology in international marketing strategy: A Whiteheadian remedy鈥�,听Marketing Theory,听20(3): 363-384 [ABS3]

    Konstantinos Poulis & Minas Kastanakis (2020), 'On theorizing and methodological fetishism',听European Management Journal, 38(5): 676-683 [ABS2]

    Konstantinos Poulis & Efthimios Poulis (2018), 鈥業nternational business as disciplinary tautology: an ontological perspective鈥�,听Academy of Management Perspectives, 32(4): 517-531 [ABS4]

    Konstantinos Poulis & Efthimios Poulis (2016), 鈥楶roblematizing fit and survival: Transforming the law of requisite variety through complexity misalignment鈥�,听Academy of Management Review, 41(3): 503-527 [ABS4*]

    Konstantinos Poulis & Efthimios Poulis (2013), 鈥楾he influence of intra-national cultural heterogeneity on product standardisation and adaptation: a qualitative study鈥�,听International Marketing Review, 30(4): 357-383 [ABS3]

    Konstantinos Poulis, Efthimios Poulis & Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki (2013), 鈥楾he role of context in case study selection: an international business perspective鈥�,听International Business Review, 22(1): 304-314 [ABS3]

    Konstantinos Poulis, Efthimios Poulis & Mo Yamin (2013), 'Multicultural markets and acculturation: implications for service firms', Journal of Services Marketing, 27(7): 515-525 [ABS2]

    Konstantinos Poulis, Mo Yamin & Efthimios Poulis (2012), 鈥楧omestic firms competing with multinational enterprises: the relevance of resource-accessing alliance formations鈥�,听International Business Review, 21(4): 588-601 [ABS3]

    Summary of Roles

  • Senior Lecturer & former Director of the MBA in Shipping & Logistics, 探花社区 University
  • General Manager, Epsilon Hellas
  • Former Director at the Executive Committee and Chairman of the Recruitment & Training Committee, International Maritime Employers' Council (IMEC)
  • Chairman, 2019 IMEC Conference
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Shipping & Trade
  • Former Chair, British Academy of Management (Strategy Track)
  • Former Chair, European Academy of Management (DC Track)
  • Reviewer, validator, evaluator for journals (e.g. Journal of Management Studies), academies (e.g. Academy of International Business), publishing houses (e.g. Oxford University Press), universities (e.g. University of Piraeus).
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    Publications