Dr Konstantinos Poulis

Biography

Dr Poulis is a Senior Lecturer in the Business School and the former Director of our MBA in Shipping & Logistics. He is also the General Manager of Epsilon Hellas, a leading multinational firm that is active in managing the human resource side of the shipping sector. He currently serves as Director at the Executive Committee of the International Maritime Employers' Council (IMEC), the world's only international organization dedicated to maritime industrial relations. In the past, he has also served as the Chairman of IMEC's Recruitment & Training Committee, in which he still sits as an active member.

He has held full-time or visiting 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 evaluator or validator in several universities, 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 Programmes at the University of Essex.

Indicative list of publications

Konstantinos Poulis (2024), 'The consequentiality of absences in social settings: A sensemaking perspective', Sociology, in press [CABS4]

Konstantinos Poulis & Ioannis Christodoulou (2024), 'Justificative conformity in ontologically ring-fenced fields: Problematizing the scholarly nomenclature in qualitative studies', Marketing Theory, in press [CABS3]

Konstantinos Poulis (2024), 'Standardization and adaptation as a co-constituted process: The pursuit of relational fit in international markets', Journal of International Marketing, 32(2): 12-32 [CABS3]

Konstantinos Poulis, Efthimios Poulis & Paul Jackson (2021), 'Agentic misfit: An empirical demonstration of non-matching human agency amid complexity', Organization Studies, 42(10): 1603-1627 [CABS4]

Konstantinos Poulis (2021), 'Complexity as an empirical tendency: Promoting non-measurement as a means to enhanced understanding', European Management Journal, 39(4): 487-496 [CABS2]

Konstantinos Poulis (2020), ‘Punctuated epistemology in international marketing strategy: A Whiteheadian remedy’, Marketing Theory, 20(3): 363-384 [CABS3]

Konstantinos Poulis & Minas Kastanakis (2020), 'On theorizing and methodological fetishism', European Management Journal, 38(5): 676-683 [CABS2]

Konstantinos Poulis & Efthimios Poulis (2018), ‘International business as disciplinary tautology: an ontological perspective’, Academy of Management Perspectives, 32(4): 517-531 [CABS4]

Konstantinos Poulis & Efthimios Poulis (2016), ‘Problematizing fit and survival: Transforming the law of requisite variety through complexity misalignment’, Academy of Management Review, 41(3): 503-527 [CABS4*]

Konstantinos Poulis & Efthimios Poulis (2013), ‘The influence of intra-national cultural heterogeneity on product standardisation and adaptation: a qualitative study’, International Marketing Review, 30(4): 357-383 [CABS3]

Konstantinos Poulis, Efthimios Poulis & Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki (2013), ‘The role of context in case study selection: an international business perspective’, International Business Review, 22(1): 304-314 [CABS3]

Konstantinos Poulis, Mo Yamin & Efthimios Poulis (2012), ‘Domestic firms competing with multinational enterprises: the relevance of resource-accessing alliance formations’, International Business Review, 21(4): 588-601 [CABS3]

Other publications

Konstantinos Poulis (2021), Once Upon a Gaze: On a missing column at the Acropolis of Athens, #38 (March), Epoché

Konstantinos Poulis, Gregory Galanakis, Greg Triantafillou & Efthimios Poulis (2020), Value migration: Digitalization of shipping as a mechanism of industry dethronement, Journal of Shipping & Trade, 5:9

Konstantinos Poulis (2019), Onto-epistemology in business and management research, Blog contribution at harzing.com

Studies

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

Summary of Roles

• General Manager, Epsilon Hellas
• Senior Lecturer and Former Director of the MBA in Shipping & Logistics, Middlesex University
• Director at the Executive Committee, International Maritime Employers' Council (IMEC)
• Former Chairman, IMEC's Recruitment & Training Committee
• 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. BJM), conferences (e.g. AIB), publishing houses (e.g. Oxford University Press), universities (e.g. University of Piraeus) and academies (e.g. BAM)

Teaching

• MKT4811 Advanced International Marketing (MBA Program)
• Supervision of Master's Dissertations