Dr Karina Pavlisa is a Lecturer in International Business Management at the University of Bristol Business School. Her scholarship is situated at the intersection of management and economic sociology and is informed by an international and comparative perspective. Throughout her academic career, she has combined a strong commitment to higher education with an active programme of research, integrating scholarly inquiry, teaching, curriculum development, and student learning in international business and management.

Dr Pavlisa's research and teaching examine management and international business in relation to the social and economic forces shaping business and society. Her recent work focuses on professional fields, social structures, and processes of social inequality, exploring their implications for professional identities and managerial practice.

Drawing on critical perspectives in management, practice theory, and economic sociology, her current research investigates the relationship between social structures of accumulation processes and individual agency, and considers the implications for organisations, business, and society.