Joanna Karmowska is a Sociologist, using insights from her host discipline to advance the study of organisations. She gained her PhD in Sociology from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. She has also undertaken executive education at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. Her research interests focus on organizational temporariness, creative organisations, international work and SME internationalization. Her work has been published in journals such as the Journal of World Business, British Journal of Management, International Business Review, Industrial Relations Journal and Urban Studies, and she is a recipient of the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ 2016 Rising Star Engagement Award. She has held visiting academic positions in Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, the UK and the US.