Her research focuses on corporate restructuring and design, acquisitions and alliances, and innovation through reconfiguration and redeployment of resources and activities. Karim serves as an associate editor for the Strategic Management Journal and as a senior editor for the Journal of Organization Design. Currently, she is the chair for the Competitive Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society. Prior to business academia, Karim worked at Hewlett-Packard as an electrical engineer in R&D.