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Professor Kleio Akrivou

Professor of Business Ethics and Moral Development

Director of the Centre for Business Ethics and Sustainability
Research Ethics Director for Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour
Principles for Responsible Management Education Lead for Henley Business School
Senior Fellow, UK HEA

Kleio Akrivou Updated Photo

Specialisms

  • Business Ethics, 
  • Adult and Management Moral Education; Integrity, Moral Maturity and Personal Development, 
  • Corporate and Management Responsibility, 
  • Sustainability and Social Impact, 
  • Research Methods (Qualitative and Mixed Methods), Research Ethics and Integrity

Location

Henley Business School building room 241, Whiteknights campus

Professor Kleio Akrivou is a Professor of Business Ethics and Moral Development at Henley Business School.

Kleio leads the sustainability and business ethics practice and has 20 years of international experience in research, teaching and learning in business ethics and moral development. She has cross disciplinary expertise, spanning moral philosophy, psychology, adult development and education.

Her research is on moral philosophies of personalist virtue ethics and transcendental anthropology, informing sustainable and responsible business and ethical management. She writes about ethics, the future of leadership and management education, suggesting a realist, historically informed renewal of humanistic ethos with genuine sustainability orientation involving people and organisations. She earned her PhD at Case Western Reserve University, USA, and she earned prior degrees in Europe.

Her published works include books and academic articles published in international and specialist leading peer-review journals. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Learning and Education and Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics. Some of her publications are with Business Ethics: A European Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership Quarterly; Frontiers and the Academy of Management Learning and Education.

Kleio has worked internationally across Europe, the USA and south-east Asia. She's a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and a visiting researcher at the University of Navarra's Culture and Society Institute in Spain.

Reference: Luis, E. O., Akrivou, K. , Bermejo-Martins, E., Scalzo, G. and Oron, J. V. (2022) The interprocessual-self theory in support of human neuroscience studies. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. 686928. ISSN 1664-1078 doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.686928
Henley faculty authors:
Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Scalzo, G., Akrivou, K. and González, M. J. F. (2022) A personalist approach to business ethics: new perspectives for virtue ethics and servant leadership. Business Ethics, Environment & Responsibility. 12435. ISSN 2694-6424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12435
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Bolade-Ogunfodun, Y. , Sinnicks, M., Akrivou, K. and Scalzo, G. (2022) Exploring the vulnerability of practice-like activities: an ethnographic perspective. Frontiers in Sociology, 7. 100374. ISSN 2297-7775 doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.1003741
Henley faculty authors:
Dr Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun - Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Scalzo, G., Pinto-Garay, J. and Akrivou, K. (2021) CSR and virtue ethics: the common good of firms, markets, and civil society. In: Maak, T., Pless, N. M., Orlitzky, M. and Sandhu, S. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Corporate Social Responsibility. Routledge, New York. ISBN 9780367713096
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. , Woodrow, C. and Schopohl, L. , (2021) Henley Business School report to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education 2019/20 and 2020/21. Report. Henley Business School (PRME)
Henley faculty authors:
Professor Kleio Akrivou - Dr Chris Woodrow - Dr Lisa Schopohl
Reference: Oron Semper, J. V., Scalzo, G. and Akrivou, K. (2021) Anthropological foundations for innovation in organizations. American Journal of Management, 21 (2). pp. 157-166. ISSN 2165-7998 doi: https://doi.org/10.33423/ajm.v21i2.4233
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. and Fernández González, M. J. (2021) Beyond personalist virtue ethics: transcendental anthropology and its implications for interpersonal communication. Frontiers in Communication: Organisational Psychology, 6. 712501. ISSN 2297-900X doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.712501
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. , Fernandez Gonzalez, M. J., Scalzo, G. and Murcio, R. R. (2022) Management education and interpersonal growth: a humanist transcendental-personalist perspective. In: Fellenz, M. R., Hoidn, S. and Brady, M. (eds.) The Future of Management Education. Routledge Advances in Management Learning and Education. Routledge: Taylor & Francis, London, 286 pages. ISBN 9780367559724
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. and Scalzo, G. (2020) In search of a fitting moral psychology for practical wisdom: the missing link for virtuous management. Business Ethics: A European Review, 29 (S1). pp. 33-44. ISSN 1467-8608 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12295
Henley faculty authors:
Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. , Scalzo, G. and Orón, J. V. (2020) The moral psychology of practical wisdom for business and management. In: Schwartz, B., Bernacchio, C., González-Cantón, C. and Robson, A. (eds.) Handbook of Practical Wisdom in Business and Management. International Handbooks in Business Ethics. Springer. ISBN 9783030001407 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00140-7_15-1
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. , Scalzo, G. and Orón, J. V. (2020) How differing conceptions of integrity and self-integration influence how relations are seen and managed and implications for personal and professional development. Archives of Psychology, 4 (1). ISSN 2573-7902
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Scalzo, G. and Akrivou, K. (2020) Virtues, the common good and business legitimacy. In: Rendtorff, J. D. (ed.) Handbook of Business Legitimacy: Responsibility, Ethics and Society. Springer. ISBN 9783030146214
Henley faculty authors:
Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. , Schopohl, L. and Woodrow, C. , (2019) Henley Business School report to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education 2017/18 and 2018/19. Report. Henley Business School (PRME)
Henley faculty authors:
Professor Kleio Akrivou - Dr Lisa Schopohl - Dr Chris Woodrow
Reference: Orón Semper, J. V., Akrivou, K. and Scalzo, G. (2019) Educational implications that arise from differing models of human development and their repercussions for social innovation. Frontiers in Education, 4. 139. ISSN 2504-284X doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2019.00139
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Orón, J. V., Akrivou, K. and Scalzo, G. (2019) Autonomous self and inter-processual self: two ways of explaining how people “see” and live relationships and the resulting dialogue between science and faith. In: Billingsey, B., Chappell, K. and Reiss, M. J. (eds.) Science and Religion in Education. Springer Verlag, Munich, Munich, pp. 91-101. ISBN 9783030172336 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17234-3_8
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. and Fenton, E. , (2017) Henley Business School report to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education 2015/16 and 2016/17. Report. PRME, Reading. pp62.
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. , Orón, J. V. and Scalzo, G. (2018) The inter-processual self: towards a personalist virtue ethics proposal for human agency. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, pp379. ISBN 9781527508279
Henley faculty authors:
Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. and Orón, J. V. (2016) Two kinds of human integrity: towards the ethics of inter-processual self (IPS). In: Akrivou, K. and Sison, A. J. G. (eds.) Challenges of capitalism for virtue and the common good: inter-disciplinary perspectives. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781784717902
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. , Bolade-Ogunfodun, O. and Adewale, A. A. (2016) Integrated habitus for the common good of the firm – a radically humanistic conception of organizational habitus with systemic human integrity orientation. In: Akrivou, K. and Sison, A. J. G. (eds.) Challenges of capitalism for virtue and the common good: inter-disciplinary perspectives. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781784717902
Henley faculty authors:
Professor Kleio Akrivou - Dr Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun - Dr Adeyinka Adewale
Reference: Akrivou, K. and Sison, A. J. G. (2016) Challenges of capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good: interdisciplinary perspectives. Edward Elgar, London. ISBN 9781784717902
Henley faculty authors:
Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. (2016) Challenges of capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good: an introduction. In: Akrivou, K. and Sison, A. J. G. (eds.) Challenges of capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good: inter-disciplinary perspectives. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781784717902
Henley faculty authors:
Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. (2015) Towards (more) integrity in academia: transcending neo-liberal assumption of research and knowledge creation and the “rules” supressing academic freedom. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 15 (1). pp. 1-6. ISSN 1611-8014 doi: https://doi.org/10.3354/esep00156
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. and Fenton, E. , (2015) Henley Business School Report to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education 2013/14 and 2014/15. Report. PRME
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. and Di San Giorgio, L. T. (2014) A dialogical conception of Habitus: allowing human freedom and restoring the social basis of learning. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. 432. ISSN 1662-5161 doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00432
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. and Bradbury-Huang, H. (2015) Educating integrated catalysts: transforming business schools toward ethics and sustainability. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 14 (2). pp. 222-240. ISSN 1537-260X doi: https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2012.0343
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. (2013) Moral reasoning maturity. In: Kessler, E. H. (ed.) Encyclopedia of management theory. Sage. ISBN 9781412997829
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Mo, S., Wang, Z., Booth, S. A. and Akrivou, K. (2012) Look up, look around: is there anything different about team-level OCB in China? Journal of Management and Organization, 18 (6). pp. 833-844. ISSN 1833-3672 doi: https://doi.org/10.5172/jmo.2012.18.6.818
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Reference: Boyatzis, R.E. and Akrivou, K. (2006) The ideal self as driver of intentional change. Journal of Management Development, 25 (7). pp. 624-642. ISSN 0262-1711 doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/02621710610678454 (special issue 'Intentional change from a complexity perspective')
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. , Boyatzis, R.E. and McLeod, P.L. (2006) The evolving group: towards a prescriptive theory of intentional group development. Journal of Management Development, 25 (7). pp. 689-706. ISSN 0262-1711 doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/02621710610678490 (special issue 'Intentional change from a complexity perspective')
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. (2009) Differentiation and integration in adult development: the role of self-complexity and integrative learning in self-integration. VDM Verlag, Munich, pp172. ISBN 9783639151169
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. and Bradbury-Huang, H. (2011) Executive catalysts: predicting sustainable organizational performance amid complex demands. The Leadership Quarterly, 22 (5). pp. 995-1009. ISSN 1048-9843 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.07.019
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. (2015) Self-ideal congruence and self complexity: the constructs, their positive role in adult ego development and their relationship. In: Antoniou, A. S. (ed.) Current Perspectives in Occupational Health Psychology. Broken Hill Ltd, pp. 263-280. ISBN 9789963716739
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Professor Kleio Akrivou
Reference: Akrivou, K. , Bourantas, D., Mo , S. and Papalois, E. (2011) The sound of silence - a space for morality? The role of solitude for ethical decision making. Journal of Business Ethics, 102 (1). pp. 119-133. ISSN 1573-0697 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-011-0803-3
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