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, Behaviour and Reputation
Principles for Responsible Management Education Lead for Henley Business School
Senior Fellow, UK HEA

Specialisms

Personalist Virtue Ethics,
Ethics and Morality in Business and Management,
Philosophical and Anthropological Foundations of Ethics,
Moral Education, Ethics and Personalist Moral Psychology,
Ethical Management

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. She has held this role since 2008. She is also the Director of the Centre for Business Ethics and Sustainability.

Her research is on personalist virtue ethics and transcendental anthropology applied in management, along with business ethics and moral education. Her work informs management decision making and moral, sustainability and ethics education, more broadly relating to problems associated with ethics and economics in business, education and in society.

Following work in economics and management and earning a PhD in moral human development, Kleio studied classical moral philosophy. Her PhD and earlier degrees were in Cleveland, USA, Strasbourg, France, and Athens, Greece. Kleio is a visiting scholar at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, and its Institute for Culture and Society.

Kleio is a member of the European Business Ethics Network, the Society for Business Ethics, the Association of Moral Education, the Academy of Management and the Academy of Management Learning and Education Board. Kleio has published works in leading international and peer-review journals, such as Business Ethics: a European Review, the Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership Quarterly, the Humanistic Management Journal, Cogent Education, Frontiers and the Academy of Management Learning and Education. She also published edited volumes with E. Elgar and Springer. She is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

Ethics in leadership

Reference: Huang, K. and Akrivou, K. (2025) Ethics in leadership. In: Laker, B. , Soga, L. and Bolade-Ogunfodun, Y. (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Leadership. Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management Series. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 81-83. ISBN 9781035307067 doi: 10.4337/9781035307074.00040

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Making wiser decisions in organizations: insights from inter-processual self theory and transcendental anthropology

Reference: Akrivou, K. , Martínez, M., Luis, E. O., Scalzo, G. and Aoiz, M. (2025) Making wiser decisions in organizations: insights from inter-processual self theory and transcendental anthropology. Humanistic Management Journal. ISSN 2366-6048 doi: 10.1007/s41463-025-00208-z

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Integrating ‘common good’ authenticity for sustainable human resource management (HRM) reporting

Reference: Järlström, M., Saru, E., Viitasaari, M. and Akrivou, K. (2024) Integrating ‘common good’ authenticity for sustainable human resource management (HRM) reporting. German Journal of Human Resource Management, 38 (2). pp. 159-182. ISSN 1862-0000 doi: 10.1177/23970022241229035

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

The ‘person of moral growth’: a model of moral development based on personalist virtue ethics

Reference: Fernández González, M. J. and Akrivou, K. (2024) The ‘person of moral growth’: a model of moral development based on personalist virtue ethics. Cogent Education, 11 (1). 2418785. ISSN 2331-186X doi: 10.1080/2331186X.2024.2418785

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Henley Business School report to the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Management Education 2021/22 and 2022/23

Reference: Schopohl, L. , Morais, F. and Akrivou, K. , (2023) Henley Business School report to the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Management Education 2021/22 and 2022/23. Report. Henley Business School

Henley faculty authors:

Dr Lisa Schopohl - Dr Filipe Morais - Professor Kleio Akrivou

A personalist approach to business ethics: new perspectives for virtue ethics and servant leadership

Reference: Scalzo, G., Akrivou, K. and González, M. J. F. (2023) A personalist approach to business ethics: new perspectives for virtue ethics and servant leadership. Business Ethics, Environment & Responsibility, 32 (52). pp. 145-158. ISSN 2694-6424 doi: 10.1111/beer.12435

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

The role of empathy in shared intentionality: contributions from Inter-Processual Self theory

Reference: Luis, E. O., Martínez, M., Akrivou, K. , Scalzo, G., Aoiz, M. and Orón Semper, J. V. (2023) The role of empathy in shared intentionality: contributions from Inter-Processual Self theory. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. 1079950. ISSN 1664-1078 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1079950

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Editorial: Personalism and moral psychology: re-humanizing economies and organizations

Reference: Akrivou, K. , Bernacchio, C., Melé, D. and Scalzo, G. (2023) Editorial: Personalism and moral psychology: re-humanizing economies and organizations. Frontiers in Communication: Organisational Psychology, 8. ISSN 2297-900X doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2023.1182356

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Management education and interpersonal growth: a humanist transcendental-personalist perspective

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

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

The interprocessual-self theory in support of human neuroscience studies

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: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.686928

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Exploring the vulnerability of practice-like activities: an ethnographic perspective

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: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.1003741

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

CSR and virtue ethics: the common good of firms, markets, and civil society.

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

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Henley Business School report to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education 2019/20 and 2020/21

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 Lisa Schopohl

Anthropological foundations for innovation in organizations

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: 10.33423/ajm.v21i2.4233

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Beyond personalist virtue ethics: transcendental anthropology and its implications for interpersonal communication

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: 10.3389/fcomm.2021.712501

Henley faculty authors:

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Virtues, the common good and business legitimacy

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

In search of a fitting moral psychology for practical wisdom: the missing link for virtuous management

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: 10.1111/beer.12295

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

The moral psychology of practical wisdom for business and management

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: 10.1007/978-3-030-00140-7_15-1

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

How differing conceptions of integrity and self-integration influence how relations are seen and managed and implications for personal and professional development

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

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Henley Business School report to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education 2017/18 and 2018/19

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

Autonomous self and inter-processual self: two ways of explaining how people “see” and live relationships and the resulting dialogue between science and faith

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: 10.1007/978-3-030-17234-3_8

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Educational implications that arise from differing models of human development and their repercussions for social innovation

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: 10.3389/feduc.2019.00139

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

The inter-processual self: towards a personalist virtue ethics proposal for human agency

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

Henley Business School report to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education 2015/16 and 2016/17

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.

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Two kinds of human integrity: towards the ethics of inter-processual self (IPS)

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

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Integrated habitus for the common good of the firm – a radically humanistic conception of organizational habitus with systemic human integrity orientation

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

Challenges of capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good: interdisciplinary perspectives

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

Challenges of capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good: an introduction

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

Towards (more) integrity in academia: transcending neo-liberal assumption of research and knowledge creation and the “rules” supressing academic freedom

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: 10.3354/esep00156

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Educating integrated catalysts: transforming business schools toward ethics and sustainability

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: 10.5465/amle.2012.0343

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Henley Business School Report to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education 2013/14 and 2014/15

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

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Self-ideal congruence and self complexity: the constructs, their positive role in adult ego development and their relationship

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

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

A dialogical conception of Habitus: allowing human freedom and restoring the social basis of learning

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: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00432

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Moral reasoning maturity

Reference: Akrivou, K. (2013) Moral reasoning maturity. In: Kessler, E. H. (ed.) Encyclopedia of management theory. Sage. ISBN 9781412997829

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Look up, look around: is there anything different about team-level OCB in China?

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: 10.5172/jmo.2012.18.6.818

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Executive catalysts: predicting sustainable organizational performance amid complex demands

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: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.07.019

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

The sound of silence - a space for morality? The role of solitude for ethical decision making

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: 10.1007/s10551-011-0803-3

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Differentiation and integration in adult development: the role of self-complexity and integrative learning in self-integration

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

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

The ideal self as driver of intentional change

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: 10.1108/02621710610678454 (special issue 'Intentional change from a complexity perspective')

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

The evolving group: towards a prescriptive theory of intentional group development

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: 10.1108/02621710610678490 (special issue 'Intentional change from a complexity perspective')

Henley faculty authors:

Professor Kleio Akrivou

Futures of Business Education in 2055

Sharing Information on Progress Report on the United Nations’ Principles of Responsible Management Education, 2023

Sustainable Development Goal-Related CBES Workshops

Rethinking Wellbeing: Evaluating the Neoliberalisation of Wellbeing in the Workplace Using Artworks as a Critical Lens

Sharing Information on Progress Report on the United Nations’ Principles of Responsible Management Education, 2021

Sharing Information on Progress Report on the United Nations’ Principles of Responsible Management Education, 2015, 2017 and 2019

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Specialisms

Personalist Virtue Ethics
Ethics and Morality in Business and Management
Philosophical and Anthropological Foundations of Ethics
Moral Education, Ethics and Personalist Moral Psychology
Ethical Management

Location

Henley Business School building room 241, Whiteknights campus

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Professor of Business Ethics and Moral Development

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Ethics in leadership

Henley faculty authors:

Making wiser decisions in organizations: insights from inter-processual self theory and transcendental anthropology

Henley faculty authors:

Integrating ‘common good’ authenticity for sustainable human resource management (HRM) reporting

Henley faculty authors:

The ‘person of moral growth’: a model of moral development based on personalist virtue ethics

Henley faculty authors:

Henley Business School report to the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Management Education 2021/22 and 2022/23

Henley faculty authors:

A personalist approach to business ethics: new perspectives for virtue ethics and servant leadership

Henley faculty authors:

The role of empathy in shared intentionality: contributions from Inter-Processual Self theory

Henley faculty authors:

Editorial: Personalism and moral psychology: re-humanizing economies and organizations

Henley faculty authors:

Management education and interpersonal growth: a humanist transcendental-personalist perspective

Henley faculty authors:

The interprocessual-self theory in support of human neuroscience studies

Henley faculty authors:

Exploring the vulnerability of practice-like activities: an ethnographic perspective

Henley faculty authors:

CSR and virtue ethics: the common good of firms, markets, and civil society.

Henley faculty authors:

Henley Business School report to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education 2019/20 and 2020/21

Henley faculty authors:

Anthropological foundations for innovation in organizations

Henley faculty authors:

Beyond personalist virtue ethics: transcendental anthropology and its implications for interpersonal communication

Henley faculty authors:

Virtues, the common good and business legitimacy

Henley faculty authors:

In search of a fitting moral psychology for practical wisdom: the missing link for virtuous management

Henley faculty authors:

The moral psychology of practical wisdom for business and management

Henley faculty authors:

How differing conceptions of integrity and self-integration influence how relations are seen and managed and implications for personal and professional development

Henley faculty authors:

Henley Business School report to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education 2017/18 and 2018/19

Henley faculty authors:

Autonomous self and inter-processual self: two ways of explaining how people “see” and live relationships and the resulting dialogue between science and faith

Henley faculty authors:

Educational implications that arise from differing models of human development and their repercussions for social innovation

Henley faculty authors:

The inter-processual self: towards a personalist virtue ethics proposal for human agency

Henley faculty authors:

Henley Business School report to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education 2015/16 and 2016/17

Henley faculty authors:

Two kinds of human integrity: towards the ethics of inter-processual self (IPS)

Henley faculty authors:

Integrated habitus for the common good of the firm – a radically humanistic conception of organizational habitus with systemic human integrity orientation

Henley faculty authors:

Challenges of capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good: interdisciplinary perspectives

Henley faculty authors:

Challenges of capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good: an introduction

Henley faculty authors:

Towards (more) integrity in academia: transcending neo-liberal assumption of research and knowledge creation and the “rules” supressing academic freedom

Henley faculty authors:

Educating integrated catalysts: transforming business schools toward ethics and sustainability

Henley faculty authors:

Henley Business School Report to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education 2013/14 and 2014/15

Henley faculty authors:

Self-ideal congruence and self complexity: the constructs, their positive role in adult ego development and their relationship

Henley faculty authors:

A dialogical conception of Habitus: allowing human freedom and restoring the social basis of learning

Henley faculty authors:

Moral reasoning maturity

Henley faculty authors:

Look up, look around: is there anything different about team-level OCB in China?

Henley faculty authors:

Executive catalysts: predicting sustainable organizational performance amid complex demands

Henley faculty authors:

The sound of silence - a space for morality? The role of solitude for ethical decision making

Henley faculty authors:

Differentiation and integration in adult development: the role of self-complexity and integrative learning in self-integration