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Dr Olena Khlystova

Lecturer in Management and Organisational Behaviour

Director of Academic Tutoring for Undergraduate (Part One) Business and Management Programmes
Fellow, UK HEA

Olena Khlystova New Photo

Specialisms

  • Creative Industries, 
  • Organisational Resilience, 
  • Regional Resilience, 
  • Organisational Behaviour, 
  • Management

Location

Henley Business School building room 226, Whiteknights campus

Dr Olena Khlystova is a Lecturer in Management and Organisational Behaviour at Henley Business School. She teaches management, leadership and professional development across undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes and convenes modules on professional excellence, leadership and research development.

Her research in the field of organisational behaviour studies how individuals and organisations react to disruption, uncertainty and prolonged adversity. Research interests include organisational resilience, crisis leadership, sensemaking, precarious work and the organisation of creative work. She explores how organisational structures, leadership practices and conditions of work shape people’s capacity to adapt, exercise agency and sustain their work during periods of crisis and change, plus the dark side and limits of resilience.

Her current research covers how technological disruption, including generative artificial intelligence, reshapes work practices, professional roles and adaptive capabilities among creative freelancers and microbusinesses. She primarily uses qualitative methods, including interviews, comparative qualitative analysis, systematic reviews and integrative literature reviews.

Olena engages in interdisciplinary and international research and impact. She leads and contributes to knowledge-exchange projects in the UK and the Euro-Asian region on creative industries, resilience, leadership and regional development, working with creative practitioners, businesses, policymakers and academic partners.

Having earned a PhD in Management at Henley Business School, Olena is a Centre for Euro-Asian Studies member and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She supervises doctoral researchers and contributes to academic tutoring and curriculum development.

Reference: Degbey, W. Y. and KHLYSTOVA, O. (2025) Trust in leadership. In: Laker, B. , Soga, L. R. and Bolade-Ogunfodun, Y. (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Leadership. Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management series. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 314-316. ISBN 9781035307067
Henley faculty authors:
Dr Olena Khlystova
Reference: KHLYSTOVA, O. (2025) Resilient leadership. In: Laker, B. , Soga, L. R. and Bolade-Ogunfodun, Y. (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Leadership. Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management series. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 279-280. ISBN 9781035307067
Henley faculty authors:
Dr Olena Khlystova
Reference: Khlystova, O. and Kalyuzhnova, Y. (2025) Exploring knowledge spillovers: innovation strategies in resource-rich countries. Journal of Technology Transfer. ISSN 1573-7047 doi: 10.1007/s10961-025-10221-x
Henley faculty authors:
Dr Olena Khlystova - Professor Yelena Kalyuzhnova
Reference: Ospanov, M., Kalyuzhnova, Y. , Khlystova, O. and Crowley-Vigneau, A. (2025) The impact of armed conflicts and forced migration on labour markets: systematic literature review and future research agenda. Defence and Peace Economics. ISSN 1024-2694 doi: 10.1080/10242694.2025.2513072
Henley faculty authors:
Professor Yelena Kalyuzhnova - Dr Olena Khlystova
Reference: Audretsch, D. B., Belitski, M. , Fiedler, A. and KHLYSTOVA, O. (2025) Five research themes of knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: an analysis of 30 years of research. International Journal of Management Reviews. ISSN 1468-2370 doi: 10.1111/ijmr.70000
Henley faculty authors:
Professor Maksim Belitski - Dr Olena Khlystova
Reference: Khlystova, O. and Kalyuzhnova, Y. (2023) The impact of the creative industries and digitalization on regional resilience and productive entrepreneurship. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 48 (5). pp. 1654-1695. ISSN 0892-9912 doi: 10.1007/s10961-023-10020-2
Henley faculty authors:
Dr Olena Khlystova - Professor Yelena Kalyuzhnova
Reference: Khlystova, O. , Kalyuzhnova, Y. and Belitski, M. (2022) The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the creative industries: a literature review and future research agenda. Journal of Business Research, 139. pp. 1192-1210. ISSN 0148-2963 doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.09.062
Henley faculty authors:
Dr Olena Khlystova - Professor Yelena Kalyuzhnova - Professor Maksim Belitski
Reference: Khlystova, O. , Kalyuzhnova, Y. and Belitski, M. (2022) Towards the regional aspects of institutional trust and entrepreneurial ecosystems. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research. ISSN 1355-2554 doi: 10.1108/IJEBR-02-2022-0108
Henley faculty authors:
Dr Olena Khlystova - Professor Yelena Kalyuzhnova - Professor Maksim Belitski
Reference: Belitski, M. , Cherkas, N. and Khlystova, O. (2022) Entrepreneurial ecosystems in conflict regions: evidence from Ukraine. Annals of Regional Sciences. ISSN 1432-0592 doi: 10.1007/s00168-022-01203-0
Henley faculty authors:
Professor Maksim Belitski - Dr Olena Khlystova
Reference: Kalyuzhnova, Y. , Khlystova, O. and Imayo, A. (2022) Toward sustainable recovery and inclusive growth of the creative economy in a post-COVID-19 world. In: Sonobe, T., Buchoud, N. J.A., Tiong, T. G., Baek, S., Hendriyetty, N. S. and Sioson, E. P. (eds.) Creative Economy 2030: Imagining and Delivering a Robust, Creative, Inclusive, and Sustainable Recovery. Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, pp. 209-221. ISBN 9784899742579
Henley faculty authors:
Professor Yelena Kalyuzhnova - Dr Olena Khlystova

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