Elena Antonacopoulou is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour at University of Liverpool Management School. She previously held faculty positions at Warwick Business School, Manchester Business School and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). She earned her PhD (1996) from the University of Warwick and she holds a Masters Degree in Management from the University of Kent. She also holds professional qualifications such the Diploma of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (1989) and the Diploma of the Association of Computer Professionals in Computer Systems Analysis and Design (1988).

Her principal research interests include change and learning processes in organizations. Within that she has concentrated on individuals' receptivity to change and the role of learning and knowing practices, in conjunction with Human Resource Development interventions in organizations. She is the Founder and Director of GNOSIS which is a Centre of Excellence in management research bringing together an international pool of academics, practitioners across a range of sectors and specializations and policy makers who work collaboratively to enhance knowledge about how organizations and their management can improve performance and well being.

Elena Antonacopoulou is currently one of 17 AIM Fellows as part of the Advanced Institute for Management Research funded by the ESRC/EPSRC. She is also currently joint Editor-in-chief of the international journal Management Learning and serves on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal. She serves for a second term of office following her re-election on the Board of the European Group in Organization Studies (EGOS) and has recently been elected on the Council of the British Academy of Management. She is an active member of the Academy of Management in the USA and has served as member of the Board of Governors (2000-2003), Chair of the Academy's Ethics Committee (2001-2003) and held several Executive positions in the Management Education and Development (MED) Division leading to her role as Division Chair in 2002-2003.

AIM Projects

• Learning as Dynamic Capability for Competitiveness: Facilitating Learning Across and Between Sectors

• Organisational Learning and Dynamic Capabilities

For further information or to download the outcomes of the research conducted then please visit the ESRC website.

AIM Publications

• WP No. 005- Introducing Reflexive Critique in the Business Curriculum - Reflections on the Lessons Learned

• WP No. 014- Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Learning: Socio-Political Tensions in Organizational Renewal

• WP No. 030- Strategizing as Practising: Strategic Learning as a Source of Connection

• WP No. 032- On the Virtues of Practising Scholarship: A Tribute to Chris Argyris a 'Timeless Learner'

• WP No. 033- Learning-in-Practise: The Social Complexity of Learning in Working Life

Related Links

• University of Liverpool Management School

• University of Liverpool Profile Page

Editorial Positions

• Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal

For additional information relating to Professor Elena Antonacopoulou please contact her at E.Antonacopoulou@liverpool.ac.uk

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