Sustainable Careers Hub

The Sustainable Careers Hub is a research community within the ISM Resilient Futures Institute. It explores one central question: how can people build productive, healthy, and meaningful careers across longer and changing working lives?

People are living and working longer, while technology, demographic change, and new forms of work keep reshaping careers. The hub studies how individuals, organizations, and policy makers can make careers sustainable for everyone, from labor-market entry to retirement and beyond.

• produce internationally impactful research on ageing, careers, and longer working lives;
• develop joint national and European grant proposals with partners in Lithuania and abroad;
• support doctoral and early-career researchers working on careers and the future of work;
• share research-based insights with organizations, policy makers, and the public.

• Careers in a changing world of work: We investigate how digital transformation, hybrid work, AI, and new forms of organizing reshape career paths, workplace inclusion, and opportunities for people to fulfill their potential at different career stages.
• Sustainable careers for diverse life paths: We study how people navigate careers alongside motherhood, fatherhood, disability, caregiving responsibilities, and other life circumstances, and how organizations can better support inclusive and sustainable career development.
• Ageing and longer working lives: We study how people navigate late-career employment, retirement transitions, and longer working lives in ways that are meaningful, healthy, and sustainable.
• Intergenerational relationships at work: We explore intergenerational contact, positive workplace relationships across lifespan, workplace friendships, knowledge sharing, and how organizations can build stronger connections between people of different ages.

Bernadeta Goštautaitė is Professor of Management at ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania. Her research focuses directly on aging at work, age-diverse collaboration, career resilience, and the organizational and societal conditions that support successful aging, making her expertise closely aligned with the central themes of this volume. Currently, she is particularly interested in aging and technology at work, as well as cross-country differences in successful aging at work. Her work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Discoveries, Personnel Psychology, and Human Resource Management Journal, and has received several scholarly awards, including a Distinguished Winner of the Responsible Research in Management Award and the Best Paper Award from Academy of Management Discoveries. She is also a founding Associate Editor for Academy of Management Inside Organizations. In recent years, she has been actively involved in LeverAge, a large-scale EU-funded COST Action network on aging and the future of work, where she served as Working Group Leader for Ageing and Technology and contributed to advancing cross-country collaboration and international research on aging, age diversity, and work. She also organized the 7th Age in the Workplace Meeting in Vilnius, further strengthening her engagement with the international scholarly community on aging and work. She received her diploma in Psychology from the University of Mannheim in Germany and her Ph.D. in Management from ISM. She has been a visiting researcher and adjunct lecturer at the University of Florida, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa in Portugal, Curtin University in Australia, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria, and other institutions.

Prof. Dr. Bernadeta Goštautaitė – Professor of Management, Head of the ISM Resilient Futures Institute – bernadeta.gostautaite@ism.lt