Prof. Dr. Modestas Gelbūda
Dr. Modestas Gelbūda is a professor at ISM University of Economics and Management, Lithuania. In 2021, ISM professor Modestas Gelbūda was appointed as Secretary General of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania for a five-year term. Modestas Gelbuda completed his PhD studies in International Management at AAU in Denmark. During his PhD studies, he was an invited visiting scholar at Stanford University, USA, and Uppsala University, Sweden.
Prior to returning to his native Lithuania, he carried research at the London Business School. Modestas Gelbuda has published in Journal of International Management (JIM), Management International Review (MIR), Journal of Business Ethics (JBE) and other international journals. He served on the founding editorial board of the European Management Review (EMR), an official research journal of the European Academy of Management (EURAM). He served as ECSB Country VP for Lithuania and was a chair for RENT Conference in 2013.
Modestas Gelbuda carries out research in the fields of International Strategy, International Entrepreneurship and Strategic Innovation. His focus is on conducting research, which meets the highest standards of academic rigour and, at the same time, generates valuable insights for management practice.
To contribute to the evolving management research tradition in Lithuania, Modestas Gelbuda co-founded a NGO-based research center, and organized a series of high quality research conferences on „International Business in Transition Economies”, doctoral seminars and policy roundtables.
Modestas Gelbuda is actively involved in public and NGO activities. He is or was a board member in a nation wide organizations such as Knowledge Economy Forum, National HRM Association, National Society for Gifted and Talented Children. With the Lithuanian Government, he implemented a major „Lean Government“ project, the first of this kind „best practice“ and research project in the CEE & NIS.
Research areas
- International Strategy
- International Entrepreneurship
- Strategic Innovation
Publications
Gelbūda, M., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Venciūtė, D. (2015). Towards the vernonian model: Internationalization process of the pure internet firm from one emerging economy to another. In Proceedings of 4th European business research conference (pp. 1-25). Londonas: Imperial College.
Gelbūda, M., Kazlauskaitė, R., Šarapovas, T., & Abramavičius, Š. (2014). Bounded sociality view of internationalization of firms and its key concepts. In Competitiveness of the CEE Region in the Global Economy: 1st AIB-CEE Chapter conference, October 9-11. Budapest, Hungary.
Gelbūda, M., Kazlauskaitė, R., Židonis, Ž., & Verseckaitė, E. (2019). The self-fulfilling prophecy of implementing a quality management system: A study of two government organizations in a post-socialist European country. In 33rd Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management BAM 2019, September 3-5. Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Kazlauskaitė, R., Abramavičius, Š., Šarapovas, T., Gelbūda, M., & Venciūtė, D. (2015). Network research on internationalisation of firms form the emerging economies: Literature review and propositions. European Journal of Business and Economics, 10(1), 26-30. https://doi.org/10.12955/ejbe.v9i2.548
Kazlauskaitė, R., Autio, E., Gelbūda, M., & Šarapovas, T. (2015). The resource-based view and SME internationalisation: An emerging economy perspective. Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 3(2), 53-64. https://doi.org/10.15678/EBER.2015.030205
Kazlauskaitė, R., Autio, E., Šarapovas, T., Abramavičius, Š., & Gelbūda, M. (2015). The speed and extent of new venture internationalisation in the emerging economy context. Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 3(2), 41-52. https://doi.org/10.15678/EBER.2015.030204
Kazlauskaitė, R., Autio, E., Gelbūda, M., Šarapovas, T., & Venciūtė, D. (2014). Internationalisation process in emerging economy contexts: a meta-synthesis. In Enrepreneurial endeavours: aprofusion of research, policy and practitioner practices: RENT conference XXVIII, November 19-21. Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Židonis, Ž., Gelbūda, M., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Daunienė, E. (2018). Lean implementation in the public service institution in Lithuania: A study of staff responses to experimental modernization of management. In EURAM (European Academy of Management) Conference 2018, June 19-22. Reykjavik, Iceland.
Butkeviciene, J., & Gelbuda, M. (2021). Constructing a unique path of the regulator’s technological platform development: the case of European integration through mindful deviation. In A. Gadeikiene, A. Pundziene & J. Banyte (Eds.), 2021 IEEE International Conference on Technology and Entrepreneurship (ICTE) “Leading digital transformation in business and society”: book of abstracts (p. 75). Kaunas: Technologija
Jones, D. C., Gelbuda, M., & Walker, K. (2014). The effects of innovative work practices on firm and worker outcomes: evidence from Lithuania. In International Perspectives on Participation (Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms, Vol. 15) (pp. 121-150). Emerald Group Publishing .