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Inga Minelgaité - Professor
–
School of Social Sciences
Inga Minelgaité
Íslenska
Professor
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Location
Gimli / G-204
Email
inm [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Business Administration
Published Work
Inga Minelgaité - published work
Curriculum Vitae
Inga Minelgaité - Curriculum Vitae
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4026-3222
Research portal – Inga Minelgaité
 
Courses 2024 - 2025
VIÐ277F - Organizational project management and international projects
VIÐ289F - Leadership and future of organizations
AVS001L - MA Thesis
AVS001L - MA Thesis
AVS001L - MA Thesis
Education
2016
,
PhD
,
School of Business, University of Iceland
,
PhD studies
2010
,
Bachelor
,
University of Iceland
,
Icelandic language and culture
2007
,
Master
,
Kaunas University of Technology
,
Master
2004
,
BBA
,
University of Management and Economics
,
Professional Experience
2019 -
,
Board member,
WOW University
2020 -
,
Visiting Associate Professor,
Vilnius University, Lithuania
2020 -
,
Professor,
School of Business, University of Iceland
2018 -
,
Founder and Chair,
Institute for Project Management, University of Iceland
2020 -
,
Honorary Consul of Lithuania in Iceland,
2007 -
,
Consultant and speaker,
2017 -
,
Programme Director, MSc Project Management,
, School of Business, University of Iceland
2019 -
,
Expert work at BI,
(Triple Crown University, Norway
2018 -
,
Visiting lecturer in MBA programs,
University of Iceland, ISM, and Vilnius University
2008 -
2020,
News Correspondent,
Lithuanian National Radio
2018 -
2020,
Associate Professor,
School of Business, University of Iceland
2015 -
2017,
Professional internship, Staff mobility - Erasmus, and teaching at Bachelor, Masters, and Ph.D. level,
Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
2016 -
2017,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
School of Business, University of Iceland
2017 -
2017,
Assistant Professor,
School of Business, University of Iceland
2012 -
2016,
PhD Researcher,
School of Business, University of Iceland
2006 -
2012,
Junior to top-level management, including board member at several companies in wood processing, construction and developing, and consultancy companies,
Lithuania and Iceland
2005 -
2007,
Head of the Project Management Center,
University of Applied Social Sciences (
www.smc.lt
)
2006 -
2006,
Visiting lecturer,
Braganca Polytechnic Institute, Portugal
2005 -
2006,
Lecturer,
University of Applied Social Sciences (
www.smc.lt
)
Published works
2024
DOES GENDER MATTER IN ETHICAL LEADERSHIP PERCEPTIONS? CROSS-NATIONAL EVIDENCE
Economics and Sociology
Sustainability-Oriented Leader, Please! Effects of Industry on Followers’ Preferences
Administrative Sciences
CREATIVITY IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEACHING
Creativity Studies
2023
Projectification in Work-Life Context of Women Top Managers
Governmentality of mega projects in Iceland: "...it’s all about people"
Journal of International Doctoral Research
GENDER, CULTURE AND PREFERRED EXPLICIT LEADER BEHAVIOR
Hire-Me-Not? The Influence of Grades and University Type on Labor Market Success
Pedagogika
2022
A (meta)governance framework for multi-level governance of inter-organizational project networks
Production Planning and Control
A Multilevel Governance Model for Interorganizational Project Networks
Project Management Journal
Empower Me or Not? Influence of Societal Culture
Balancing hierarchy and network: Governance of inter-organizational networks for projects
Follow us not? Gender differences in financial literacy in global leader of gender equality
Journal of Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues
IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER? GENDERED PERCEPTION OF CEOS’ ETHICAL AND UNETHICAL LEADERSHIP
Economics and Sociology
How do Scrum Methodologies Influence the Team's Cultural Values? A Multiple Case Study on Agile Teams in Nonsoftware Industries
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Enjoying the Heat? Co-Creation of Stakeholder Benefits and Sustainable Energy Development within Projects in the Geothermal Sector
Energies
Digital Information Recording Improvement: Services for Disabled
Journal of International Doctoral Research
Learning, but not doing: absence of female stockbrokers in stock trade
Science and process of education
Does female management increase the outreach of microfinance institutions? Improving access to microfinance for the poor
Journal of International Doctoral Research
LONG-TERM INTER-ORGANISATIONAL NETWORKS: GOVERNANCE OF TRUST?
Current Issues of Business and Law
ETHNICITY IN MANAGEMENT STUDIES: TO ASK OR NOT TO ASK, THAT IS THE QUESTION
Management Journal of Contemporary Management Issues
Deviation(s) in Project Life Cycle: Case of Construction Industry
International Journal of Economics, Politics, Humanities & Social Sciences
Þjóðleg fjölbreytni í stjórnun íslenskra hlutafélaga
Tímarit um viðskipti og efnahagsmál
Financial Literacy and Gender Differences
Administrative Sciences
Governance of Interorganizational Project Networks
NACIONALNOST U ISTRAŽIVANJU MENADŽMENTA
Management (Croatia)
Žinantis daugiau nei mama, bet vis tiek nepakankamai
Pedagogika
Let me tell you a (horror) story: Mega projects
2021
Employer Attractiveness in Nordic Europe
Walking the Talk? Sustainability in New Product Development Projects in the Icelandic Seafood Industry
Measuring follower-endorsed effective leadership and sustainability values across cultures.
Journal of international doctoral researh
Employer Attractiveness in Nordic Europe
Who benefits of trade with china? Examining the effects of free trade agreements on trade flow with china using an adjusted gravity model
Journal of International Studies
Iceland, in „Corporate Social Responsibility and Employer Attractiveness. An International Perspective”
Project Benefit Co-Creation in The Icelandic Fisheries Sector with Stakeholder Involvement and Integration Of Sustainable Development
Journal of international doctoral researh
Empower me or not? Influence of societal culture
Cross Cultural and Strategic Management
Consumer engagement behavior perspective in social media
Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research
Visual management implementation in a publica organization.
Science and process of education
A comparison on job design and job satisfaction among professionals in private companies and the public sector
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
Perceptions of Working Conditions and Work-related Stress in Iceland
Management; Journal of Sustainable Business and Management Solutions in Emerging Economies
Efficiency management in catch handling onboard small boats – Standardisation of processes in Icelandic fisheries
Sustainable Futures
2020
Correction to
Contributions to Management Science
Objektyvaus į(Si)vertinimo stoka? mokymosi bendradarbiaujant strategijos taikymas aukštajame moksle
Pedagogika
From LBDQXII to LBDQ50
Journal of Management Development
Three Decades of Lithuanian Education: Self-Identity, Achievements, and Challenges
Contouring sustainability: cultural configurations of Nordic firms
Management; Journal of Sustainable Business and Management Solutions in Emerging Economies
Female advantage? Management and financial performance in microfinance
Business: Theory and Practice
Understanding the Nordic Gender Diversity Paradox
TalTech Journal of European Studies
2019
Editorial to the special issue of the journal
Management (Croatia)
Sustainable leader identity construction: a followercentric approach.
Transformations in Business and Economics
„Karalius nuogas!“
Pedagogika
Darnios lyderystės tapatybės konstravimas
Transformations in Business and Economics
Er grasið alltaf grænna annars staðar? Væntingar og reynsla erlends starfsfólks af starfsmannaleigu og íslensku samfélagi
Tímarit um viðskipti og efnahagsmál
Ethics as usual? Gender differences in work ethic and grades
Management (Croatia)
Economic, environmental and social sustainability perspective's on Iceland's expanded tourism sector.
S etikom kao i obično? Spolne razlike u radnoj etici i ocjenama
Management (Croatia)
Hönnun starfa og starfsánægja í sérfræðistörfum hjúkrunarfræðinga, verkfræðinga og stjórnenda
Tímarit um viðskipti og efnahagsmál
Is the grass always greener on the other side? Foreign work-force expectations and experience of temporary staffing agencies and Icelandic society.
Research in applied business and economics
National and industry culture combined: Preferred leader profile in the retail industry.
Business and Economic Horizons
Job Design and Job Satisfaction of Specialists - Nurses, Managers and Engineers.
Research in applied business and economics
Post-migration labor market
Evidence-based HRM
The Emperor is naked!': Exposing inefficiency of self- and group- assessment in higher education.
Pedagogika
Ethics as usual? Gender differences in work ethic and grades.
Management Journal of Contemporary Management Issues
Lithuanian Temporary Workers in Iceland in Another Economic Boom: Expectations and Experiences
South East European Journal of Economics and Business
2018
Beyond the daily catch
Organizational culture in Iceland
Explicit preferred leader behaviours across cultures
Journal of Management Development
Explicit preferred leader behaviours across cultures: instrument development and validation
Journal of Management Development
Small, but Mighty
Introduction
Navigating leadership in the fishing industry
Leadership in Iceland
Born to enterprise? entrepreneurial intent among icelanders
The untold story of gender quota effects in Iceland
Societal culture in Iceland
Brand Awareness in the Context of Mistrust: The Case Study of an Employment Agency
Sustainability
Preferred leader behaviour in the business sector of Lithuania: Follower diversity perspective
Organizations and Markets in Emerging Economies
Country’s preferred leader behaviour profile: Does cultural homogeneity matter?
Management Journal of Contemporary Management Issues
The Desired Managerial Leader Behavior: Leader Profile in the Education Sector in Iceland Examined From a Follower-Centric Perspective
SAGE Open
Here to stay? The rapid evolution of the temporary staffing market in Iceland
Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration
Nacionalinių kultūrinių dimensijų ir BVP prognostinė galia PISA švietimo lyderystės ir mokyklos autonomijos indeksams
Pedagogika
Here to stay? The rapid evolution of the temporary staffing market in Iceland
Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
A FOLLOWER-CENTRIC PERSPECTIVE ON LEADER EMERGENCE AND ENACTMENT: A QUALITATIVE INQUIRY
“I wish I knew…”: Gender pay gap, stereotype threat and information asymmetry.
Journal of international doctoral researh
Demystifying Leadership in Iceland: An Inquiry into Cultural, Societal, and Entrepreneurial Uniqueness
Demystifying Leadership in Iceland. an Inquiry into Cultural, Societal, and Entrepreneurial Uniqueness
What’s next? from tourism bubble to the future of business leadership in Iceland
The expectations of foreign temporary employees in Iceland
Moving icelandic companies global through visionary leadership
Before and after
Sports leadership and the biggest small nation in the world
Gender and leadership in Iceland
A comedian who changed the leadership script in Reykjavik
The desired managerial leader behaviour: Leader profile in the education sector in Iceland examined from a follower-centric perspective.
SAGE Open
2017
Follower-Centric Leadership and Emotions: an Interdisciplinary Perspective.
Social Research
Etniškumas ir profesiniai skirtumai besikeičiančioje homogeniškoje kultūroje
Pedagogika
Ethnicity and occupational differences in culturally transforming homogenous culture: case of Lithuania.
Pedagogy
Societal culture in Iceland and Lithuania: managerial implications.
SAGE Open
When “we” and “I” don’t value the same: Understanding the Nordic gender diversity paradox.
Application of innovative methods for students‘ leadership development.
Journal of Management
Societal Culture in Iceland and Lithuania: Managerial Implications
SAGE Open
2016
Ideal leader profiles in the Icelandic business sector: Evidence of uniformity of followers’ attitudes.
Tímarit um viðskipti og efnahagsmál
Ideal leader profiles in the Icelandic business sector: Evidence of uniformity of followers’ attitudes
Tímarit um viðskipti og efnahagsmál
Emotion contagion in leadership
Business and Economic Horizons
President Vigdis – the end and the beginning of women’s agenda in Iceland
Ideal leader in the perception of employees from Lithuanian health care institutions
Management of organization
2015
Cross-Cultural Leadership
SAGE Open
What ideal leader behavior is expected by followers in healthcare sector?
2013
Gender, nationality and leadership style: a literature review
International journal of business and management
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