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Lithuania Between Past and Present: What Ten Years of Data Tell Us about Changing Values

What do Lithuanians value today compared to a decade ago? And why have those values shifted? These are the questions at the heart of a study I recently published in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, co-authored with colleagues at Kaunas University of Technology. Drawing on six waves of the European Social Survey covering 11,199 Lithuanian respondents between 2010 and 2020, we tracked how personal values … Continue reading Lithuania Between Past and Present: What Ten Years of Data Tell Us about Changing Values

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Who’s at the Wheel? CEO Personality and the Drive to Internationalize

What our new research reveals about the CEOs who drive firm internationalization There is a persistent assumption in leadership research that the most effective executives share broadly positive traits: conscientious, agreeable, emotionally stable. But what if some of the most consequential drivers of firm behavior lie precisely where we least like to look? A study recently published in the International Business Review, co-authored with colleagues … Continue reading Who’s at the Wheel? CEO Personality and the Drive to Internationalize

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Diaspora & Cultural Identity

I surveyed over 1,100 Lithuanian migrants worldwide expecting to find cultures drifting apart across generations. What we found was more surprising. The story we usually tell about diaspora goes something like this: a people displaced from their homeland carry its culture with them, transmit it to their children, and over generations it slowly fades as they assimilate into their host countries. The Lithuanian diaspora, consisting … Continue reading Diaspora & Cultural Identity

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Eggstraordinary Art: A New Book Just Released on Egg Decorating

Once a year for at least a week, my kitchen and dining room become a frenzied artist’s workshop full of dyes, the smell of melting beeswax, and a variety of tools. I go on a hunt for white chicken eggs to ethnic shops (and chicken farms!) and buy as many as I can, and spend my days hunched over the delicate eggs, painstakingly fashioning each … Continue reading Eggstraordinary Art: A New Book Just Released on Egg Decorating

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