On September 22, Aistė Kukytė—a doctoral student at the Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics, VU Kaunas Faculty (field of Social Sciences, Management discipline (S 003))—successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled "The Impact of Team Vitality on a Member's Intention to Leave the Organization."
About the dissertation
The dissertation was prepared at Vilnius University between 2021 and 2025.
Academic Supervisor – Prof. Dr Edmundas Jasinskas (Vilnius University, Social Sciences, Management – S 003)
Academic Consultant – Assoc. Prof. Dr Virginijus Tamaševičius (Vilnius University, Social Sciences, Management – S 003)
Dissertation defense board:
Assoc. Prof. Dr Ingrida Šarkiūnaitė – Chairman (Vilnius University, Social Sciences, Management – S 003)
Assoc. Prof. Dr Tetiana Gorokhova (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, Social Sciences, Management – S 003);
Prof. Dr Vilija Bitė Fominienė (Lithuanian Sports University, Social Sciences, Management – S 003);
Prof. Dr Asta Mikalauskienė (Vilnius University, Social Sciences, Economics – S 004);
Assoc. Prof. Dr Asta Stankevičienė (Vilnius University, Social Sciences, Management – S 003). The dissertation is available for review at the Vilnius University Library and here.
About the author
Aistė Kukytė completed her Bachelor’s studies in Human Resource Management at Kaunas University of Technology in 2016, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Management. From 2018 to 2020, she studied International Business Management at Vilnius University, obtaining a Master’s degree in Management. In 2025, she completed her doctoral studies in Management at Vilnius University. A. Kukytė is a researcher and lecturer of the Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics at the Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius University.