Dr Edita Petrylaite

Assistant Professor

Department: Newcastle Business School

Edita Petrylaite is Assistant Professor in Strategy. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and has been teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Newcastle Business School since 2015. She holds a PhD in Business Management with a specific focus on gender and consumer behaviour and an MSc in Tourism with Hospitality Management from Northumbria University, a BA in Lithuanian Philology and an MA in Literaturology from Klaipeda University. Edita leads a full-time undergraduate Business Management programme preparing students for various business and management roles. Prior to this, she led three top-up undergraduate distance learning programmes – Leadership and Management, Business and Management, and Human Resource Management. Before embarking on an academic career, Edita worked in secondary education, social care and the mass media sectors.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Edita's research interests include entrepreneurial leadership, entrepreneurial learning, entrepreneurial career choices, entrepreneurial marketing and strategic development of small businesses. In her research, Edita also explores the interlinkages between gender and leadership, and gender and consumer behaviour in the entrepreneurial and consumer research contexts. She has published her work in general business, marketing and human resource development journals. She is also interested in CSR and its implementation in business practices and operations. She collaborates nationally and internationally in the area of entrepreneurial talent management as part of the GETM3 project.

Edita presents her research in marketing, innovation and entrepreneurship conferences, namely, Gender, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) and European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE). She has published her work in the Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneruship, Economic and Business Review and International Journal of HRD: Practice, Policy and Research.

Edita is happy to take PhD candidates who have similar research interests.

Key Publications

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Calls for papers: The dark side of CSR: Causes, constraints and consequences of (un)delivering the promise, Petrylaite, E., Kazlauskaitė, R., Johnston, L. 26 Jan 2023
Is self-love a vanity or a coping strategy? An auto-ethnographic reflection on self-care during the Covid-19 pandemic, Petrylaite, E. 30 Jun 2022, Consumer Culture Theory Conference 2022
Situated masculinities and leadership in an all-male entrepreneurial team, Petrylaite, E., Robson, A. 21 Jul 2022, Entrepreneurial Place Leadership, Bingley, Emerald
Entrepreneurial marketing learning styles used by entrepreneurial teams, Petrylaite, E., Rusk, M. 12 Jul 2021, In: Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Men’s consumer identities and their consumption norms in the perceived, conceived and lived spaces of spas, Petrylaite, E., Hart, D. 12 Feb 2021, In: Journal of Marketing Management
The young entrepreneurs’ view on the value of social networking for business progress, Petrylaite, E., Dziewanowska, K. 21 Jun 2021, Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management and Social Collaboration, Gwangju, South Korea, Chonnam National University
Young People's Self-meaning Making Through Entrepreneurship in Poland, Slovenia and the UK: Implications for Human Resource Management in SMEs, Balas Rant, M., Dziewanowska, K., Petrylaite, E., Pearce, A. Aug 2021, In: Economic and Business Review
Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management: Challenges & Opportunities for HRD, Pearce, A., Harney, B., Zupan, N., Stalker, B., Bailey, M., Dziewanowska, K., Petrylaite, E., Balas Rant, M., Skoumpopoulou, D., Kohont, A., Clegg, S., Booth, M., Shin, H., Slavec Gomezel, A., Quan, R., Brueckner, J., Mihelic, K., Mazghouni, M., Ko, I., Doyle, P., Wu, S. 31 Dec 2019, In: International Journal of Human Resource Development Practice, Policy and Research
Personal Career Success in the Eyes of Nascent Entrepreneurs Internationally, Dziewanowska, K., Petrylaite, E., Balas Rant, M., Clegg, S. 31 Dec 2019, In: International Journal of Human Resource Development Practice, Policy and Research
Academic Branding on Social Media: Examining the influence of personal brands on the professor-student relationships, Petrylaite, E., Aleksic, D. 11 Oct 2018, 2018 Annual Conference of the Association for Consumer Research

Professional Activity

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Publication Peer-review: Consumption Markets and Culture (Journal) 2024
Visiting an external academic institution: Chonnam National University 2024
Editorial work: European Business Review (Journal) 2023
Publication Peer-review: Consumption Markets and Culture (Journal) 2023
Publication Peer-review: British Academy of Management 2023 (Event) 2023
Publication Peer-review: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research (Journal) 2023
Publication Peer-review: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research (Journal) 2023
Publication Peer-review: Baltic Journal of Management (Journal) 2022
Visiting an external academic institution: University of Warsaw 2022
Publication Peer-review: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research (Journal) 2022

PGR Supervision

Viktoriia Tretiakova The impact of CSR on the SMES financial performance from the technology sector in Eastern Europe Start Date: 01/03/2022

Further Information

orcid.org/0000-0002-9799-4341

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Qualifications

Business andManagement Studies PhD May 21 2015
Business Studies MSc November 09 2010
Literature MA June 21 2002
Linguistics BA June 23 2000
Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2016

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