Current Publications
Journal Articles
Leišytė, L., Deem, R., & Načinović Braje, I. (Eds.). (in press). Diversity and change agents in higher education [Thematic issue]. Social Inclusion, 14.
Sporn, B., Fumasoli, T., Krempkow, R., & Leišytė, L. (Eds.). (2025). New models of the university – innovative structures, adaptive responses, and strategic behavior [Thematic issue]. Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, 20(4). https://doi.org/10.21240/zfhe/20-4
Sporn, B., Fumasoli, T., Krempkow, R., & Leišytė, L. (2025). New models of the university – innovative structures, adaptive responses, and strategic behavior. Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, 20(4), 9–21. https://doi.org/10.21240/zfhe/20-4/00
Westphal, A. (2025). Digitalization on HR management processes at universities – a systematic literature review. Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, 20(4), 105–132. https://doi.org/10.21240/zfhe/20-4/05
Leišytė, L., Načinović Braje, I., Almog, S., Baysan, S., Carvalho, T., Daunoraitė, D., Diogo, S., Papaioannou, P., Farmaki, A., Feldman, S., Külcür, R., Matijošytė, I., Pralgauskaitė, S., Rangelova, V., & Šatkovskienė, D. (2025). Early career researchers as stakeholders in university decision-making in Europe: Comparative perspectives. Social Inclusion, 14, Article 9683. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.9683
Mergner, J., Pekşen, S., & Leišytė, L. (2025). Intersectionality at German universities: Teaching staff as change agents with higher education didactic workshops. Social Inclusion, 14, Article 9829. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.9829
Books
Leišytė, L., Marquina, M., & Jones, G. A. (Eds.). (2025). University governance, management and the academic profession: Transformations and challenges. Springer. Contents and further information
Leišytė, L., Dee, J. R., & van der Meulen, B. J. R. (Eds.). (2023). Research handbook on the transformation of higher education. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Contents and further information
Broucker, B., De Wit, K., Verhoeven, J. C., & Leišytė, L. (Eds.). (2019). Higher education system reform: An international comparison after twenty years of Bologna. Leiden: Brill Sense. Contents and further information
Leišytė, L., & Wilkesmann, U. (Eds.). (2016). Organizing academic work in higher education: Teaching, learning, and identities. London: Routledge. Contents and further information
Žostautienė, D., Susnienė, D., & Leišytė, L. (Eds.). (2016). CISABE’2016. 6th International Conference on Changes in Social and Business Environment, April 28-29, 2016, Panevėžys, Lithuania. Pianoro, Bologna: Medimond. Contents and further information
Book Chapters
Leišytė, L. (2026). Digital platforms and their usage in higher education human resource management. In D. A. Thomas & V. Laterza (Eds.), Critical perspectives on EdTech in higher education: Varieties of platformisation (pp. 233–251). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88173-2_10
Witte, J. (2025). Das deutsche Hochschulsystem. In P. Pasternack, G. Reinmann, & C. Schneijderberg (Eds.), Hochschulforschung: Forschung über Hochschule und Wissenschaft (pp. 163–174). Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748943334-163
Carvalho, T., Leišytė, L., Queirós, A., & Diogo, S. (2025). Gender and decision-making in the managerial university: A comparative analysis of women’s perceptions in Portugal and Lithuania. In L. Leišytė, M. Marquina, & G. A. Jones (Eds.), University governance, management and the academic profession: Transformations and challenges (pp. 153–172). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-86889-4_9
Jones, G. A., Leišytė, L., & Marquina, M. (2025). Governance, management and the academic profession: Themes and concluding observations. In L. Leišytė, M. Marquina, & G. A. Jones (Eds.), University governance, management and the academic profession: Transformations and challenges (pp. 223–234). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-86889-4_12
Leišytė, L. (2025). Conceptualising external governance of higher education: Towards multi-level and multi-actor hybrid arrangements. In L. Leišytė, M. Marquina, & G. A. Jones (Eds.), University governance, management and the academic profession: Transformations and challenges (pp. 13–28). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-86889-4_2
Leišytė, L., Jones, G. A., & Marquina, M. (2025). Trends in higher education governance and the academic profession. In L. Leišytė, M. Marquina, & G. A. Jones (Eds.), University governance, management and the academic profession: Transformations and challenges (pp. 3–10). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-86889-4_1
Pekşen, S., Rose, A.-L., Leišytė, L., & Želvys, R. (2025). The impact of managerialism on control and autonomy in the academic profession in Europe. In L. Leišytė, M. Marquina, & G. A. Jones (Eds.), University governance, management and the academic profession: Transformations and challenges (pp. 93–115). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-86889-4_6
Rose, A.-L., Papaioannou, P., Pekşen, S., Stolz, K., & Leišytė, L. (2025). Innovating business education through flipped classroom in Germany: liminal spaces and experiential learning. In M. A. Eklund & K. Graham (Eds.), Flipping the classroom with experiential and community-engaged learning in business: High-impact teaching practices in business education, volume 2 (pp. 209–224). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035321629.00023
Leišytė, L. (2025). Higher education policy. In M. van Gerven, C. Rothmayr Allison, & K. Schubert (Eds.), Encyclopedia of public policy (Living reference work). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90434-0_63-1
Leišytė, L., & Rose, A.-L. (2024). Academic identities. In F. Darbellay (Ed.), Elgar encyclopedia of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity (pp. 1–4). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035317967.ch01