Rate My Professor Vita Akstinaite

Vita Akstinaite is a management lecturer at Murdoch University within the Murdoch Business School, part of the College of Arts, Business, Law and Social Sciences. She held the position of Lecturer from 2018 to 2021, serving also as a member of the ABLSS College Board, and is currently listed as an Adjunct Lecturer. Prior to academia, Akstinaite worked in management roles at PageGroup and McKinsey Consulting. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Business and Management from the University of Surrey in 2018, with a doctoral thesis titled 'Use of linguistic markers in the identification and analysis of chief executives' hubris.' Her research specializations center on hubris in leadership, linguistic markers of CEO hubris, heuristics in CEO decision-making, and related leadership dynamics. Akstinaite has received the Australian Institute of Management (WA) Aspire Professional Development Award in 2019, which supported her attendance at the European Academy of Management Annual Conference in Lisbon and the Academy of Management conference in Boston. She is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management Western Australia and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Akstinaite's key publications include 'Linguistic Markers of CEO Hubris' published in the Journal of Business Ethics in 2020 (co-authored with Graham Robinson and Eugene Sadler-Smith), 'Understanding hubris and heuristics in CEO decision-making: Implications for management' in 2023, 'Hubristic leadership: Understanding the hazard and mitigating the risks' in 2019 (co-authored with Eugene Sadler-Smith and Graham Robinson), 'Entrepreneurial hubris' as a book chapter in the World Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship, and 'Do successful adult leaders share common childhood experiences?' as a book chapter in 2016. She has supervised master's theses, including 'The relationship between destructive unethical practices of entrepreneurs and venture performance' in 2022 and 'The economy of pets' in 2022. Her work contributes to understanding the psychological and linguistic indicators of hubristic tendencies in executives and their organizational implications.