Dr Forough Zarea Fazlelahi

Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Management
Biography
Dr Forough Zarea Fazlelahi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research in the QUT Business School. She has worked in the fields of entrepreneurship and strategic management. Her research focuses on academic and corporate spinoff firms, research commercialisation, and strategic alliances’ formation and performance. She has done her PhD on similar topics. Her PhD thesis was nominated for the Heizer Award 2021 as one of the finalists (one of the ENT Division’s prestigious dissertation awards in the Academy of Management). Forough has also worked on projects about risk management and innovation adoption across the mining sector. Forough has published several papers in peer-reviewed A and A* journals such as the Journal of Vocational Behavior and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. Forough has published a chapter in a book edited by Professor Gerard George (former editor of AMJ) in 2018. Forough has presented her research at major international conferences such as the Academy of Management conference (ENT division) in 2018, 2019, and 2020, and the ACERE conference in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Forough has conducted longitudinal research projects by a synthesis of multiple datasets. She is an expert in econometrics, involving the analysis of primary and secondary data with complex econometrics multivariate methods. Forough is proficient in analysis software such as STATA, SPSS (including PROCESS macro), AMOS, R, UCINET, and MATLAB.Forough is accredited to co-supervisor HDR students in the School of Management at QUT.
Personal details
Positions
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Management
Discipline
Business and Management
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
- The Australian Center for Entrepreneurship Research (ACE), QUT, Brisbane, Australia
- Academy of Management (AOM)
- Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
- The Centre for Mining Equipment, Technology and Services Business Innovation (CMBI), QUT business school, Brisbane, Australia
Teaching
Forough is an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (AFHEA). Forough has extensive experience in the course and program development. She has taught hundreds of students as the unit coordinator and lecturer of “Corporate Finance” and “Financial Information Systems”. Teaching experience at QUT:
Undergraduate:
- BSB399 Real World Ready - Business Capstone (Semester 1, 2022; Semester 2, 2021)
Postgraduate:
- MGN428 Developing Entrepreneurial Mindset (Guest Lecturer)- (Semester 1, 2022; Semester 2, 2021)
Selected publications
- Zarea Fazlelahi F, Burgers J, Obschonka M, Davidsson P, (2022) Spinoffs' alliance network growth beyond parental ties: performance diminishing, then performance enhancing, Asia Pacific Journal of Management.
- Cooper B, Eva N, Zarea Fazlelahi F, Newman A, Lee A, Obschonka M, (2020) Addressing common method variance and endogeneity in vocational behavior research: A review of the literature and suggestions for future research, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 121.
- Zarea Fazlelahi F, Obschonka M, Burgers H, Davidsson P, (2020) Imprinting effect of initial networks on subsequent network status: A replication and extension study, Presented at: Academy of Management Conference .
- Zarea Fazlelahi F, Burgers H, (2018) Natural imprinting and vertical integration in the extractive industries. In G George & SJD Schillebeeckx, Managing natural resources: Organizational strategy, behaviour and dynamics, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 138-162.
- Burgers H, Davidsson P, Zarea Fazlelahi F, (2018) Meet the parents: An empirical study of spin-off network development, Presented at: Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, pp. 15544.
- Zarea Fazlelahi F, Pournader M, Gharakhani M, Sadjadi S, (2016) A robust approach to design a single facility layout plan in dynamic manufacturing environments using a permutation-based genetic algorithm, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 230 (12), pp. 2264-2274.
QUT ePrints
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