Dr Forough Zarea Fazlelahi
Faculty of Business & Law,
Tier 2 Research Centre - Business & Law (U94),
Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research
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 the new spinoff firms, their strategic alliances’ formation and performance‒ specifically in the extractive industries such as the Australian mining industry. She has done her PhD on the same 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 was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Mining Equipment, Technology and Services Business Innovation (CMBI) at QUT Business School from 2020 to 2021. She worked on projects about risk management and innovation adoption across the mining sector. Forough also has a background in industrial engineering and financial engineering for her bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
Forough has published several papers in peer-reviewed A and A* journals such as the Journal of Vocational Behavior. Additionally, Forough has published a chapter in a book edited by Professor Gerard George (former editor of AMJ) and Dr Simon Schillebeeckx 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 also is on the editorial board of Growing Science Publications.
Forough has conducted longitudinal research projects by a synthesis of multiple datasets. Forough has also been involved in projects about quantitative research methods. She is an expert in Econometrics. Forough is proficient in analysis software such as STATA, SPSS (including PROCESS macro), UCINET and MATLAB.
Personal details
Positions
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Business & Law,
Tier 2 Research Centre - Business & Law (U94),
Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research - Visiting 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
Teaching experience at QUT:
- Semester 2, 2021: BSB399 Real World Ready - Business Capstone
- Semester 2, 2021: MGN428 Developing Entrepreneurial Mindset (Guest Lecturer)
Publications
- Zarea Fazlelahi F, Burgers H, Davidsson P, (2018) Meet the parents: An empirical study of spin-off network development, Presented at: Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management p15544
- 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 p138
- 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) p2264
- Gharakhani M, Zarea Fazlelahi F, Sadjadi S, (2014) A robust optimization approach for index tracking problem, Journal of Computer Science, 10 (12) p2450
QUT ePrints
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