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Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
Dr Forough Zarea is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at QUT Business School. Her research interests are:
- academic entrepreneurship, technology transfer, and commercialisation
- psychological aspects of entrepreneurship research (e.g., entrepreneurial passion)
- innovation management.
Forough was awarded the Best Quantitative Paper Award in ACERE 2023 conference together with her co-author Prof Martin Obschonka. Additionally, another paper with her co-authors was the runner-up for the Best Overall Paper Award at the ACERE 2024 conference. Forough’s 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 is accredited to supervisor HDR students in the School of Management at QUT.
Forough has published several papers in peer-reviewed A and A* journals such as the Small Business Economics Journal, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Technology Transfer, Journal of Small Business Management, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. Forough is an editorial board member of the Australian Journal of Management and regularly reviews for high impact and FT50 journals.
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 R, STATA, fsQCA, SPSS (including PROCESS macro), AMOS, UCINET, and MATLAB. Currently, she leads a project using LLMs.
Additional information
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2024
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- Best Reviewer Award of the Academy of Management Conference, Technology and Innovation Management Division
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2024
- Details
- Runner-up for the Best Overall Paper Award of the ACERE2024
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2023
- Details
- Best Quantitative Paper Award of the ACERE2023
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2021
- Details
- PhD thesis nomination for the Heizer Award from Academy of Management ENT division
- Zarea Fazlelahi, F., Douglas, E., Obschonka, M., Davidsson, P., Audretsch, D. & Hutmacher, D. (2025). When the marketplace comes to the research laboratory: technology transfer efficiency of innovation-driven publicly funded research centers. Journal of Technology Transfer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/257440
- Zarea Fazlelahi, F., Burgers, J., Obschonka, M. & Davidsson, P. (2024). Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms. Small Business Economics, 63(4), 1555–1583. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/246478
- 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. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206150
- Zarea Fazlelahi, F., Burgers, J., Obschonka, M. & Davidsson, P. (2024). The imprinting effects of parent firms on the evolution of young spinoff alliance networks. Journal of Small Business Management, 62(3), 1253–1285. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/235705
- Zarea Fazlelahi, F., Burgers, J., Obschonka, M. & Davidsson, P. (2023). Spinoffs' alliance network growth beyond parental ties: performance diminishing, then performance enhancing. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 40(2), 743–773. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/227393
- Internationalisation of Manufacturing SMES: Examining How Digitalisation and External Disruptive Events Can Foster Internationalisation
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Shane Mathews, Dr Charmaine Glavas