
Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
Dr Forough Zarea is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research in the QUT Business School. She is interested in entrepreneurship, commercialization, and technology transfer. Her research focuses on a) how entrepreneurial passion can motivate employees in existing firms to found their own ventures, b) how Australian universities can be more efficient in commercialising their research (e.g., DEA analysis, fsQCA, academic entrepreneurship), and c) how new ventures can develop larger strategic alliance portfolios (e.g., joint ventures, strategic alliances).
Forough was awarded the Best Quantitative Paper Award in ACERE 2023 conference together with her co-author Prof Martin Obschonka. 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 co-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 Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Small Business Management, 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 (2017-2022).
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.
Additional information
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2023
- Details
- Best Quantitative Paper Award of the ACERE2023
- 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
- Zarea Fazlelahi, F., Burgers, J., Obschonka, M. & Davidsson, P. (2022). The imprinting effects of parent firms on the evolution of young spinoff alliance networks. Journal of Small Business Management. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/235705
- 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., 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. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206145
- Zarea Fazlelahi, F. & Burgers, H. (2018). Natural imprinting and vertical integration in the extractive industries. In G. George & SJD. Schillebeeckx (Eds.), Managing natural resources: Organizational strategy, behaviour and dynamics (pp. 138–162). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/116160
- 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, 15544. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120265
- 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), 2264–2274. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/90666