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Dr Forough Zarea Fazlelahi
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Management
Biography
Dr Forough Zarea is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at 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. 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 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.
Personal details
Positions
- Lecturer
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Management
Research field
Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
- Centre for Future Enterprise, QUT, Brisbane, Australia
- 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
- MGB263 Entrepreneurship Incubator 1 (undergraduate)
- MGB161 Thinking Like an Entrepreneur (undergraduate)
- MGN428 Developing Entrepreneurial Mindset (postgraduate)
- BSB399 Real World Ready - Business Capstone (undergraduate)
Publications
Research outputs by year
- 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
- 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
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Forough, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2024
- Details
- 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
Supervision
Looking for a postgraduate research supervisor?
I am currently accepting research students for Honours, Masters and PhD study.
You can browse existing student topics offered by QUT or propose your own topic.
Current supervisions
- 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
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.