Dr Farsan Madjdi

  • Lecturer in Entrepreneurship (Management)

email: Farsan.Madjdi@glasgow.ac.uk

Adam Smith Business School, 2 Discovery Place, Glasgow, G11 6EY

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568

Biography

Farsan Madjdi is a lecturer in entrepreneurship at the cluster of entrepreneurship, regional development and political economy at Adam Smith business school, University of Glasgow, UK.

He holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town, Graduate School of
Business, South Africa, exploring the relationship between personal identities, entrepreneurial behavior, and the perception of entrepreneurial opportunities. He also acted as a start-up advisor and new venture creation facilitator. In addition to his PhD, he received an MBA from Henley Business School, UK, and an MSc in Management & Economics from the University of Regensburg, Germany.

Farsan has extensive professional work experience with multinational corporations and (corporate) start-ups in developed and emerging markets with a focus on innovation management and business development.

Research interests

Farsan is a member of the School's Entrepreneurship, Development and Political Economy research cluster.

Areas of expertise and interests:

  • Entrepreneurial Imagination and Action
  • (New) Venture Team Formation
  • Entrepreneurial Identities
  • Entrepreneurial Well-Being
  • Venture Design and Legitimacy
  • Social Media Entrepreneurship
  • Meaningful Work and Hybrid Entrepreneurship

Publications

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Number of items: 10.

2024

Mortimer, S., Madjdi, F. and Zolfaghari, B. (2024) Job Crafting for MEANINGFUL Work and Meaningful WORK: A Theoretical Extension of Job Crafting Theory. The 94th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, USA, 9-13 August 2024. (doi: 10.5465/amproc.2024.18020abstract)

Madjdi, F. , Packard, M. and Zolfaghari, B. (2024) Entrepreneurial opportunities as expressions of personal identities: interpretative engagement through personal value structures. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 36(5-6), pp. 681-706. (doi: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2285818)

2023

Madjdi, F. and Zolfaghari, B. (2023) Individuating: how founder's social identities shape their evaluation of opportunities. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 29(11), pp. 58-80. (doi: 10.1108/IJEBR-12-2021-0990)

Madjdi, F. and Zolfaghari, B. (2023) Volocopter: Pursuit of Venture Legitimacy in the Sustainable Urban Air Mobility Ecosystem. Series: SAGE Business Cases. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781071931141 (doi: 10.4135/9781071931141)

Zolfaghari, B. and Madjdi, F. (2023) Exploring New Venture Team Creation and Evolution Through Configurations of Trust. The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, MA, USA, 4-8 August 2023. (doi: 10.5465/AMPROC.2023.12398abstract)

Madjdi, F. and Zolfaghari, B. (2023) Social entrepreneurs have different reasons for creating their ventures: policymakers should take these into account. Conversation, 12 Jun.

2022

Madjdi, F. and Zolfaghari, B. (2022) Creating social ventures: how social motivations and goals drive venture idea judgments. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, (doi: 10.1080/19420676.2022.2153902) (Early Online Publication)

Zolfaghari, B. and Madjdi, F. (2022) Building trusting multicultural organizations: rethinking the influence of culture on interpersonal trust development in the workplace. Journal of International Management, 28(4), 100944. (doi: 10.1016/j.intman.2022.100944)

Madjdi, F. and Zolfaghari, B. (2022) Creating Social Ventures: How (Social) Motivations and Goals Drive Venture Idea Judgments (WITHDRAWN). In: The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Online and Seattle, Washington, USA, 5-9 Aug 2022, (doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2022.10259abstract)

Madjdi, F. and Zolfaghari, B. (2022) Search and Validation: How Individuation Drives the Opportunity Evaluation of Founders. In: The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Online and Seattle, Washington, USA, 5-9 Aug 2022, (doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2022.11406abstract)

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Number of items: 10.

Articles

Madjdi, F. , Packard, M. and Zolfaghari, B. (2024) Entrepreneurial opportunities as expressions of personal identities: interpretative engagement through personal value structures. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 36(5-6), pp. 681-706. (doi: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2285818)

Madjdi, F. and Zolfaghari, B. (2023) Individuating: how founder's social identities shape their evaluation of opportunities. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 29(11), pp. 58-80. (doi: 10.1108/IJEBR-12-2021-0990)

Madjdi, F. and Zolfaghari, B. (2023) Social entrepreneurs have different reasons for creating their ventures: policymakers should take these into account. Conversation, 12 Jun.

Madjdi, F. and Zolfaghari, B. (2022) Creating social ventures: how social motivations and goals drive venture idea judgments. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, (doi: 10.1080/19420676.2022.2153902) (Early Online Publication)

Zolfaghari, B. and Madjdi, F. (2022) Building trusting multicultural organizations: rethinking the influence of culture on interpersonal trust development in the workplace. Journal of International Management, 28(4), 100944. (doi: 10.1016/j.intman.2022.100944)

Books

Madjdi, F. and Zolfaghari, B. (2023) Volocopter: Pursuit of Venture Legitimacy in the Sustainable Urban Air Mobility Ecosystem. Series: SAGE Business Cases. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781071931141 (doi: 10.4135/9781071931141)

Conference or Workshop Item

Mortimer, S., Madjdi, F. and Zolfaghari, B. (2024) Job Crafting for MEANINGFUL Work and Meaningful WORK: A Theoretical Extension of Job Crafting Theory. The 94th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, USA, 9-13 August 2024. (doi: 10.5465/amproc.2024.18020abstract)

Zolfaghari, B. and Madjdi, F. (2023) Exploring New Venture Team Creation and Evolution Through Configurations of Trust. The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, MA, USA, 4-8 August 2023. (doi: 10.5465/AMPROC.2023.12398abstract)

Conference Proceedings

Madjdi, F. and Zolfaghari, B. (2022) Creating Social Ventures: How (Social) Motivations and Goals Drive Venture Idea Judgments (WITHDRAWN). In: The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Online and Seattle, Washington, USA, 5-9 Aug 2022, (doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2022.10259abstract)

Madjdi, F. and Zolfaghari, B. (2022) Search and Validation: How Individuation Drives the Opportunity Evaluation of Founders. In: The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Online and Seattle, Washington, USA, 5-9 Aug 2022, (doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2022.11406abstract)

This list was generated on Thu Nov 21 04:39:16 2024 GMT.

Prior publications

ORCiD

(2011) The heterogeneity of incumbents' perceptions and response strategies in the face of potential disruptions Foresight (doi: 10.1108/14636681111170194)(issn: 1463-6689); source: Farsan Madjdi

(2011) The response strategies of incumbent mobile network operators on the disruptive potential of public W-LAN in Germany Telecommunications Policy (doi: 10.1016/j.telpol.2011.04.013)(issn: 0308-5961); source: Farsan Madjdi

Supervision

Farsan is interested in supervising doctoral research that relates to his area of expertise with a particular focus on qualitative research methods.

Specific areas of interests include:

  • Entrepreneurial Imagination
  • Entrepreneurial Well-Being
  • Social Media Entrepreneurship
  • Meaningful Work
  • Hybrid Entrepreneurship
  • New Venture Creation