Nijat Muradzada
n.muradzada.1@research.gla.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4354-3685
Research title: How can the Entrepreneurial State Facilitate Green Transition? A Retrospective Exploratory Analysis of Azerbaijan.
Research summary
Muradzada's current research retrospectively explores Azerbaijan's institutional trajectory through the lens of economic transition, enery and sustainability.
Research interests:
- Institutional change over time
- Energy and sustainability in Azerbaijan
- Innovation and management in post-Soviet Geography
- Stat capitalism and governance in state-owned enterprises
- Historical institutionalism
- Systems thinking
Publications
2026
Landoni, Matteo 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1450-3875 and Muradzada, Nijat
(2026)
Renewable dependence as an institutional transition risk in hydrocarbon economies: insights from Azerbaijan.
Economies, 14(1),
14.
(doi: 10.3390/economies14010014)
2025
Muradzada, Nijat (2025) Open innovation under institutional constraints: relational knowledge improvisation in post-Soviet startups. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 11(4), 100647. (doi: 10.1016/j.joitmc.2025.100647)
2024
Muradzada, Nijat and Landoni, Matteo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1450-3875
(2024)
No interaction, no problem? An investigation of organizational issues in university-industry-government triad in a transition economy.
Administrative Sciences, 14(10),
246.
(doi: 10.3390/admsci14100246)
Articles
Landoni, Matteo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1450-3875 and Muradzada, Nijat
(2026)
Renewable dependence as an institutional transition risk in hydrocarbon economies: insights from Azerbaijan.
Economies, 14(1),
14.
(doi: 10.3390/economies14010014)
Muradzada, Nijat (2025) Open innovation under institutional constraints: relational knowledge improvisation in post-Soviet startups. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 11(4), 100647. (doi: 10.1016/j.joitmc.2025.100647)
Muradzada, Nijat and Landoni, Matteo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1450-3875
(2024)
No interaction, no problem? An investigation of organizational issues in university-industry-government triad in a transition economy.
Administrative Sciences, 14(10),
246.
(doi: 10.3390/admsci14100246)
Supervisors
Grants
- The Internal Grant of the Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC), 2022-2023.
Teaching
Undergraduate
Fall 24/25:
- ESH 1A: Economic and Social History in Global Contexts, ca. 1750-1914
- CEES 2A: Post-communist Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Spring 24/25:
- ESH 1B: Themes in Globalisation, 1914-c2008
- CEES 2B: Central and South-East Europe after Communism
Additional information
Nijat Muradzada is a PhD candidate and a graduate instructor at the University of Glasgow and the deputy director of the research centre at the Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC). Prior to rejoining Glasgow, he held a lectureship in Business and Statistics and a research fellowship at the Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC). His current research explores path dependence and institutional change over time in the Azerbaijani economy as well as broader topics such as state capitalism, management, sustainability and innovation in post-Soviet geography. Besides his academic work, Muradzada is engaged in individual and corporate consultancy services.
Nijat Muradzada received a postgraduate degree (MSc) in Global Economy from the University of Glasgow, where he graduated with Distinction and ranked first in his cohort, and completed an undergraduate degree (BA) in Business Administration at Istanbul University with Distinction in the top three. He took part in internship programs at the Central Bank of Azerbaijan, the Central Office of Yapi Kredi Bank in Istanbul, and the Baku Stock Exchange during his studies.
Muradzada coauthored and authored two books, five research papers published in peer-reviewed journals, two conference materials, and a series of opinion articles published in the press, mainly in the Azerbaijan State News Agency (AZERTAC).