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 Management & Entrepreneurship at the cluster of Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Ppolitical 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, strategic 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, Samuel, Madjdi, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 and Zolfaghari, Badri (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, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568, Packard, Mark and Zolfaghari, Badri (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, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 and Zolfaghari, Badri (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, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 and Zolfaghari, Badri (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, Badri and Madjdi, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 (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, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 and Zolfaghari, Badri (2023) Social entrepreneurs have different reasons for creating their ventures: policymakers should take these into account. Conversation, 12 Jun.

2022

Madjdi, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 and Zolfaghari, Badri (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, Badri and Madjdi, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 (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, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 and Zolfaghari, Badri (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, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 and Zolfaghari, Badri (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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Articles

Madjdi, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568, Packard, Mark and Zolfaghari, Badri (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, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 and Zolfaghari, Badri (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, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 and Zolfaghari, Badri (2023) Social entrepreneurs have different reasons for creating their ventures: policymakers should take these into account. Conversation, 12 Jun.

Madjdi, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 and Zolfaghari, Badri (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, Badri and Madjdi, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 (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, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 and Zolfaghari, Badri (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, Samuel, Madjdi, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 and Zolfaghari, Badri (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, Badri and Madjdi, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 (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, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 and Zolfaghari, Badri (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, Farsan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2187-6568 and Zolfaghari, Badri (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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Prior publications

Book Section

Badri Zolfaghari, Farsan Madjdi (2025) Bridging paradigmatic divides to theorise in a new context: analysing accounts of trust development among culturally diverse organisational members Crossref. (doi: 10.4337/9781035322329.00022)

Article

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

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

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

 

Invitation for PhD application:

Together with my colleague, Dr Farhad Shafti, we are keen to recruit a strong, self-funded PhD candidate to pursue the following research idea (starting in the academic year 2025/26):

This PhD research project delves into the transformative journey of social media entrepreneurs who transition from passionate enthusiasts to dedicated professionals, building sustainable ventures on YouTube. It contributes to the body of knowledge in this under-researched area by examining how individuals, initially driven by their love for specific interests, gradually harness their passion into a viable digital enterprise. It will explore the strategies they employ to refine content, engage diverse audiences, and navigate the commercial aspects of the platform, understanding what the typical processes, risks, and opportunities are, ultimately shedding light on turning personal interests into professional pursuits. The methodology is based on collecting qualitative data, utilising appropriate analytical and illustrative tools to reach the objectives of the research project. This research project is particularly relevant as it not only offers insights into the evolving nature of digital entrepreneurship as a growing segment of the digital economy but also provides a nuanced understanding of how passion is converted into enduring business success on modern online platforms that contribute to innovation, job creation, and broader economic development.

 

Note: Please provide your CV, academic transcript, and a proposal outlining how your interests can fit this research agenda well.

 

 

 

Teaching

Courses:

  • Social & Community Entrepreneurship (MGT4048)
  • New Venture Creation (MGT1003)
  • Entrepreneurship (MGT2014)
  • Integrating Business and Management in Practice (MGT4091)