Dr. Roxanne Zolin
Roxanne has held senior leadership positions in major companies in the USA and Australia. She was National Marketing Manager for Myers Stores, the world’s 15th largest Department Store chain at the time. She established and ran her own company building highly regarded business simulations to help nascent entrepreneurs learn business management.
Roxanne completed her doctorate in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. She also holds a Masters in Sociology, Master of Business Marketing and Bachelor of Business.
Roxanne was a Professor at the Australian Institute of Business and Queensland University of Technology. She continues to develop curriculum, teach, research and publish in the fields of entrepreneurship and management.
Roxanne’s research focuses on entrepreneurial success of Women, Migrants, and Seniors.
Since 2008 Roxanne has been active teaching entrepreneurship in developing nations, such as the Congo, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, and Kenya. She has also developed programs committed to addressing the inadvertent cycles of poverty and dependence caused by the financial remittances sent by expatriate Congolese to their families and communities in the Congo.
Education
2002 Stanford University, Stanford,CA
Ph.D. in Construction Engineering Management,Department of Civil Engineering
Trustin cross-functional and geographically distributed teamwork.
2001 Stanford University, Stanford,CA Master of Arts in Sociology
1991 Monash University, Vic,Australia
Master of Business in Marketing
1980 Queensland Institute of Technology,Brisbane,Queensland,Australia
(Now Queensland University of Technology) Bachelor of Business in Management
Professional Qualifications
2008 Team Management Profile™, Team Management Systems Accreditation Workshop.
2008 QO2 Profile™, Team Management Systems Accreditation Workshop.
2007 Project Management Institute®,Project Management Professional Certification.
Awards and Elected Positions
2013 Outstanding Paper of 2013 International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
“Challenging the female under performance hypothesis”.
2013 Best Reviewer Award, Public and Nonprofit Division of Academy of Management,
2013 Annual Meeting, Lake Buena Vista,FLA.
2013 Representative at Large, Entrepreneurship Division,Academy of Management
2011 Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Trust Research
2010 Best Paper of the Year Award,
Journal of Business Communication for“ The Central Role of Communication in Developing Trust and Its Effects on Employee Involvement”.
2008 Best Paper in Applied Entrepreneurship Award, Runner Up.
Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship International Conference, Melbourne, Australia for“The Devil You Know? The Potential Downside of Strong and Weak for Entrepreneurial Team Formation”.
2007 USASBE Extraordinary Educator Award
United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Award for extraordinary educational and professional support of the Corporate Entrepreneur ship Division
2006 Coleman Scholar ship Award,USASBE
United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship conference paper award.
2005 Coleman Scholarship Award,USASBE
United States of America Small Business and Entrepreneurship award for conference paper.
2002 Stanford Engineering,Science,and Math Opportunity Job Fair.
My graduate research project was selected to showcase research in the Engineering School.
A national award for the best financial services promotion of the year.
Peer Reviewed Publications
Zolin,RoxanneandGibbons,Deborah. (2014 ) Effects ofemergentsocial rolesand structuresontrustincolleagues.SageOpen.
Sawang,Sukanlaya,Zolin,RoxanneandMatthews,Judy,(2014) “Innovationin Spatial Industry(SI):How SI firms think about innovation?”ChapterinTechnology, Innovation,EntrepreneurshipandCompetitiveStrategy, Volume14 (2014),Emerald
Zolin,RoxanneandGibbons,Deborah. (InPress)StudyingRelationshipsin Project Management throughSocial Network Analysis.In (Ed.) Beverly Pasian. Methods, designs andpracticesforresearchintoProjectManagement.
Zolin,Roxanne,Stutzer,Michael&Watson,John(2013) Challengingthefemale underperformancehypothesis.InternationalJournalofGenderand Entrepreneurship. 5 (2),116 –129.
Chang,A.,Guo,C.,Yang,X.& Zolin,R. (2013),GuanxiasaComplexAdaptiveSystem: Definition,descriptionandunderlyingprincipals. JournalofAsian BusinessStudies.
Zolin, Roxanneand Schlosser,Francine(2013)Theroleof immigrant entrepreneursin internationalnew ventures.Thunderbird InternationalReview.55(3). 271-284.
Turner,J. RodneyandZolin,Roxanne (2012)ModelingSuccessonComplex Projects:Multiple
Perspectives overMultipleTimeFrames.JournalofProjectManagement.October 2012.
87-99.
Schlosser,Francineand Zolin, Roxanne(2012)HearingPositiveVoiceorDefensiveSilence: How
Tension,TrustandUnionsMakeADifference.EmployeeRelations. 34(5),555-573.
Zolin,Roxanne,Cheung,YKFiona, andTurner,J. Rodney(2011)Projectmanagers’ understandingofstakeholders’ssatisfaction,Project Perspectives:The annual publication ofInternationalProjectManagementAssociation,XXXIV,p10-15.
Zolin,R.(2011) UnsungHeroes:AfricanAmericans and Entrepreneurship. Ed. JosephK.
Golson.Encyclopaedia ofNew Venture Management. SageReference:
Remington,KayeandZolin,Roxanne(2011)Projects ascomplexadaptivesystems: Phenomena,prognosis andprospectsforpractice. InAspectsof Complexity: Perspectiveson Managing Projectsin an increasinglyComplexWorldTerry Davis- Cook (Ed)
Zolin, Roxanne,Kuckertz, Andreas andKautonen,Teemu(2011)Humanresourceflexibilityand strongtiesinentrepreneurial teamformation.JournalofBusinessResearch. 64, 1097-
1103.
Kautonen,Teemu,Zolin,Roxanne,Kuckertz,Andreas, andViljamaa,Anmari(2010)Tiesthat blind?How strong tiesaffectsmallbusinessowner-managers’perceived trustworthinessof theiradvisors. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. Volume22 Issue2,189.
Sekerka, LeslieE.,Zolin,RoxanneandJayeGoosby Smith (2009)Organizationalchange: How inquiry strategy influencesreadinessmode.Organizational ManagementJournal,6 (2),106 –122.
Kropp,Fredric, RoxanneZolinandNoelJ. Lindsay(2009),IdentifyingandImplementing AdaptiveStrategiesintheU.S. Military,InTomLumpkinandJeffrey Katz (Eds.), Advancesin Entrepreneurship Research,Volume11,New York,JAIPress/Elsevier.
Thomas,Gail,Zolin,RoxanneandHartman,JackieL. (2009).TheCentralRoleof Communicationin DevelopingTrustandItsEffectonEmployeeInvolvement. JournalofBusinessCommunication. 46(3).
Kropp,Fredric andZolin,Roxanne,(2008a) GovernmentSupport forTechnological
Entrepreneurship: TheUSSBIRProgram.InternationalSmall BusinessJournal.
Kropp,Fredric andZolin,Roxanne(2008b) TechnologicalEntrepreneurship andSmall BusinessInnovationPrograms, inGhosh,Amithaba,(Ed).GovernmentPolicyand Marketing Strategy. Hyderabad,India:ICDAIPress. 10-34.
Kropp,Fredric andZolin,Roxanne,(2008c). USfederalgovernment entrepreneurship:New enterprisestructures. JournalofSmallBusiness and Enterprise Development. 15(2).595–605.
Zolin,RoxanneandKropp,Fredric (2008). Thebirthof newenterprises:public or privateby geneticsorby design? InternationalPublicManagementReview. 9(1)143-159. http://www.idt.unisg.ch/org/idt/ipmr.nsf
Hagan,JoelJ., Slack,WilliamG.,Zolin,Roxanne,andDillard,John (2007a).BeyondLeanand Six Sigma:How organizationalmodellingandsimulation reducedF/A-18e/FF414 enginemaintenancetimeat NASLemooreAIMD.DefenseAcquisition Review Journal. 14(3)435-452.
Zolin,RoxanneandFredric Kropp(2007a). How GovernmentsCanHelpBusinessesWeather aCataclysmic Disaster.DeborahGibbons (Ed.),inCommunicableCrises:Prevention, Management,andRecoveryin theGlobalArena,Charlotte,NC,Information Age Publishing. 239-262.
Sekerka, L.E.andZolin,R. (2007) Canrulesbebentwithprudentialjudgment? How compliancemaybederidingvaluesin theDepartment of Defense. Public Integrity.9(3). 225-243.
Hagan,JoelJ., Slack,WilliamG.,Zolin,Roxanne,andDillard,John (March-April2007b) Now thatyou’veoptimizedyourprocess,optimizeyourorganization.DefenseAT& L (DefenseAcquisition,Technologyand Logistics). March2007. 16-20.
Zolin,RoxanneandFredric Kropp(2007b). How survivingbusinessesrespondduringand afteramajordisaster.Journalof BusinessContinuity &Emergency Planning. 1(2),1-
17. Kropp ,Fredric and Roxanne Zolin(2005). Technological Entrepreneurship and Small Business Innovation Research Programs. Academy of Marketing Sciences Review, volume 2005,no. 7.Available: http//www.amsreview.org/articles/kropp07=2005.pdf
Sekerka, LeslieE.andZolin,Roxanne(2005)Professionalcourageinthemilitary:regulation fit andestablishingmoralintent.Business&ProfessionalEthicsJournal,24(4). 27-50.
Lewis,IraandZolin,Roxanne (2004)“ThePublictoPrivateContinuumMeasureand therole ofstakeholder boards asa proxyformarkets inthegovernanceof AirNavigation
Services,”InternationalPublicManagementReview,5(2)52-77.http://www.idt.unisg.ch/org/idt/ipmr.nsf
Zolin,RoxanneandHinds, PamelaJ., (2004) Trustincontext:Thedevelopment of interpersonaltrustingeographicallydistributed work,InTrustand Distrustin Organizations,Eds. RoderickM. Kramer,andKarenCook forRussellSage Foundation:NewYork.pp214-238.
ZolinR,HindsP.J., FruchterR.,andLevittR.E.(2004),Interpersonaltrust incross- functional,geographically distributed work:Alongitudinalstudy. Information and Organization,14(1),1-24.
ZolinRoxanne,FruchterR andLevittR.E.(2003).RealismandControl? Key characteristics of problem-based learningenvironments asadatasourceforwork-relatedstudies, InternationalJournalofEngineering Education,19(6)788-798.
