Hasnain Zaheer
MMgt, MRes, PhD
Digital entrepreneurship & innovation
Business school learning & teaching
ABOUT ME (HE/HIM)
I am an experienced business school sessional academic in Australia, and a digital entrepreneurship researcher and practitioner.
I have a record of, and a desire to continue, to do creative and innovative work in digital enterprise industry practice, in university learning and teaching (L&T), and in research.
This word cloud depicts many of my skills, passions, and interests.
Education & Training
PhD
Macquarie Business School, 2020
MQRES - Macquarie Research Excellence Scholarship
Thesis-by-publications titled “Digital Entrepreneurship: Review, Trajectory and Practice”.
Finalist in the inaugural Early Career Research (ECR) Showcase, Macquarie University, Nov 2020
MRes
Macquarie Business School, 2016
Research Scholarship Stipend
Thesis titled “How do innovative digital startups achieve success?: perspectives of Australian founders”
Coursework units include quantitative and qualitative research, research communications and research frontiers.
MMgt
Macquarie Graduate School of Management, 2013
Marketing management, Strategic marketing, Strategic management, New venture management, Organisational behaviour, Business performance measurement & management, Information & decision analysis, Public performance for managers, Human resources management and Accounting for management.
GPA – 3.25 out of 4
Pursued in conjunction with full time industry practice (2008-2012)
Certifications
FHEA
Fellow, Higher Education Academy
CPM
Certified Practicing Marketer, Australian Marketing
Institute
Continuing Professional Development
2022 - Accelerated learning certification for virtual training, The Learning Gym.
2021 - Online learning design for educators specialisation consisting of 1) Online education: the foundations of online teaching; 2) Create video, audio and infographics for online learning; and 3) Online teaching: using Zoom to connect with learners, Coursera and Macquarie University.
2021 - Innovation and emerging technology: be disruptive, Coursera and Macquarie University.
2020 - Teaching online, Macquarie University
2019 - Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
Completed training to learn Scrum framework
2016 - Foundations in Learning and Teaching (FiLT), Macquarie University
2013 - Certificate IV in Training & Assessments
Research
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Zaheer, H., Breyer, Y, Dumay, J. & Enjeti, M., 2019, ‘Straight from the horse's mouth: Founders' perspectives on achieving ‘traction’ in digital start-ups’, Computers in Human Behavior, Vol. 95 pp. 262-274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.03.002
Contributions:
Defines and provides a model of "traction" as a unique and new construct in the field. The article was appreciated by practitioners as an example of academic research that is useful and relevant to entrepreneurs.
Metrics:
ABDC B, IF 6.829. 68 citations since April 2018.
Zaheer, H, Breyer, Y & Dumay, J, 2019, ‘Digital entrepreneurship: an interdisciplinary structured literature review and research agenda’, Tech. Fore & Social Change, Vol. 148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119735
Contributions:
An interdisciplinary literature review which is comprehensive, unique in approach, has a large dataset of articles and is pathbreaking by providing several unique contributions (definitions of constructs involved in the field, identifying the phases of research and identifyng the future of the field)
Metrics:
ABDC A, IF 9.01. 112 citations since September 2019.
Zaheer, H, Breyer, Y, Dumay, J & Enjeti, M, 2022, ‘The entrepreneurial journeys of digital start-up founders’, Tech. Forecasting & Social Change, Vol 179, June 2022, 121638, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121638
Contributions
50 entrepreneurs who have collectively founded more than 120 digital start-ups are studied to find how digital affordances impact entrepreneurship, and how do founders create (and pause, abandon, pivot, repeat or persist with) their start-ups in their long-term entrepreneurial journey.
Metrics:
ABDC A, IF 9.01.
Report
Breyer, Y, Tan, LP, Zaheer, H, Denby, L & Rickards, S, 2019, ‘Aligning business education with industry expectations on employability and sustainability’, Department of Education and Training, Australian Government, Learning and Teaching Repository, https://bit.ly/2W7pFYE
Contributions
Identifies the skills of business school graduates in demand by the industry.
Theses
Zaheer, H, 2015, ‘How do innovative digital startups achieve success?: perspectives of Australian founders, MRes thesis available at http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1089596
Zaheer, H, 2019, 'Digital entrepreneurship: review, trajectory and practice’. PhD thesis, available at http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1271716
Book
Nielsen, C, Zaheer, H, Breyer, Y, Paolone, F, Montemari, M, & Lund, M, 2019, ‘Market Traction: A Manual for Accelerating Your Business Model’.
Reviewer
2020- Reviewer, Tech. Fore. & Social Chg (ABDC A)
2020- Reviewer, International Small Business (ABDC A)
2018-19 Reviewer, Computers in Human Behavior (ABDC B)
2018-19 Reviewer, Aust. Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange
Contribution in an industry publication
Zaheer, H, Toward the next generation of digital entrepreneurs: ecosystem support usher a new era of startup pioneers' The Innovation Papers, InnovationAus.com, p. 57.
(Link to the PDF file hosted at Adobe - p. 29 of the PDF file)
In this paper, I have explained why and how government policy and support programmes should incorporate a digital technology perspective. I explain how the new digital startups fundamentally require a different focus of policy and support. The focal unit should shift from the creation of a business firm to the individual founder or founding team. The key programmes must move from picking the winners for grants to a focus on entrepreneurship education at many levels - school, vocational, professional and higher education.
Achievements
Finalist in Macquarie University ECR Showcase, 2020
high number of views and downloads of theses
Learning & Teaching
Aim
My aim is to teach and learn industry practice-informed entrepreneurship, marketing, and innovation.
My overall teaching practice objective is to
- create learner-focused curriculum with transdisciplinary insights;
- to practice activity-based and peer-based learning which embeds industry practice
- balance academic rigor with the employability imperative.
subject convenor
BUSM7048 Innovation, Creativity & Foresight
BUSM7012 Business Project
BUSM7046 Innovation for New Markets
BUSM7078 Project Management
BUSM3006 Design Thinking for Creativity
BUSM3005 Creating Change & Innovation
BUSM3027 Innovation & Professional Practice
BUSM3031 International Business Strategy
BUSM2031 Managing in the Global Environment
MKTG833 Social Media Management (2016-2018)
Workshop Leader
BUSM1006 Enterprise Innovation & Markets
BUSM3036 Leadership & Entrepreneurship
MKTG8004 Digital Marketing Strategies
MKTG1001 Marketing fundamentals
MKTG3006 Digital Marketing
MKTG815 Consumer behavior (2019)
MKTG2006 Marketing Technologies (2020)
Ongoing & planned projects
Articles in preparation
Entrepreneurship research
Zaheer, H, 2022, ‘Entrepreneurship research: an integrative review of recent progress and future trajectory’/
Digital technology perspective
In continuing my research on the digital technology perspective, I apply the perspective to new fields.
Zaheer, H, 2022, ‘A design and digital technology perspective of democracy' in preparation.
Design Science project - An entrepreneurship boardgame
Aim - impart entrepreneurial knowledge and skills to aspiring and budding start-ups in a ‘fun’ and engaging format. The game targets higher education learners as well as mainstream audience keen to learn about entrepreneurship. The game incorporates diverse contexts, a range of industries, multiple business types, assorted business models, and a choice of decision-making approaches.
Journal article providing the project’s objectives, the design science research approach in designing and developing the game and key details
Zaheer, H & Enjeti, M, 2022, ‘Creating a board game on entrepreneurship theme for edutainment’ (in preparation)
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