Dr Siran Zhan

Dr Siran Zhan

Senior Lecturer
Business School
School of Management and Governance

Dr. Siran Zhan is a senior lecturer in the School of Management and Governance at UNSW Business School. Siran co-leads (with Salih Ozdemir) the strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship research cluster.

Siran applies a psychological lens to investigate complex issues concerning innovation and entrepreneurship. For example, she has conducted a series of studies that shed light on the social (e.g., culture) and individual (e.g., identity, cognition, and emotions) determinants of creative and entrepreneurial performance. In Siran's more recent research program, she examines the consequences of entrepreneurship: career implications of entrepreneurial experimentation for individual entrepreneurs and talent management implications for organizations that hire former entrepreneurs.

In addition, Siran coaches aspiring entrepreneurs in UNSW's undergraduate and post-graduate programs. She co-designed (with Melodie Cartel) a 10-week incubator-style startup course and has led a team of tutors to deliver it multiple times a year. Students learn and practice critical skills of the lean startup methodology: design thinking, problem identification, ideation, prototyping, hypothesis testing and validation, business modelling, and pitching for investment. Since 2018, Siran has trained over 1000 students to develop, test, and pitch over 200 startup ideas. Some students went on to participate and win in startup competitions and successfully launch their businesses. More students went on to apply the lean startup skills gained in the course to initiate or improve innovative projects at work and in their communities. 

Siran is open to collaborating with researchers and industry and government partners to deliver research-based insights and solutions to their challenges in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship and managing innovative and entrepreneurial talents through consulting, training, and speaking.

  • Books | 2019
    Hong Y-Y; Zhan S, 2019, The Handbook of Culture and Psychology, Matsumoto D; Hwang HC, (ed.), Oxford University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190679743.001.0001
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Tamontseva M; Akkermans J; Stam W; Seibert S; Stephan U; Williamson GJ; Zhan S; Zhao H, 2024, 'How Can Entrepreneurs Achieve Career Success Across the Lifespan?', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2024.19102symposium
    Journal articles | 2023
    Zhan S; Zhang L; Li X; Wu Y, 2023, 'There's no going back? The influence of prior entrepreneurial experience timing on voluntary turnover in post‐entrepreneurship wage employment', Personnel Psychology: the study of people at work, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/peps.12627
    Journal articles | 2022
    Zhan S; Kacperczyk AJ; Seibert S; Mellish L; TEYI SS; Vladasel TL; Zhang L, 2022, 'Antecedents and Consequences of Entrepreneurial Careers: Integrate Micro and Macro Perspectives', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2022.15869symposium
    Journal articles | 2022
    Zhan S; Savani K, 2022, 'Relative Insensitivity to Sample Sizes in Judgments of Frequency Distributions: People are Similarly Confident in the Results From 30 Versus 3,000 Observations', Decision, 10, pp. 61 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dec0000182
    Journal articles | 2020
    Cardon MS; Gupta A; Carnevale JB; Javadian G; Ormiston J; Uy MA; Zhan S; Batra S; Bromuri S; Gielnik MM; Gupta VK; Iren D; Jacob GH; Kaminski JC; Lagdameo JL; Leyer M; Lin S; McSweeney J; McSweeney K; Miclat Jr. AG; Osi E; Tucker RL; Yang JY; Zhang SX, 2020, 'Emotions and Entrepreneurship: The Road Traveled, Boundary Conditions, and New Approaches', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020, pp. 17464 - 17464, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2020.17464symposium
    Journal articles | 2020
    Feng Z; Savani K; Wang CS; Bai Y; Feng Z; Tang S; Zhan S; Savani K; Wong KFE, 2020, 'Managers’ and Employees’ Judgment and Decision Making: New Theoretical Developments', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020, pp. 12980 - 12980, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2020.12980symposium
    Journal articles | 2020
    Zhan S; Uy MA; Hong Y-Y, 2020, 'Missing the forest for the trees: Prior entrepreneurial experience, role identity and entrepreneurial creativity', Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1042258720952291
    Journal articles | 2019
    Lin S; Yang J; Zhan S, 2019, 'Does Shame Help Serial Entrepreneurs Rebound from Failure?', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019, pp. 14847 - 14847, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2019.14847abstract
    Journal articles | 2019
    Mellish L; Zhan S, 2019, 'Career Outcomes Post-Entrepreneurship', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019, pp. 17295 - 17295, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2019.17295abstract
    Journal articles | 2019
    Zhan S; Uy MA; Hong Y-Y, 2019, 'Benefits of Entrepreneurs’ Behavioral Role Integration on Creativity and Venture Creation Success', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019, pp. 11392 - 11392, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2019.11392abstract
    Journal articles | 2018
    Zhan S; Bendapudi N; Hong Y, 2018, 'Cultural Values Differentially Moderate the Benefits of Basic Education on Two Types of National Innovation Outputs', Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49, pp. 199 - 222, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022022116650259
    Journal articles | 2017
    Savani K; Zhan S; Fang C, 2017, 'A Behavioral Decision Making Perspective on Organizational Inefficiencies', Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017, pp. 15521 - 15521, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2017.15521symposium
    Journal articles | 2016
    Hong Y-Y; Zhan S; Morris MW; Benet-Martínez V, 2016, 'Multicultural identity processes', Current Opinion in Psychology, 8, pp. 49 - 53
    Journal articles | 2015
    Zhan S; Bendapudi N; Hong Y-Y, 2015, 'Re-examining diversity as a double-edged sword for innovation process', Journal of Organizational Behavior, 36, pp. 1026 - 1049
  • Conference Abstracts | 2018
    Zhan S; Savani K, 2018, 'People believe data from a sample of 30 nearly as much as data from a sample of 3000?', in People believe data from a sample of 30 nearly as much as data from a sample of 3000?, Academy of Management 2018 Annual Meeting, Chicago, presented at Academy of Management 2018 Annual Meeting, Chicago, 10 August 2018 - 14 August 2018
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Bendapudi N; Zhan S, 2015, 'Quality Education Does Not Always Guarantee Creative Output: The Moderating Role of Cultural Values', in Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, pp. 16968 - 16968, Academy of Management
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Zhan S; Bendapudi N; Hong Y-Y, 2015, 'Diversity as a Double-Edged Sword: Opposing Effects of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity on Innovation', in Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management, pp. 12600 - 12600, Academy of Management

Siran has been involved in procuring approximately AUD$400,000 research grant funding. 

 

Best Overall Paper, Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research

UNSW Postgraduate Council Research Supervisor Award (Honorable Mention)

Best Quantitative Paper Award, Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research

Entrepreneurship and Motivation and Decision Making Best Paper Award, Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research

 

                       2023          

                       2022          

                   2020     

              2020

Student Travel Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting

             2015

Nanyang Technological University Research Scholarship

 2012 – 2016

Valedictorian Award in Social Sciences, Singapore Management University (SMU)

             2010

SMU Scholarship

                                    2006 – 2010

Psychlogy of Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Career, Managing Entrepreneurial Talents, Culture, Diversity and Inclusion. 

Editorial Board Membership:

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (FT50 & ABDC A*): Feb 2021 –

Management and Organization Review (ABDC A): 2018 –

My Research Supervision

2 Ph.D. Candidates

My Teaching

Current: 

MGMT2010: Innovation and Entrepreneurship 

MGMT5611: Entrepreneurship and New Venture Management

 

Past: 

MGMT3003: Global Entrepreneurship

Judgment and Decision Making (MBA)

Organizational Behavior