Lecturer
Phone: (07) 3138 6878
Fax: (07) 3138.5054
Email: r.zolin@qut.edu.au
Room: B511, Level 5, B Block, Gardens Point campus
Qualifications
Ph.D. in Construction Engineering Management, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Master of Arts in Sociology Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Master of Business in Marketing Monash University, Vic, Australia
Bachelor of Business in Management Queensland Institute of Technology, (now Queensland University of Technology) Qld, Australia
Career Summary
Roxanne has published approximately 40 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and conference papers in journals such as Information and Organization, International Journal of Engineering Education, International Public Management Review, Business & Professional Ethics Journal, Academy of Marketing Review, Defense AT&L, Journal of Business Continuity and Disaster Response. She is an avid researcher, winning numerous research grants raising more than $500,000 in her first five years since getting her PhD from Stanford University. Roxanne is Editor of FINTnews, for the First International Network of Trust researchers.
Roxanne's first career was in Marketing Management, where she was on the team that introduced the first Automated Teller Machines to the banking industry in Australia. Roxanne was National Marketing Manager for Myers Stores, the world's 15th largest department store chain. Roxanne then started her own business, Marketing Visions, providing training and consulting to help people start new businesses. She then went on to build business simulations, The Factory MicroWorld and MicroMoney, to help nascent entrepreneurs learn business management.
Teaching Interests
Roxanne has consistently earned top evaluations from resident MBA students as well as in classes designed for distance learning and executive programmes, and she has a sheaf of commendations from project sponsors whose teams benefited from her classes and consulting. While at Stanford, Roxanne TAed an innovative course taught by Dr. Renate Fruchter on global architecture-engineering construction team work. This class involved students working in teams from multiple universities around the world using Internet-based collaboration technologies. She has adapted and extended this set of technologies to create very successful courses that include opportunities to learn intervention in complex project dynamics.
Roxanne has taught across a range of organisation, entrepreneurship and management subjects such as
- Collaborative Problem Solving
- Entrepreneurial Thinking
- Building Effective Teams
- Organisational Behaviour
- Organisational Design
Research Interests
Roxanne's research focuses on how organisation structures influence the development of trust and the impact on teamwork, innovation and organisational performance. She has studied trust in virtual teams in the construction industry. In engineering teams differences in trust and control were found between military personnel and government contractors. Roxanne studied businesses post-Katrina and hypothesised that their entrepreneurial orientation may have contributed to their survival. Another study found that government employees who bend the rules to achieve the mission are more likely to consider rule bending a threat to the organisation than those who do so for personal reasons.
Access to Roxanne’s publications can be found at :QUT | ePrints Archive - Person: Zolin, Roxanne