Universitetet i Agder

Mahsa Samsami

PhD Candidate

Office:: 17105 ( Universitetsveien 17, Kristiansand )

Mahsa Samsami is a doctoral candidate at the University of Agder. She earned her Master's degree in Business Administration from Tehran University. She was a teaching assistant at Tehran University and the University of Santiago de Compostela. She is currently assisting at the University of Agder. Her academic background is complemented by extensive practical experience in business administration, notably in family businesses, entrepreneurship, and investor behavior, especially in financial markets. She has worked as a member of the board and an executive manager in one brokerage of the stock exchange. She is a member of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor as a researcher.

Research interests

Entrepreneurship.
Family business
Digitalization
Innovation
Sustainability

Work experience

Academic Work Experience

September 2021- Present- University of Santiago de Compostela Spain Researcher, and technical support staff, Member of GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) in Spain and Galicia
2021-Present: Working as a Teaching Assistant in Statistical learning with SPSS- University of Agder
Reviewing submission to International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing. (January 2023-Present).
Reviewing submission to Management Decision (2021-Present).
Reviewing submission to European Journal of International Management (2021-Present).
Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela in the field of Data description and SPSS (March 2022)
Lecturer at Kassel University in the field of Simulation by R software and Polya Tree (May 2021)
Feb 2017 – July 2021: Teaching Assistant at the University of Tehran in Digital Marketing and Research Methodologies in Management (SPSS), Statistical Analysis, and Applied Decision Making in Management. Advertising and Brand Management, Customer Relationship Management, Negotiation, and Communication Principles for Managers.
Providing research assistance for University of Southern Denmark. (August 2022-PRESENT)

Industrial Work Experience

March 2007 – January 2022: Member of the board, Executive administration, and Human resource manager (Brokerage of Stock Exchange, Tehran, Iran)
May 2010 – May 2014: Member of Board & Director of green space and agriculture projects in the urban field and green space engineering services.

Academic interests

Family businesses.
Entrepreneurship.
Investor behavior especially in financial markets and in the digital environment

Projects

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor - Spanish team- as Technical and research support staff.

Selected publications

Samsami, Mahsa; Schøtt, Thomas "Past, Present, and Future Digitalization around the World: Leading, Catching up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind".
Samsami, Mahsa; El Kolaly, Hoda; Gonzalez-Pernia, Jose L; Boutaleb, Fatima. "Gender Roles Shaping the Entrepreneurial Mindset: Impacted by the Pandemic and Culture in Egypt, Morocco, and Spain", European Journal of International Management. (In press)
Samsami, Mahsa; El Kolaly, Hoda; Schøtt, Thomas. 2022. "Business angels' ties with entrepreneurs: Embedded in traditional and secular-rational cultures" Developments in Entrepreneurial Finance and Technology, Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN: 9781800884335, Chapter 10, Pages 182-198.
Samsami, Mahsa. 2022. "Business angels' ties with entrepreneurs in traditional and secular-rational societies: China, Egypt, and Iran contrasted Germany and Norway", European Journal of International Management. 10.1504/EJIM.2022.10048399
Samsami, Mahsa; Tønnessen, Øystein; The Fleet, Bjorn-Tore. 2022 "Entrepreneurial orientation confronting disruption: Embedded in networks in Iran and Norway during the COVID-19 pandemic". European Journal of International Management. 10.1504/EJIM.2022.10048400
Samsami, Mahsa; Schøtt, Thomas. 2021. "Family and non-family business in Iran: Coupling among innovation, exporting, and growth-expectation". European Journal of Family Business. 11(2). 40-55. https://doi.org/10.24310/ejfbejfb.v11i2.10444
Liu, Ye; Samsami, Mahsa; Meshreki, Hakim; Pereira Laverde, Fernando; Schøtt, Thomas. 2021. "Sustainable Development Goals in strategy and practice: Businesses in Colombia and Egypt". Sustainability. 13(22), 12453, 15 pp; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132212453
Samsami, Mahsa; Wagner, Ralf. 2021. "Investment Decisions with Endogeneity: A Dirichlet Tree Analysis", Journal of Risk and Financial Management. 14(7), 299; 19 pp. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm14070299

Scientific publications

Mahsa, Samsami; El Kolaly, Hoda; Gonzalez-Pernia, Jose Luis; Boutaleb, Fatima (2024). Gender roles shaping the entrepreneurial mindset: embedded in the entrepreneurial ecosystem and impacted by the pandemic. European Journal of International Management. ISSN: 1751-6757. doi:10.1504/EJIM.2022.10060156.
Mahsa, Samsami; Peña Legazkue, Iñaki; Barakat, Shima (2024). The role of entrepreneurial ecosystems in reducing the gender gap of entrepreneurial intention and exit rates. European Journal of International Management. ISSN: 1751-6757. doi:10.1504/EJIM.2023.10060155.
Mahsa, Samsami; Schøtt, Thomas (2024). The spiral of innovation and digitalization: Innovation shaped by early and recent digitalization and shaping intended future adoption. International Reveiw of Entrepreneurship. ISSN: 2009-2822.
Širec, Karin; Mahsa, Samsami; Schøtt, Thomas (2023). Born Globals and Born Sustainables: Motives of Accumulating Wealth and of Making a Difference in the World. Organizacija (Journal of Management, Informatics and Human Resources). ISSN: 1318-5454. 56 (4). s 342 - 351. doi:10.2478/orga-2023-0023.
Mahsa, Samsami (2023). Business angels' ties with entrepreneurs in traditional and secular-rational societies: China, Egypt and Iran contrasted Germany and Norway. European Journal of International Management. ISSN: 1751-6757. 21 (2). s 234 - 255. doi:10.1504/EJIM.2023.133426.
Mahsa, Samsami; Tønnessen, Øystein; Flåten, Bjørn-Tore (2023). Entrepreneurial orientation confronting disruption: embedded in networks in Iran and Norway during the COVID-19 pandemic. European Journal of International Management. ISSN: 1751-6757. 21 (2). s 192 - 219. doi:10.1504/EJIM.2023.133427.
Mahsa, Samsami; Tønnessen, Øystein; Flåten, Bjørn-Tore (2022). Entrepreneurial orientation confronting disruption: Embedded in networks of enterprises in Iran and Norway during the COVID-19 pandemic. European Journal of International Management. ISSN: 1751-6757. doi:10.1504/EJIM.2022.10048400.
Mahsa, Samsami; Schøtt, Thomas (2022). Past, present, and future digitalization around the world: Leading, catching up, forging ahead, and falling behind. Naše gospodarstvo. ISSN: 0547-3101. 68 (3). s 1 - 9.
Mahsa, Samsami; Schøtt, Thomas (2021). Family and non-family business in Iran: Coupling among innovation, exporting, and growth-expectation. European Journal of Family Business (EJFB). ISSN: 2444-877X. 11 (2). s 40 - 45. doi:10.24310/ejfbejfb.v11i2.10444.
Mahsa, Samsami; Wagner, Ralf (2021). Investment decisions with endogeneity: A Dirichlet tree analysis. Journal of Risk and Financial Management. ISSN: 1911-8066. 14 (7). s 299. doi:10.3390/jrfm14070299.

Singer, Slavica; Šarlija, Nataša; Rebernik, Miroslav; Bradač Hojnik, Barbara; Mahsa, Samsami (2023). Entrepreneurship and Well-being: Exploring the UN Sustainable Development Goals through the lenses of GEM and other indicators. ISBN: 978-3-031-19180-0. Palgrave Macmillan Cham. s 188.

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