Maryam Zomorrodi

Dr Maryam Zomorrodi

Lecturer

School of Management

College of Business and Law

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Maryam is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management. She has earned her PhD from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia in 2020. Maryam has a multi-disciplinary research interest in Operations & Supply Chain Management, and Sustainability with the emphasis on subsistence markets/base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) business operations, and poverty alleviation. Maryam has taught various courses at Australian and Canadian universities and received excellent student feedback on her teaching methods. She has expertise in qualitative research methodologies and her work has been published in top international journals. Prior to entering academia, Maryam has worked in various NGOs in the area of humanitarian aid operations.

  • Sustainable Operations
  • Supply Chain Management at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP)
  • Operations Management in Social Enterprise
  • Social Procurement
  • Inclusive Businesses and Poverty Alleviation

Year Citation
2025 Fayezi, S., & Zomorrodi, M. (2025). Navigating the multiplicity of sustainability policies in agribusiness supply networks: The role of policy brokers and advocates. Food Policy, 136(102973), 102973-1-102973-13.
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2024 Zomorrodi, M., Fayezi, S., & Bals, L. (2024). Base of the Chain (BoC) Sourcing Challenges: The Role of Institutional Voids and Social Agency Problems. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 30(5, article no. 100953), 100953-1-100953-19.
DOI Scopus6 WoS5
2024 Dubey, R., & Zomorrodi, M. (2024). Controlling and Monitoring the Construction of Floating Structures Projects. Accepted.
2022 Zomorrodi, M., & Fayezi, S. (2022). Legitimacy contexts of BoP markets: characterization and implications for supply chain functions. Sustainability, 14(2, article no. 920), 14 pages.
DOI Scopus2
2019 Zomorrodi, M., Fayezi, S., Lau, K. H., & McMurray, A. (2019). Supply chain adaptations for the base-of-the-pyramid business: towards a theoretical model. International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 49(5), 599-624.
DOI Scopus22 WoS20
2018 Fayezi, S., Zomorrodi, M., & Bals, L. (2018). Procurement sustainability tensions: an integrative perspective. International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 48(6), 586-609.
DOI Scopus38 WoS33
2015 Fayezi, S., & Zomorrodi, M. (2015). The role of relationship integration in supply chain agility and flexibility development: An Australian perspective. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 26(8), 1126-1157.
DOI Scopus57 WoS42
2011 Mikolajczyk, S. D., Millar, L. S., Tsinberg, P., Coutts, S. M., Zomorrodi, M., Pham, T., . . . Pircher, T. J. (2011). Detection of EpCAM-Negative and Cytokeratin-Negative Circulating Tumor Cells in Peripheral Blood. JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY, 2011, 10 pages.
DOI WoS213

Year Citation
2024 Dubey, R., Zomorrodi, M., & Gunawan, I. (2024). Risks Management of Floating Structure Projects. In Proceedings of the Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN). Adelaide.
2023 Tran, H. N. T., Fayezi, S., Zomorrodi, M., & Agarwal, A. (2023). Leveraging network orchestration to address modern slavery risks in the supply chain track: Operations, logistics and supply chain management. In BAM2024 at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University. Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham: UK.
2020 Zomorrodi, M., & Fayezi, S. (2020). Unpacking Base-of-the-Pyramid Sourcing Challenges: Moving Beyond Institutional Factors. In Academy of Management Proceedings. Vancouver, Canada: Academy of Management.
2019 Zomorrodi, M., Lau, K. H., McMurray, A., & Fayezi, S. (2019). Sourcing from the Base of the Pyramid markets: An integrative perspective. In Academy of Management Proceedings Vol. 2019 (pp. 17037). Academy of Management.
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2019 Foster, M. C., Fedoriw, Y., Pulley, W., Zeidner, J., Coombs, C. C., Mirkin, E., . . . Armistead, P. M. (2019). Detection of Measurable Residual Disease (MRD) in Peripheral Blood: First Report of a Novel Microfluidic Platform in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). In BLOOD Vol. 134 (pp. 4 pages). FL, Orlando: ELSEVIER.
DOI WoS1
2019 Muller, R., Toughiri, R., Bartakova, A., Diaz, P., Carson, C., Armistead, P., . . . Muller-Cohn, J. (2019). A microfluidic platform to capture and detect cancer cells in Leukemia patients. In CANCER RESEARCH Vol. 79 (pp. 2 pages). GA, Atlanta: AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH.
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2019 Muller, R., Purushotham, S., Diaz, P., Bartakova, A., Muller-Cohn, J., Lu, J., . . . Chen, C. (2019). Detection of CTCs from whole blood of lung cancer patients using the automated Liquid Scan. In CANCER RESEARCH Vol. 79 (pp. 2 pages). GA, Atlanta: AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH.
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2018 Zomorrodi, M., Lau, K. H., McMurray, A., & Fayezi, S. (2018). Adapting supply chains for the base of the pyramid business. In Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute 2018.
2017 Zomorrodi, M., Lau, C., & McMurray, A. (2017). The Impact of Institutional Voids on Sourcing from Base of the Pyramid: An Exploratory Study. In EurOMA 2017, Proceedings (pp. 10 pages). Edinburgh, Scotland.
2011 Mikolajczyk, S. D., Millar, L. S., Zomorrodi, M., Bischoff, F. Z., Scoggin, J., Tam, P., . . . Pircher, T. J. (2011). Fluorescence labeling of cytokeratin-negative circulating tumor cells in peripheral blood: A new paradigm for the study of cancer progression. In CANCER RESEARCH Vol. 71 (pp. 2 pages). AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH.
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2010 Williams, M., Pircher, T., Zomorrodi, M., Mikolajczyk, S., & Kamat, A. (2010). RECOVERY OF CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS IN UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA CELL LINES UTILIZING A NOVEL ANTIBODY BASED MICROFLUIDIC CELL CAPTURE TECHNIQUE. In JOURNAL OF UROLOGY Vol. 183 (pp. E379). ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC.
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Year Citation
2016 Zomorrodi, M. (2016). Procurement Process in the Base of the Pyramid Markets. Poster session presented at the meeting of 6th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM). Anaheim, CA.

ABLE New Horizon grant    2025   $5,500

FAME Sustainability grant   2023-2025   $94,278

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2023 Co-Supervisor Modern Slavery in the Supply Chain: A network perspective Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Hanh Tran

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