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Alireza Nazarian
Alireza Nazarian (born 19 June 1977)is an Iranian-British Organizational Studies scholar, well known for his research on cross-cultural management and organisations. He finished his PhD in Management Studies at Brunel University in London, UK. His doctoral thesis focuses on culture-effectiveness relationship and impact of leadership style as the mediator and national culture and organisational size as moderators on culture-effectiveness relationship in private sector organisations. He has developed a wide range of research interests including business management, cross-cultural studies and HRM. Furthermore, he has developed research skills within different research areas for using various research approaches from quantitative and qualitative to mixed methods. His current research interest is to use his mixed research background in business, international business and cultural studies to enhance different managerial functions within organisations locally and globally. He is interested in looking at the behavioural, organisational, and managerial aspects of different management functions within various types of organisations. In particular, he is interested in the following main research themes: 1-	Organisational studies and organisational change 2-	Cross-cultural studies (national and organisational culture) 3-	Leadership studies and development through cultural changes 4-	Organisational effectiveness and performance

Biography
Born to Hamid and Sorya, Alireza Nazarian attended school in Tehran and received his high school diploma in 1995. in 2000 he graduated from Mazandaran University of Technology and Science in Babol with BSc in Industrial Engineering. In 2001 he first moved the Republic of Ireland and in January 2002 move to the UK to pursue his MSc and PhD. In 2004 he joined Bristol University Economic Department to do MSc in Economics, Finance and Management and received his MSc in 2005. After working in different Universities and Colleges for six years in London, Alireza entered full-time doctoral study at Brunel University London in 2011 and received his PhD in Management study in 2013. His Thesis was titled "The Mediating Influence of Leadership Style and Moderating Impact of National Culture and Organisational Size on the Culture-Effectiveness Relationship: The Case of Iran."