Dr ChunLei Yang

Biography

After spending 12 months as a post-doctoral research fellow, ChunLei joined Manchester Business School in August 2007 as a lecturer in Accounting. She obtained a PhD in Accounting and Finance in 2006 and an MSc in Accounting and Finance in 2002, both from the University of Manchester.

Before she came to Manchester, ChunLei obtained her undergraduate degree with distinction in international accounting from Beijing University of International Business and Economics. She then worked for China Trust and Investment Corporation as an investment project manager, stock market listing specialist and stock market analyst. She also worked with the World Bank as a senior project officer on "China state farm commercialisation project". She completed her exams and was certified as a China stock market analyst and trading specialist in 1999. In 2003, ChunLei received funding from China Scholarship Council to pursue a doctoral degree. As a PhD candidate, ChunLei developed a theoretical perspective on the process of financial management change and conducted an in-depth case study in a Chinese local government department. This has formed the starting point of her career as a researcher in management accounting.

Teaching and Research interests

ChunLei's current research interests include: Management accounting and organisational change, complexity and contradictions in the process of change,public sector financial reform, performance measurement. She adopts interpretive case study as the primary research methodology and is interested in developing methods that could help researchers understand and capture the complexity in everyday accouting practices.

So far ChunLei has produced two working papers currently under review and two conference papers out of her PhD, including:

R. Scapens and C. Yang, Pluralist Ontology: comments on Llewellyn (2007), Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, (under review)

R. Scapens and C. Yang, Chinese Public Finance Framework: A critical analysis, Finance Management and Accountability, ( under review)

R. Scapens and C. Yang, (2008) Chinese Public Finance Framework: A critical analysis, Manchester Business School working paper series

R. Scapens and C. Yang , Accounting for Agency: a conceptual framework, 2006 EIASM Conference Paper

C. Yang and R. Scapens, Comments and extensions on Ahrens and Chapman (2006): towards a processual expression of research field, 2007 EAA Conference Paper

Currently, she is working on the following papers:

C. Yang, (2008) The “Chinese” way—performance appraisal and personnel control in the Chinese government departments, Performance in context – Perspectives from management research, (eds) Thomas Gstraunthaler and Martin Messner,  Innsbruck University Press 

R. Scapens and C. Yang (2008), Chinese Public Finance Rreform: A Dielectical Perspective (paper in progress)

R. Scapens and C. Yang (2008), Accounting for agency: A conceptual framework

R. Scapens and C. Yang (2008),Capturing paradoxes and contradictions in the field: some methodological issues.