Dr. Tianyuan Yu

Biography

Tianyuan Yu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business and Tourism at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Canada. She holds a PhD in Management from Sun Yat-Sen University, China and has been doing her second PhD in Management at Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University since 2015. Tianyuan possesses extensive teaching experiences both in Canada and in China. Prior to joining the Mount, She worked as a full-time Assistant Professor (term position) as well as in various part-time teaching positions at Saint Mary’s University during 2013-2016. Before coming to Canada, she was an Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Business Administration at Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai during 2003-2013 and won many awards for her teaching excellence. Tianyuan’s research interests include cross-cultural management, management and organization history, Chinese philosophy and religions, multi-paradigm study, international political economy, diversity and gender study. She is particularly interested in conducting interdisciplinary, multi-paradigm research in cross-cultural studies, informed by the rich cultural heritage of Chinese history and philosophies (e.g., Zen Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism). She is currently engaged in a multi-paradigm analysis of the autobiographies written by Pan Am Airway’s Representatives in China during 1930s-1940s, applying the positivist construct of cultural intelligence, and the postcolonial notions of ambivalence and hybridity. Her research agenda also includes a project on measuring the student experience of post-secondary internationalization initiatives in order to explore educational interventions that truly enhance students’ cross-cultural experiences. Tianyuan is dedicated to promoting intercultural communication and cross-cultural education because of her research interests and cross-cultural experiences. She is passionate for advancing mutual understandings between China and the West, and searching for an innovative, hybrid way of rethinking knowledge of management and organization studies that crosses geo-political borders.

Research Interest

Cross-cultural management, management and organization history, Chinese philosophy and religions, multi-paradigm study, international political economy, diversity and gender study