April 16, 2014 LING YANG Assistant Professor Dept. of Leadership and Organization Management School of Economics and Management Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 Tel: 86-10-62795964 Fax: 86-10-62772021 Email: [email protected] EDUCATION Stanford University, Stanford, USA. Ph.D. in Sociology 2012 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. M.A. in Sociology 2006 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. B.A. in Chinese literature. Excellent Graduate 2003 RESEARCH AREAS Organization Theory and Economic Sociology Research line 1: Small and Medium Enterprises in China, with focuses on contractual relationships and firm borrowing Research line 2: The diffusion of new organizational forms in China’s private sector; the emergence of business elites in China’s private enterprises Research line 3: Corporate social responsibility in the global context Research line 4: Innovation and entrepreneurship from sociological perspectives TEACHING AREAS General management, Organization Theory, Organizational Change DISSERTATION Dissertation Committee: Andrew G. Walder (co-chair), Xueguang Zhou (co-chair), Mark Granovetter, Walter W. Powell The Chinese Export Toy Industry in a Time of Crises, 2008 - 2010: Transnational Labor Certification, Subcontracting Strategies, and State-Business Relationship PUBLICATIONS Thornton, Patricia H. and Ling Yang. 2012. “Entrepreneurship.”In Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology. Ed. Jeff Manza. New York: Oxford University Press. Yang, Ling and Xueguang Zhou. 2009. “Transaction Costs, Social Institutions, and the Duration Yang 1/2 of Interfirm Contracts in China.” In Work and Organizations in China. Lisa Keister, ed. Research in the Sociology of Work 19:71–106. Yang, Ling. 2009. “Review: Political Process of Social Movement.” Reviewed work: Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency (1930-1970) by Douglas McAdam. Sociological Studies (in Chinese) 1:230–241. FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Larry Yung Fellowship, Stanford University 2009-2012 Sociological Research Opportunity Grant, Department of Sociology, Stanford 2009 Department of Sociology Fellowship, Stanford University 2006-2007 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Yang, Ling. “Risk Sharing in Interfirm Contractual Relationships among Chinese Firms.”Presented at the Seventh Graduate Seminar on China at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. January 5-8th, 2011, Hong Kong. Yang, Ling and Xueguang Zhou.“Risk Sharing in Interfirm Contractual Relationships among Chinese Firms.” Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Regular Session on Economic Sociology, August 8th, 2009, San Francisco. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Academy of Management, American Sociological Association, International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) Yang 2/2 .