Meng Wu 武萌
Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Strategy
Department of Strategy, Enterprise and Sustainability | Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
Themes of Research
Business, Financial, and Economic History of China.
Strategy, Management, and Corporate Governance.
Contact
Email: m.wu@mmu.ac.uk
Twitter: MengWu_EcoHis
University Profile: Dr Meng Wu | Manchester Metropolitan University (mmu.ac.uk)
I am a Lecturer (Research and Teaching) in the Department of Strategy, Enterprise, and Sustainability at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Business School. Prior to this role, I worked as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Manchester, a Fellow in Chinese Economic History at LSE (Teaching Focused), and an EHS Tawney Postdoc Fellow at the University of London. I graduated from the London School of Economics with a Ph.D. in Economic History.
My research delves into Chinese financial, economic, and business history. I employ qualitative and quantitative methodologies to scrutinize the long-run evolution of business and financial institutions. My work studies the internal dynamics of financial institutions, such as business strategies and governance structures. It explores the rise and fall of financial institutions under the sway of governmental policies, legal frameworks, and international commerce. I aim for my work to contribute to both scholarly understanding and public knowledge of China’s extensive history.
Recently, my paper, “Business Organisation, Personnel Management, and Governance Structure: A Study of the Shanxi Piaohao (Banks),” has been resubmitted to R&R (minor revision) for Business History (ABS journal ranking: 4). Based on extensive primary sources, my paper provides the first examination of the organizational form, personnel management, and governance structure of the Shanxi piaohao. Notably, this work has been featured in The Economist. My co-authored paper, “The Rise and Fall of Paper Money in Yuan China,” with Hanhui Guan (Peking University) and Nuno Palma (University of Manchester), was published in the Economic History Review (ABS journal ranking: 4). VoxEU column has featured this paper.
I embraced motherhood in 2017. This prompted me to transition into teaching-focused roles at LSE and the University of Manchester. Although these roles somewhat curtailed my research productivity quantitatively, they engendered qualitative growth by exposing me to diverse scholarly literature and kindling fresh research impetuses through the instruction of economic history courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Please refer to my CV for a comprehensive overview of my research, teaching, and academic citizenship.
