Claire Deng is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Ted Rogers School of Management. Her teaching interests are in management accounting. Her educational background includes laws, cultural and religious studies, and accounting (from Peking University, McGill University, and York University’s Schulich School of Business). She is trained in and has been conducting both qualitative and quantitative accounting research. Her main area of research is qualitative field studies from sociological and philosophical perspectives. Her research on the roles that accounting and accountability play in our society ranges from accounting in corporations, accounting for the public interest, to accounting for individuals’ everyday life. Deng’s works are interdisciplinary in nature that involve approaches from anthropology, sociology, history, linguistics, and literary theories.
Management Accounting and Control; Sustainability; Accounting for the Public Interest (e.g., healthcare, modern slavery); Qualitative Field Methods; Material Semiotics; etc.
Deng, C., Kanagaretnam, K., & Zhou, Z. (2020). Do Locally Based Independent Directors Reduce Corporate Misconduct? Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms. Journal of International Accounting Research, 19(3), 61-90.
Smirnow, D. & Deng, C. (2023). Mandatory Disclosure as Calculative Spaces: Public Sector Accountability on Restoring Species at Risk. Accounting Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3838.12348
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Research Grants
SSHRC Insight Grant, 2022-2026. Principal Investigator. Project: “Management
Accounting and Control for Conservation: The Recovery of Species at Risk in Canada.” $82,113.
CPA Ontario Post-Secondary Institutions Funding Program, 2022-2023. Principal Investigator. Projects: “Undocumented Migrants and Healthcare: Accounting as Territorializing Strategies for Everyday Life.”
Ted Rogers School of Management Matching Funds Grant, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2021. Principal investigator. Project: “Constituting International Supply Chains: The Coalition of Management Control Technology and Network.”
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grants, 2020-2025. Collaborator (Principal Investigator: Lily Cho). Project: “Asian Values: Fictions of Finance in Postcolonial and Diasporic Asia.”
CPA Ontario Post-Secondary Institutions Funding Program, 2019. Co-investigator. Project: “Mandatory Disclosure as Calculative Spaces: Public Sector Accountability on Restoring Species at Risk” and “Rethinking Accountability to Animals.”
The CPA Canada-CAAA Management Accounting, Performance Management, Finance, Governance and Strategy Research Grant, 2018. Principal investigator. Project: “Constituting International Supply Chains: The Coalition of Management Control Technology and Network.”
