Xiao Zezhong elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

Xiao Zezhong, a senior council member of the Chinese Economic Association

UK/Europe, was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2026.

His research has advanced understanding of how institutions, political ideology

and culture interact with accounting and corporate governance in transitional

economies such as China. His work has appeared in Accounting, Organizations and

Society, among other journals, and covers the tension between international and

domestic accounting standards, accounting change under shifting institutional

logics, and the practical operation of corporate governance mechanisms. Public

statistics indicate that between 1978 and 2008 his papers on Chinese accounting

ranked among the highest internationally for both output and quality.

He has also contributed to the discipline's infrastructure. He was co-editor of

the British Accounting Review, the flagship journal of the British Accounting

and Finance Association, from 2021 to 2025, and was founding co-editor of the

China Journal of Accounting Studies from 2009 to 2015. He is currently an

associate editor of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and of

Abacus, has edited special issues for several international journals, and has

written for professional bodies including ICAEW, ICAS and CIMA.

Based on the association's original WeChat announcement of 11 September 2026.