Dr Stanley Yap is a Lecturer in the Business Innovation Department at RMIT University Vietnam. He was a Senior Lecturer of Finance in the School of Economics and Management at Xiamen University Malaysia and an Adjunct Lecturer at two universities in China. He also serves as an Associate Research Fellow of the Institute of China Studies at the University of Malaya, and the Institute of ASEAN Studies at Guangxi University of Nationalities.
Before joining the academic world, he has more than ten years of corporate working experiences in business and financial management where he hold senior managerial roles in several industries such as telecommunication, mineral exploration and mining, palm oil plantation and processing, and B2B2C e-commerce sectors across Asia-Pacific markets.
Awards & recognitions
• Associate Research Fellow, Institute of ASEAN Studies, Guangxi University of Nationalities (2019 – Present).
• Associate Research Fellow, Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya (2016 – Present).
Research fields
3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
4609 Information systems
4610 Library and information studies
5201 Applied and developmental psychology
3501 Accounting, auditing and accountability
3503 Business systems in context
3509 Transportation, logistics and supply chains
4201 Allied health and rehabilitation science
4207 Sports science and exercise
Academic positions
Senior Lecturer
Xiamen University
, Malaysia
2017 – 2020
Part-time Lecturer
Chartered Institute of Technology
, Singapore
2016 – 2017
Non-academic positions
Analytical Finance Manager
Averis
, Malaysia
2016 – 2017
General Manager/Head of Commercial
Vista Mining
, Malaysia
2013 – 2016
Senior Project Finance Manager
Huawei Technologies South Pacific
, Malaysia
2010 – 2013
Assistant Business Development Manager
Webse
, Malaysia
2009 – 2010
Sales Executive
JustPC
, Malaysia
2002 – 2004
Teaching interests
Economics, Finance.
Research interests
Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
Business economics
Corporate finance
Corporate social responsibility and governance
Sustainability
China and the world economy