Dr Hassan Yazdifar
- Senior Lecturer (Accounting and Finance)
email: Hassan.Yazdifar@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests
Main:
- Management accounting and changing management accounting practices;
- Management accounting in developing and less developed countries;
- Diffusion of management accounting innovations;
- Changing roles of the accountant and the finance function;
- The future of accounting and other business-oriented education;
- The role of accounting/accountant in the processes of mergers and acquisitions;
- Organisational change (mergers and acquisitions) and change implementation;
- Institutional theories; Evolutionary economic theories;
- Research methodology and qualitative research methods in organisation studies
Secondary:
- Research thinking and thinking research at the post-graduate level
Biography
Hassan is a senior lecturer at Glasgow University Business School. Prior to joining Glasgow University in 2011, he held academic position at Sheffield University and has taught at several other universities in the UK (i.e., the universities of Manchester and UMIST) and overseas. He has experience of higher education on other countries such as Greece, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine. He is also regularly invited to teach at managerial levels in the UK and other countries.
Hassan gained a BA in accounting at the University of Shahid Beheshti (Iran), 1988, an MA in accounting at the university of Tehran (Iran), 1992, an MA in Social Research Methods at the University of Manchester (UK), 1999, and a PhD in Management Accounting titled: "Insight into the Dynamics of Management Accounting Systems Implementation in Group (Dependent) Organizations" from the university of Manchester (UK), 2004.
Hassan´s professional qualifications includes: Certified public accountant (CPA Iran); Certified Expert of Iranian Judiciary Professional Association (Iran), Certificate in Academic Teaching (Sheffield University). He is a member of European Accounting Association (EAA), European Network on the Economics of the Firm (ENEF), British Accounting Association (BAA), Management Control Association (MCA), European Network for Research of Organizational and Accounting Change (ENROAC), Iranian Professional Accountants (Iran).
He acts as an academic referee for a number of journals, publishers, and professional bodies.
Hassan has also facilitated several seminars.
Hassan has received grants from Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and other institutions for his studies in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the Middle East.
Hassan supervises a number of doctoral students in management accounting and control systems in developing and less developed countries.
Current PhD Students
Jamaliah Abdul Majid
Thesis title: Accounting choice of goodwill impairment after the implementation of IFRS 3: evidence from Malaysian listed companies
Email: j.abdulmajid.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Azam Mazraei Farahani
Thesis title: Comparative studies of modern management control systems and their implementation in private and public organizations in developing countries.
E-mail: a.farahani@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Redha Jawad (successfully defended his thesis in 2011)
Thesis title: The Influence of Management Control Systems (MCS) on Organizational Capabilities of Learning, Innovation and Trust and on Performance
E-mail: redha@squ.edu.om
Post-Doctoral Student
Yusuf VolkanTopuz
v_topuz@hotmail.com
Hassan has taught on a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. At present, he is teaching financial and management accounting; Management Accounting L2; Qualitative Research at PhD level; and financial and management accounting for EMBA students.
Hassan has been a consultant for many manufacturing and service enterprises in the UK and abroad, in management accounting and information systems, change programme implementation, mergers and acquisitions. He is acting as external examiner for Nottingham Trent University – Business School, and also examiner for Paper 3 Management Accounting 1 for Association of International Accountants (AIA).