Dr Pingli Li | Southampton Business School

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Pingli’s research interests include management control systems and organizational change, the institutionalization of management accounting practices, the use of management control techniques in Chinese State-owned Enterprises and the public sector, the roles of independent directors in listed companies, and environmental performance and corporate governance. In addition to the publications in a number of Chinese accounting journals, her recent publications appear in British Journal of Management and Management Accounting Research (UK). She has successfully completed a number of externally funded research projects.

Pingli welcomes PhD applications in the above areas.

Research Projects

"Management Accounting Theoretical Framework and Practice Guidance for Public Sectors’, 2017, commissioned by the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China (2015KJA007), and collaborated with Prof Xuegang Cui (Beijing Normal University).

“The Use of Management Accounting Techniques in the Public Hospitals in China”, 2016-2017, commissioned by the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China (2015KJA007), and collaborated with Prof Xuegang Cui (Beijing Normal University) and Ms YuanYuan Xu (Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences).

Xue, B. and Li, P. (2016-2017). “The relationship between multi-dimensional environmental performance, corporate governance, and corporate financial performance: an investigation of UK companies”, Southampton Business School.

Li, P., Tang, G., and Dai, Lu. (2015 -2017). "Strategic controls in Chinese business groups – a longitudinal case study”, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). (as PI)

Li, P., Tang, G. (2011-2012 ). “Evolution of Performance Evaluation system in Chinese central SOEs: motives, actors’ interactions and effects”, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) (as PI)

Li, P., and Croucher, R. (2011). “Chinese Cities: Internal Issues and External Perspectives: A one-day workshop for City, Culture and Society”, Osaka City University, (as PI)

Li, P., Tang, G. and Chen, G. (2009-2010). “Control of international joint ventures involving Chinese partners--- evidence from automobile industry”, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), (as PI)

Tang, G., Li, P. and Chen, G. (2008-2010). “The comparative study of the control of international joint venture in China”, the National Nature Science Foundation of China.

Tang, G., Li, P. and Chen, G. (2005-2007). “Corporate budgeting: planning and control”. The World Bank. (as PI)

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Articles

Li, P., Tang, G., Okano, H., & Gao, C. (2013). The characteristics and dynamics of management controls in IJVs: evidence from a Sino-Japanese case. Management Accounting Research, 24(3), 246-260. DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2013.04.002
Li, P., Parsa, S., Tang, G., & Xiao, J. (2012). Is there an expectations gap in the roles of independent directors? An explorative study of listed Chinese companies. British Journal of Management, 23(2), 206-222. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2010.00727.x
Li, P., & Tang, G. (2009). Performance measurement design within its organisational context — evidence from China. Management Accounting Research, 20(3), 193-207. DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2009.04.002

Conferences

Hoang, G. V., Broad, M., Li, P., & Bui, H. T. M. (2017). Exploration of factors influencing civil servants' job performance culture in Vietnam. Paper presented at The Role of Public Governance in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals, Seoul, Korea, Republic of.
Hoang, G. V., Broad, M., & Li, P. (2017). Paradox of entanglement affecting Vietnamese civil servants' job performance: A grounded theory approach. Paper presented at Centre for Research in Accounting, Accountability and Governance, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Li, P., Tang, G., & Dai, L. (2017). Strategy and management control in embracing market-political paradox: the case during institutional transitions in emerging economies. In EURAM 2017 European Academy of Management.
Xue, B., Li, P., & Zhang, Z. (2017). The relationship between multi-dimensional environmental performance and firm value and risk. Paper presented at European Financial Management Symposium 2017, Xiamen, China.
Xue, B., Zhang, Z., & Li, P. (2016). The relationship between multi-dimensional environmental performance and corporate financial performance: an investigation of UK companies. Paper presented at International GARI Conference: The Globalization of Corporate Governance: Does Compliance Kill Values and Enterprise?, United Kingdom.
Dai, L., Li, P., & Zhi, X. (2015). The institutionalization of management accounting change: an observation across societal, organizational field, and organizational levels. Paper presented at British Accounting & Finance Association (BAFA) in Emerging Economies Special Interest Group Workshop (AFEE), United Kingdom.
Dai, T., Li, P., & Tang, G. (2013). The use of MCS in managing strategic change – how to balance the balance. Paper presented at Management Accounting Research Group Conference, .

Reports

Li, P., Tang, G., & Dai, N. T. (2012). Economic value added adoption in Chinese SOEs-a case of evolutionary change. London, GB: Chartered Global Management Accountant.
Li, P., Tang, G., Okano, H., & Gao, C. (2011). Management controls in automotive international joint ventures involving Chinese parent companies. (Research Executive Summary Series; No. 7:9). London, GB: Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Currently Pingli teaches MANG6027 Management Accounting (2) and MANG3006 Management Accounting (3)

Dr Pingli Li
Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

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Dr Pingli Li PhD, MSc, BSc

Associate Professor in Accounting