Dr Pingli Li PhD, MSc, BSc
Associate Professor of Accounting, Director of PhD Programmes
Dr Pingli Li is an associate professor of accouting and the Director of PhD Porgrammes at Southampton Business School.
She has taken the roles of programme and module leader, and taught the modules of management accounting, corporate finance, financial statement analysis, and international accounting at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Pingli’s research interests include management control systems and organizational change, the institutionalization of management accounting practices, the use of management control techniques in private and public sector organizations, 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, Management Accounting Research (UK) and ABACUS. She has successfully completed a number of externally funded research projects. Currently she has been working on the projects on the governance and management of public hospitals, and the evolving roles of management control systems and management accountants.
She is the editorial board member of the Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management (ISSN: 1176-6093, Emerald) and Journal of Management Accounting Studies (China), and have acted as a reviewer for British Journal of Management, Accounting Education: an international journal, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, and a variety of international conferences, such as Annual Meeting of America Accounting Association and Academy of Management.
Pingli welcomes PhD applications in her research areas.
Prior to joining the University of Southampton in September 2014, Pingli held academic positions at Middlesex University (UK) and Beijing Technology & Business University (China).
She has acted as the external examiner at other univeristies in the UK, such as at Cranfield University for MBA and MSc in Management programme (2016-2019), and Open Univerisity for Undergraduate Management Accounting Module Group (2017-2020).