Profile
Roles:
Biography:
Dr Zezeng Li is a Lecturer in Accounting and joined the School of Business and Management in 2021. Zezeng earned a PhD in Accounting from University of Exeter, an MSc in Accounting Accountability and Financial Management in King’s College London, and a Bacholar’s degree in International Accounting at China. During his PhD studies, he worked as a teaching assistant for various modules in Accounting and Finance. Zezeng’s current research activity involves investigation of pension de-risking strategies and their impact on the companies and pension fund.
Google Scholar page:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=TWvA3E0AAAAJ
Teaching
Undergraduate:
BUS224: International Corporate Reporting
BUS021: Financial Accounting
Postgraduate:
MSc dissertation supervision
Zezeng is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Research
Research Interests:
- Financial Accounting
- Pension Accounting
- Corporate governance of pension fund
Zezeng’s current research broadly looks into pension accounting, corporate finance perspective of pension fund, corporate governance. In particular, his research interest focus on what is the effect of pension de-riskings strategies on firm risk and pension risk. He has investigated the relationship between corporate governance of sponsoring firm and pension de-risking strategies. In addition to the research on firm with defined benefit pension fund, he has joint project on environmental, social and governance on pension investments and business ethics.
Centre and Group Membership:
Member of Accounting & Accountability Research Group (AARG)
Member of Behavioural Finance Working Group (BFWG)
Publications
- Li, Z., & Cowton, C. J. (2023). Defined benefit pension de-risking strategy: determinants of pension buy-ins. In Accounting Forum (Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 123-145). Routledge.
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2021.2024011
- Li, Z., & Kara, A. (2022). Pension de-risking choice and firm risk: Traditional versus innovative strategies. International Review of Financial Analysis, 81, 102064.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102064
- Zheng, C., Li, Z. and Wu, J. (2022), Tourism Firms’ Vulnerability to Risk: The Role of Organizational Slack in Performance and Failure. Journal of Travel Research, 1-47. (Accepted/In press)
- Li, Z. and Al‐Najjar, B. (2022), Impact of Board Composition on Pension De‐risking Strategies. British Journal Management. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12501
- Kilincarslan, E., Elmagrhi, M.H. and Li, Z. (2020), Impact of governance structures on environmental disclosures in the Middle East and Africa, Corporate Governance, Vol. 20 No. 4, pp. 739-763. https://doi.org/10.1108/CG-08-2019-0250
Note: For more recent publication, please refer to my google scholar page.
Supervision
Areas of Supervision Expertise:
Dr Li welcomes prospective PhD students who are interested in an area of capital market based accounting and corporate governance of pension fund.
Current Doctoral Students
Co-supervisor
Hussein Ahmad Mousa Bataineh, 'The Impact of the Chief Sustainability Officer on Pension Asset Allocation’
