Research areas

Corporate governance; Financial and non-financial reporting; Corporate finance.

Biography

Lingwei Li is a Lecturer of Accounting. Her research interests are centred in corporate governance, financial and non-financial reporting, and corporate finance. Lingwei’s work on topics including proxy voting, mergers and acquisitions, board of director behaviour and corporate innovation appears in international outlets including Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Journal of Business Research, European Financial Management, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Accounting & Finance, and Australian Journal of Management.

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Grants

2016, Best Paper Award in Applied Corporate Finance at the 2016 Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting.

Publications

• Ma, Y. and Li, L., 2025. M&A committees and M&A performance. Journal of Business Research, 188, 115119.
• Chen, L., Li, L. and Wee, M., 2025. Pilot CEOs and corporate cash holdings. European Financial Management.
• Li, L., Liu, L. and Wu, H., 2022. Workforce education and corporate innovation. Australian Journal of Management, 47(4), pp.599-629.
• Li, L. and Zhang, H., 2021. The devil is in the detail? Investors’ mispricing of proxy voting outcomes on M&A deals. Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 48(3-4), pp.692-717.
• Daniliuc, S., Li, L. and Wee, M., 2021. Busy directors and firm performance: a replication and extension of Hauser (2018). Accounting & Finance, 61, pp.1415-1423.
• Daniliuc, S.O., Li, L. and Wee, M., 2020. Busy directors and firm performance: Evidence from Australian mergers. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 64, 101434.

Research engagement

Editorial Board member, The International Journal of Accounting

Teaching

BUSN7054 Auditing and Assurance Services