General Research Interests

Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Emerging Markets, Earnings Management, Corporate Development Strategy and FDI.

Journal Engagement

Associate Editor, Nankai Business Review International, (Emerald Group Publishing Limited)

Editorial Board:

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Journal of Accounting Studies - A Publication of the Accounting Society of China

Research Supervision

Currently supervises PhD students in the following areas:

‘Corporate Governance and Firm’s Performance in the UK and the US’
‘Capital Structure, Ownership and Firm’s Performance in the UK’
‘Executive Compensation and Earnings Management in the UK Listed Companies’‘Executive Compensation in Chinese Listed Firms’
‘Corporate Governance and Earnings Management in China’

She also supervises DBA supervision in the area of finance and accounting.

Selected Journal Articles

Chen, J.J. and Zhang, H., ‘The Impact of Regulatory Enforcement and Audit upon IFRS Compliance’, European Accounting Review, Vol.19(4), pp.665-692, 2010.

Chen, J.J., Liu, X and Li, W., ‘The Effect of Insider’s Control and Global Benchmarks on Chinese Executive Compensation’, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol.18(2), 2010.

Chen, J.J. and Cheng, P., ‘Related Party Transactions as a Source of Earnings Management’, Applied Financial Economics, Vol.21(3), pp.165-181, 2010.

Chen, J.J., Zhang, H. and Li, W., ‘Financial Crisis and Executive Remuneration in Banking Industry - An Analysis of Five British Banks’, Applied Financial Economics, forthcoming.

Chen, J.J. and Xiao, X., ‘Herd Behaviour of Chinese Mutual Funds’, International Review of Finance, Vol.8, 2007, Elsevier Science.

Chen, J.J. and Cheng, P., ‘The Impact of Regulatory Enforcement on Harmonization of Accounting Practices - Evidence from China’, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, pp.58-71, Vol.3, No.1, 2007.

Chen, J.J. and Cheng, P., ‘Corporate Governance and the Harmonisation of Chinese Accounting Practices with IFRS Practices’, Corporate Governance: An International Review, pp.284-293, Vol.15, No.2, 2007.

Chen, J.J. and Dimou, I., ‘Expansion Strategy of International Hotel Firms’, Journal of Business Research, 58(12), pp.1730-1740, Elsevier Science.

Chen, J.J., ‘Determinants of Capital Structure - Empirical Evidence from Chinese Company Panel Data’, Journal of Business Research, 57(12), pp.1341-1351, Elsevier Science.

Books

Davies, T and Chen, J.J., Strategic Corporate Finance, McGraw Hill, March 2008.

Balchin, P., Isaac, D. and Chen, J.J., Urban Economics: A Global Perspective, MacMillan, 2000 (ISBN0 0 333 77128 1) (This book has been translated into Chinese and published by Jilin People's Publishing House in PRC.).

Chen, J.J. and Wills, D., The Impact of China's Economic Reforms upon Land, Property and Construction, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, UK, April 1999 (ISBN 184014954X).

Chen, J.J. and Gong, S.X.H., ‘Corporate Governance and IPO In China’, in Global Perspectives on Corporate Governance and Initial Public Offerings, edited by Zattoni, A. and Judge, W., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Chen, J.J., 'Business Strategy and Financial Crisis: The Case of Northern Rock Bank,' in Strategic Management: Case Studies, edited by Costanzo, L.A., McGraw Hill, pp.93-108, McGraw-Hill, 2010 (ISBN 13: 9780077129651).

Chen, J.J., ‘Corporate Governance of Former Chinese SOEs’, in Challenges for China's Development: An Enterprise Perspective, edited by Brown, A. and MacBean, A., Routledge Curzon, 2005 (ISBN0-415-34133-7).

Conference Keynote Speeches and Plenary Session Presentations

Plenary Session Presentation, ‘Manager Talents, Corporate Governance and Benchmark Effect: The Determination of Executive Compensation in Chinese Listed Firms’, co-authored with Weian Li and Xuguang Liu, The 6th Annual Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics Symposium, Seoul, 4-5 January 2010.

Keynote Speech, ‘Financial Crisis and Corporate Governance in the UK’, The 5th International Symposium of Corporate Governance, jointly organised by the World Bank-OECD Global Corporate Governance Forum, Nankai University in China and Hong Kong Baptist University,China, September 5-6, 2009.

Keynote Speech, ‘Whether Has Corporate Governance Facilitated the Chinese Accounting Harmonisation?’, The 4th International Symposium of Corporate Governance, Tianjin, China, October 20-21, 2007.

Keynote Speech, ‘Development of Corporate Governance in the EU’, The International Workshop on EU Corporate Governance under the EU-China Special Projects Facilitate Programmes, China, March 20-21, 2006.

Plenary Session Presentation, ‘The 2001 Chinese Accounting Reforms and the Harmonisation of Chinese Accounting Practices with IFRS Practices’, co-authored with Peng Cheng, The 1st Annual Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics Symposium, Hong Kong, 6-7 January 2006.

External Examinations

- External Examiner, Brunel University

- External Examiner, The Association of International Accountants.

- External examiner of 3 MBA finance courses (Environment of International Finance; International Finance, Contemporary Issues in Finance), for the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, the University of the West Indies.