Charlene Chen

Dr. Charlene Chen serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance at Macquarie University, where her research enhances accounting quality, corporate governance, and social responsibility through stakeholder monitoring. Her work influences national regulators including the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), which has invited her to conduct specialized workshops on disclosure regulation.

Her research spans critical domains including accounting standards, corporate governance frameworks, social responsibility initiatives, earnings announcement dynamics, cybersecurity risk management, and business strategy impacts. Recent investigations examine how geopolitical tensions affect supply chain ethics, the role of auditors in cybersecurity, and regulatory influences on corporate financial decisions, reflecting her commitment to addressing real-world business challenges through empirical analysis.

Dr. Chen's 2025 publications reveal a strategic focus on emerging global issues: the intersection of business strategies and environmental sustainability, deglobalization effects on corporate social responsibility, cybersecurity disclosure practices, auditor responsibilities in digital risk management, and regulatory impacts on corporate cash holdings. These works demonstrate methodological diversity including textual analysis of risk disclosures and cross-jurisdictional studies of US-China supply chains.

Her scholarly excellence has been recognized through multiple awards:

• Best Paper Award (2011)
• Best Paper Award (2013)
• Outstanding Paper Award (2011)

Dr. Chen has secured significant research funding including a CPA Australia grant supporting her work on accounting quality. She leads the active project 'Deterrent Effects of Disclosure Regulation Enforcements' and has completed projects including 'Thomson Reuters Global Ownership Database', 'Exploration Intensity and Analyst Forecast Bias', and a PhD thesis on 'Australian Evidence on the Accuracy of Financial Analysts' Earnings Forecasts'. Her professional engagement includes invited presentations for ASIC and academic forums on publishing in top-tier journals.