Peter Li

Visiting Professor, ESMT Berlin and Li Dak Sum Chair Professor of International Business, University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC)

Born in China and now a US citizen

Undergraduate

B.A., 1982, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China

Major: English and American Literatures

Postgraduate

Ph.D., 1991, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Major: International Business

Minors: Strategy Management & Project Management

Dissertation Title: Factor-Matching as the Key to Global Competition: The Case of Computer Firms in Korea and Taiwan

M.B.A., 1987, University of International Business and Economic, Beijing, China

Major: International Finance [Master Thesis Title: Multinational Banking System]

Research Summary

To conduct research and teaching in the inter-disciplinary and integrative domains of strategic management and international business, with a special focus on the theme of reevaluating the Western theories from the Eastern perspective and reconstructing those toward geocentric ones via an integration of the cultural perspectives of the East and the West (especially the Chinese philosophy of wisdom, including the ontology of ‘Tao” as the “Heaven-Human Harmony”, the epistemology of Yin-Yang Balancing as holistic, dynamic and duality, and the methodology of “Wu” as intuitive imagination, particularly valuable for creative cognition) and the evolutionary trajectories of the West and the East with the former as economic early-movers and the latter as economic latecomers (especially the Golden Rule of Balancing as the Eastern behavioral norm). This intercultural and multi-indigenous approach can result in geocentric theories as holistic, dynamic and duality.

Research Interests

The above central theme consists of eight sub-themes (from abstract to specific):

Chinese philosophy of wisdom and paradigm of creative exploration (悟 for ambiguity)

Yin-Yang Balancing (holistic, dynamic & duality for Golden Rule of Balancing (中庸)

Geocentric framework of context-firm-leader-strategy interplay [unity-in-diversity]

Nature & role of informal factors [intuition, trust, social capital, emotion & leadership]

Model of economic transition [indigenous formal-informal co-evolution]

Model of organizational process [learning trajectory of latecomers via disruption]

Implications of global-local balance [cross-border transaction value & second-home]

Implications of entrepreneurial leapfrogging [international strategic entrepreneurship]

The above eight sub-themes can be summarized in four key research questions: (1) what are the implications of East Asia’s indigenous philosophy (ontology, epistemology and methodology) for explaining the formal-informal and diversity-in-unity dualities for the geocentric integration; (2) what are the implications of its indigenous behavioral patterns of personalized instrumental-sentimental mixed ties for social-economic exchanges via trust for explaining thegeocentric paradigm of context-firm-leader-strategy interplay; (3) how do the emerging economies and their firmsas latecomers catch up in a path-jumping process and even leapfrog in a path-breaking process with disruptive innovation as a core mechanism of accelerated learning, and (4) how can the emerging multinational firms achieve competitive advantages via alliance for transaction value, especially in the context of international strategic entrepreneurship for entrepreneurial leapfrogging.

Publications

Books:

Disruptive Innovation in Chinese and Indian Businesses: The Strategic Implications for Local Entrepreneurs and Global Incumbents. Routledge (edited book, February 2013)

案例研究方法: 理论与范例--凯瑟琳艾森哈特论文集 (The Case Study Method: Selected Articles by Kathleen Eisenhardt), Beijing University Press (co-edited, June 2012).

Journal Articles:

Toward an Integrative Framework of Indigenous Research: The Geocentric Implications of Yin-Yang Balance. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 29 (4): 849-872, 2012. [SSCI: 3.1] [20 citations via Google Scholar]

When trust matters the most: The imperatives for contextualizing trust research. Journal of Trust Research, 2 (2): 101-106, 2012. [1 citation via Google Scholar]

The Contextual Antecedents of Organizational Trust: A Cross-Level Analysis. Management and Organizational Review, 8 (2): 371-396, 2012. Li, P.P., Bai, Y. & Xi, Y. [SSCI: 2.4] [3 citations via Google Scholar]

The Distinctive Effects of Dual-level Leadership Behaviors on Employees' Trust in Leadership: An Empirical Study from China. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 29 (1): 213-237, 2012 Bai, Y., Li, P.P. & Xi, Y. [SSCI: 3.1] [5 citations via Google Scholar]

Indigenous Research on Chinese Management: What and How. Management and Organizational Review, 8 (1): 7-24, 2012. Li, P.P., Leung, K., Chen, C.C. & Luo, J-D. [SSCI: 2.4] [7 citations via Google Scholar]

The Second Great Encounter in the New Era of Globalization: Why and How Should the West Meet the East? Journal of Trust Research, 2 (1): 1-5, 2012.

Exploring the Unique Roles of Trust and Play in Private Creativity: From the Complexity-Ambiguity-Metaphor Link to the Trust-Play-Creativity Link. Journal of Trust Research, 2 (1): 71-97, 2012. [5 citations via Google Scholar]

Toward an Integrative Multi-framing of Trust: Ambiguity Redefined. Journal of Trust Research, 1 (1): 133-138, 2011. [3 citations via Google Scholar]

The Rigor-Relevance Balance for Engaged Scholarship: New Frame and New Agenda for Trust Research and Beyond. Journal of Trust Research, 1 (1): 1-21, 2011. [9 citations via Google Scholar]

Learning Trajectory in Offshore OEM Cooperation: The Transaction Value for Local Suppliers in the Emerging Economies. Journal of Operations Management, 28 (3): 269-282, 2010. Li, Y., Li, P.P., Liu, Y. & Yang, D. [SSCI: 4.4] [13 citations via Google Scholar]

Toward a Learning-based View of Internationalization: The Accelerated Trajectories of Cross-Border Learning. Journal of International Management (Special issue: 50 Years of IB Research), 16 (1): 43-59, 2010. [SSCI: 1.7] [18 citations via Google Scholar]

The Duality of Crony Corruption in Economic Transition: Toward an Integrated Framework. Journal of Business Ethics, 85 (1): 41-55, 2009[SSCI: 1.0] [2 citations via Google Scholar]

Toward a Geocentric Framework of Trust: An Application to Organizational Trust. Management and Organization Review, 4 (3): 413-439, 2008. [SSCI: 2.4] [46 citations via Google Scholar]

Toward an Inter-disciplinary Conceptualization of Trust: A Typological Approach. Management and Organization Review, 3 (3): 421-445, 2007. [SSCI: 2.4] [32 citations via Google Scholar]

Toward an Integrated Theory of Multinational Evolution: The Evidence of Chinese Multinational Enterprises as Latecomers. Journal of International Management, 13 (3): 296-318, 2007. [SSCI: 1.7] [84 citations via Google Scholar]

Social Tie, Social Capital, and Social Behavior: Toward an Integrated Framework of Organized Exchange. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 24: 227-246, 2007. [SSCI: 3.1] [54 citations via Google Scholar]

The Puzzle of China’s Township-Village Enterprises: The Paradox of Local Corporatism in a Dual-track Economic Transition. Management and Organization Review, 1 (2): 197-224, 2005. [SSCI: 2.4] [40 citations via Google Scholar]

A Holistic Framework of E-business Strategy: The Case of Haier in China.Journal of Global Information Management, 12 (2): 44-62, 2004 (co-authored). [SSCI: 1.3] [20 citations via Google Scholar]

How to Succeed in E-Business by Taking the Haier Road: Formulating E-Business Strategy through Network Building.Competitiveness Review, 13 (2): 34-45, 2003. Li, P.P. & Chang, S. [26 citations via Google Scholar]

Toward a Geocentric Theory of Multinational Evolution: The Implications from the Asian MNEs as Latecomers. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 20 (2): 217-242, 2003. [SSCI: 3.1] [79 citations via Google Scholar]

The Asian Paradox of Miracle and Debacle: An Exploratory Study. International Finance Review, 1: 429-453, 2000. Li, P.P. & Chang, S. [3 citations via Google Scholar]

Strategic Financing for International Business Expansion. Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance, 4: 173-191, 2000. Chuang, C., Chang, T. & Li, P.P.

The Internationalization and Capital Structure of Taiwanese Multinationals. American Asian Review, 17 (4): 51-71. Chuang, C., Chang, T. & Li, P.P. [3 citations via Google Scholar]

Toward a Geocentric Framework of Organizational Form: A Holistic, Dynamic and Paradoxical Approach. Organization Studies, 19 (5): 829-861, 1998. [SSCI: 2.3] [71 citations via Google Scholar]

The Evolution of Multinational Enterprise from Asia: A Longitudinal Study of Taiwan's Acer Group. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 11 (4): 321-337, 1998. [SSCI: 0.7] [17 citations via Google Scholar]

The Unique Nature of International Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China: Implications for Theory-Building with Regard to Strategic Alliance. Advances in Chinese Industrial Studies, 5: 13-34, 1997 [7 citations via Google Scholar]

Strategic Profile of Indigenous MNEs from NIEs: Case of South Korea and Taiwan. The International Executive, 35 (2): 147-170, 1994 [29 citations via Google Scholar]

How National Context Influences Corporate Strategy: A Comparison of South Korea and Taiwan. Advances in International Comparative Management, 8: 55-78, 1993 [9 citations via Google Scholar]

The Indigenous Research on Chinese Leadership: Problems and Suggestions (in Chinese: 中国领导力本土化发展研究：现状分析与建议). Chinese Journal of Management (管理学报: co-authored), 2010, 7 (11): 136-141.

The Indigenous Research on Chinese Management: Conceptual Definition and Methodological Design (in Chinese: 中国管理本土研究：理念定义及范式设计). Chinese Journal of Management (管理学报), 2010, 7 (5): 633-642. [3 citations via Google Scholar]

The Duality Model of Alliance Learning in Supply Chain: The Transaction Value Perspective (in Chinese: 供应链联盟学习的双元模式：交易价值视角). Journal of Intelligence (情报杂志: co-authored), 2010, 3: 120-124. [4 citations via Google Scholar]

Book Chapters:

Toward the Geocentric Framework of Intuition: The Yin-Yang Balancing between the Eastern and Western Perspectives on Intuition. Handbook of Intuition Research Methodology (Edward Elgar Publishers), Marta Sinclair (Ed.), 2013 (forthcoming).

The Frame of Yin-Yang Balancing as the Root of Chinese Traditional Culture: The Indigenous Sources and Geocentric Implications. The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of Dialectical Thinking. Peng, K-P. & Spencer-Rodgers, J. (Eds.), 2013 (forthcoming).

The Duality Nature and Function of Social Capital in Asia. Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems, G. Redding & M. Witt (Eds.), Oxford University Press, 2013 (forthcoming).

Intercultural Trust and Trust-building Process. Handbook of Advances in Trust Research, R. Bachman & A. Zaheer (Eds.), Edward Elgar, 2013 (forthcoming)

Toward Research-Practice Balancing in Management: The Yin-Yang Method for Open-Ended and Open-Minded Research. Research Methodology in Strategy and Management (Vol. 8, West Meets East: Building Theoretical Bridges). C.L. Wang, D.J. Ketchen & D.D. Bergh (Eds.), Emerald, 2012, Chapter 4, 91-141.

An Integrative Framework of Inter-Partner Trust in Alliances: The Micro-Macro Meta-Emergence. Behavioral Perspectives on Strategic Alliances, T.K. Das (Ed.), Information Age Publishing, 2011, Chapter 6, 135-156.

Guanxi as the Chinese Norm for Personalized Social Capital: Toward an Integrated Duality Framework of Informal Exchange. Handbook of Research on Asian Business, Henry W. Yeung (Ed.), London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007, Chapter 4, 62-83. [15 citations via Google Scholar]

An Integrated Model in E-business Strategy: The Case of Haier from China. Advanced Topics in Global Information Management, Vol. 4, Gordon Hunter and Felix B. Tan (Eds.), Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2005, Chapter XV, 271-289 (co-authored with Steven Chang).

Chinese E-business Strategy: The Case Study of Haier. Chinese Economic Transition and International Marketing Strategy, Ilan Alon (Ed.), Westport, CT: Praeger, Chapter 4, 52-69, 2003 (co-authored).

The Effect of Property Rights on International Joint Ventures in China. Chinese Culture, Organizational Behavior, and International Business Management, Ilan Alon (Ed.), Westport, CT: Praeger, Chapter 13, 207-221, 2003 (co-authored).

The Evolution of Multinational Firms from Asia: A Longitudinal Study of Taiwan's Acer Group. Strategic Management in the Asia Pacific: Harnessing Regional and Organizational Change for Competitive Advantage, U.C.V. Haley (Ed.), Oxford, England: Butterworth-Heinemann, 474-491, 2000.

Strategic Profile of Indigenous MNEs from NIEs: Case of South Korea and Taiwan. The Globalization of Business Firms from Emerging Economies, Henry W. Yeung (Ed.), Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Vol. 1, Part IV, No. 28, 500-523, 2000.