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Prof. Peter Li

Prof. Peter Li

George Washington University, USA Professor of Chinese Business Studies at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Li Dak Sum Chair Professor of International Business at the University of Nottingham at Ningbo China, Tenured Professor of Management at Califor

ModuleInnovation Strategy for Corporate Expansion
Teaching ProgrammePgDip in Enterprise Expansion & Risk ManagementPgDip in Innovative Marketing & Agile OrganisationPgDip in Organisational Development and Change Management
StreamPostgraduate Diploma Programmes for Senior Executives

Peter Ping Li (PhD, 1991, George Washington University, USA) is Professor of Chinese Business Studies at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He used to be the Li Dak Sum Chair Professor of International Business at the University of Nottingham at Ningbo China (UNNC), also the tenured Professor of Management at California State University, and Professor of International Business at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China. He also once served as the Research Director for the Greater China Region of US-based Center for Creative Leadership (CCL).

His primary research focus is on building geocentric (West-meeting-East) theories from the cultural and historical perspectives, especially applying the Chinese philosophy of wisdom to the development of holistic, dynamic and duality theories. He has been widely recognized as one of the global thought leaders in two fastest emerging research streams: (1) multinational firms from emerging economies, and (2) indigenous research on the Chinese management

He has published 150 articles in journals (92 in academic journals, including 67 in English journals and 25 in Chinese journals; also 58 articles in practice-oriented Chinese journals); 20 book chapters (most in English books), and 5 books (2 in English and 3 in Chinese). He serves on the editorial boards of several major management journals, i.e., Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Discovery, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Management, Global Strategy Journal, and Cross-Cultural & Strategic Management. He is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Trust Research, the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Management and Organization Review, and the former Senior Editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Management and Management and Organization Review. He has been a guest editor for several special issues of three academic journals, including Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Management and Organization Review, and Cross-Cultural and Strategic Management.

Finally, he is on the extended senior term of Gao Feng Advisory in China and also the advisory team of AMT Consultancy as well as the academic advisor for Drucker Academy in Hong Kong, in addition to his other business and consulting experiences in China and abroad. He won the 2016 Top Ten Scholars and Executives for Management Innovation in China Award from Tsinghua University. He also won one Key Research Project Grant from the Natural Science Foundation of China (about RMB3 million) toward a total of his research grants of over US5.73 million. Dr. Li’s personal and professional background with diverse experiences on multiple dimensions provides him with a unique perspective to frame the world. He is among the world's top 2% scholars in the field of Business & Management.