Faculty Profile

Jing Li

Associate Professor
Ph.D. (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana,USA); B.A. Econ. (Peking University, Beijing, China)

Burnaby Phone: 778-782-4568
Burnaby Office: WMC 3347

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Biography

Associate Professor Jing Li joined the Beedie School of Business in 2004 from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University where she recently earned her PhD. A Chinese national with a Bachelor of Economics from Peking University, Jing is interested in how multinational companies strategize their entry into China as well as how foreign direct investment affects the performance of indigenous companies in China. She has discovered that Chinese firms, as latecomer firms, need to combine endogenous efforts in R&D and marketing with various learning mechanisms in order to build up competitive advantages. Jing is also interested in general theory development in international business, such as strategic alliances and the applications of real options theory and game theory to business strategy.

She finds that Vancouver's multicultural environment makes it east to integrate into the local culture. She particularly enjoys Vancouver's outdoor lifestyle, making time to hike, bike and ski in the midst of preparations for teaching classes about how to do business in the Asia Pacific Rim.

Specialization and Research Interests

Joint ventures, foreign direct investments in China, Innovations and outward foreign direct investments of Chinese firms, real options theory and international strategy.

Selected Publications

Working Papers