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Business and Management

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30
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1156

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Overview

Sali Li is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research chiefly concentrates on areas within Business, Management and Accounting, with substantial contributions to the subfields of Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Accounting, Management Science and Operations Research, and Marketing.

Their work encompasses a variety of topics, including:

  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
  • Business Strategy and Innovation
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • International Business and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

Among recent papers, Sali Li's contributions include:

  • Platform Governance Design in Platform Ecosystems: Implications for Complementors' Multihoming Decision (2021), published in Journal of Management
  • The more the merrier? Chinese government R&D subsidies, dependence, and firm innovation performance (2021), published in Journal of Product Innovation Management
  • Charting new courses to enter foreign markets: Conceptualization, theoretical framework, and research directions on non-traditional entry modes (2022), published in Journal of International Business Studies
  • Experience base, strategy-by-doing and new product performance (2020), published in Strategic Management Journal
  • Revisiting Location in a Digital Age: How Can Lead Markets Accelerate the Internationalization of Mobile Apps? (2020), published in Journal of International Marketing

Sali Li has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Liang Chen
  • Noman Shaheer
  • Pengxiang Zhang
  • Jingtao Yi
  • Keith D. Brouthers

Their publications have appeared regularly in leading venues such as:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Management
  • Journal of International Business Studies
  • Strategic Management Journal
  • Global Strategy Journal

Best Publications

  • Insights and New Directions from Demand-Side Approaches to Technology Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management Research

    Richard L. Priem;Richard L. Priem;Sali Li;Jon C. Carr

  • Toward Reimagining Strategy Research: Retrospection and Prospection on the 2011 AMR Decade Award Article

    Richard L. Priem;John E. Butler;Sali Li

  • The international penetration of ibusiness firms: Network effects, liabilities of outsidership and country clout

    Liang Chen;Noman Shaheer;Jingtao Yi;Sali Li

  • The assignment of call option rights between partners in international joint ventures

    Tony W. Tong;Sali Li

  • The CAGE around cyberspace? How digital innovations internationalize in a virtual world

    Noman Ahmed Shaheer;Sali Li

  • Resource ambidexterity through alliance portfolios and firm performance

    Ulrich Wassmer;Sali Li;Anoop Madhok

  • MNC strategies, exogenous shocks, and performance outcomes

    Sali Li;Stephen Tallman

  • Charting new courses to enter foreign markets: Conceptualization, theoretical framework, and research directions on non-traditional entry modes

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  • Platform Governance Design in Platform Ecosystems: Implications for Complementors' Multihoming Decision

    Liang Chen;Jingtao Yi;Sali Li;Tony W. Tong

  • The more the merrier? Chinese government R&D subsidies, dependence, and firm innovation performance

    Jingtao Yi;Michael Murphree;Shuang Meng;Sali Li

  • The contingent value of CEO political connections: A study on IPO performance in China

    Jianfeng Wu;Sali Li;Zijie Li

  • Supplier‐Switching Inertia and Competitive Asymmetry: A Demand‐Side Perspective*

    Sali Li;Anoop Madhok;Gerhard R. Plaschka;Rohit Verma

  • The divestiture of acquired subunits: A resource dependence approach

    Jun Xia;Sali Li

  • State-Owned Enterprises as Bribe Payers: The Role of Institutional Environment

    Noman Shaheer;Jingtao Yi;Sali Li;Liang Chen

  • Experience base, strategy-by-doing and new product performance

    Liang Chen;Mengmeng Wang;Lin Cui;Sali Li

  • Corporate political connections in global strategy

    Lin Cui;Helen Wei Hu;Sali Li;Klaus E. Meyer

  • Revisiting Location in a Digital Age: How Can Lead Markets Accelerate the Internationalization of Mobile Apps?:

    Noman Shaheer;Sali Li;Richard Priem

  • Acquisition or greenfield entry into Africa? Responding to institutional dynamics in an emerging continent

    Ruiyuan Chen;Lin Cui;Sali Li;Robert Rolfe

  • Alliance Formation in the Midst of Market and Network: Insights From Resource Dependence and Network Perspectives:

    Jun Xia;Yonggui Wang;Ya (Lisa) Lin;Haibin Yang

  • Externalization in the platform economy: Social platforms and institutions

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  • Decisions, Decisions! How Judgment Policy Studies Can Integrate Macro and Micro Domains in Management Research

    Richard L. Priem;Bruce A. Walters;Sali Li

  • Cross-national Distance and FDI: The Moderating Role of Host Country Local Demand

    Nicholas Bailey;Sali Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard L. Priem
Richard L. Priem Texas Christian University
Anoop Madhok
Anoop Madhok York University
Stephen Tallman
Stephen Tallman University of Richmond
Tony W. Tong
Tony W. Tong University of Colorado Boulder
Preet S. Aulakh
Preet S. Aulakh York University
Rohit Verma
Rohit Verma University of South Carolina
Keith D. Brouthers
Keith D. Brouthers King's College London
Raphael Amit
Raphael Amit University of Pennsylvania
Jon C. Carr
Jon C. Carr North Carolina State University
Klaus E. Meyer
Klaus E. Meyer University of Western Ontario

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