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Staff Profile

Dr Xin Li

Senior Lecturer in International Management; Degree Programme Director for MSc International Business Management

Background

Profile

I am Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) in International Management at Newcastle University Business School.

I am, by inclination, a theory-oriented scholar, aspiring to develop new theories that deepen our understandings of critical academic questions and important practical issues. My researches have been published in academic journals such as Academy of Management Review (AMR), Asia Pacific Journal of Management (APJM), Journal of Management Inquiry (JMI), and Management and Organization Review (MOR).

Roles and responsibilities

  • Degree Programme Director (DPD) for MSc International Business Management program

Qualifications and certificates

  • Ph.D. in Business Economics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (2011)    
  • M.Sc. in Business Studies, Aston University Business School, UK (2004)     
  • B.Eng. in Computer Applications, Southwest Petroleum University, China (1999).
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Skills of Teaching to Inspire Learning, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK (2007)

Previous positions

  • Assistant Professor in International Business, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (2012-2019).

Awards

  • 2022: Best Presentation Award (I am one of four Best Oral Presenters) of the 3rd International Conference on Modern Management based on Big Data (MMBD2022), 15-18 August 2022, online conference.
  • 2022: My 2020 article ‘The quan(tum)-xin philosophy: A solution to the ‘Hwang Kwang- Kuo puzzle’ of Chinese indigenous social science’ (全心学：试解华人本土社会科学的‘黄光国难题’) was selected to be included into the inaugural edition of Yearbook of Chinese Management Philosophy on 5 May 2022.
  • 2019: Winner of “2019 Emerald Literati Award: Highly Commended Paper” (for an article published in Cross-Cultural & Strategic Management in 2018:“How emerging market resource-poor firms compete and outcompete advanced country resource-rich rivals: An asymmetry reversing theory”)
  • 2018: Winner of the Outstanding Research within the Fields of Philosophy and Social Science Prize (the second rank) given by the Government of Shanghai, China in 2018 (2018年上海市第十四届哲学社会科学优秀成果奖之学科学术奖论文类二等奖)
  • 2015: Winner of “2015 Emerald Literati Award: Highly Commended Paper” (for an article published in Nankai Business Review International in 2014: "The integration of corporate non-market and market strategies: why, what, and how")
  • 2014 Winner of the Outstanding Conference Paper award of the 18th World Management Forum & Eastern Management Forum in 2014 (2014年度第十八届世界管理论坛暨东方管理论坛优秀论文一等奖)
  • 2007 winner of the Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper award (with 1000 USD prize) of the Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ASBE) 2007 Fall Conference, 10-12 October, Austin, Texas, USA

Languages

  • Chinese (native)
  • English (fluent)
Teaching

Management

  • Degree Programme Director (DPD) for MSc International Business Management program

Teaching

  • BSc course (BUS1002): Global Business Environment (module leader & lecturer)
  • MSc course (NBS8599): Research-based Dissertation (module leader & lecturer)
  • MBA course (NBS8128): Transitions in the Global Economy (module leader & lecturer)

Supervision

  • BUS3052: Dissertation for BSc International Business Management
  • NBS8500: Research-based Dissertation for MSc Global Human Resource Management
  • NBS8599: Research-based Dissertation for MSc International Business Management
  • NBS8600: Practice-based Dissertation for MSc International Business Management


Research

Current work

Currently, I focus on addressing some foundational theoretical questions of international business, strategic management, and paradox research.

Main expertise

My research interests include international business, strategic management, organizational paradox, and indigenous Chinese management research. I am particularly interested in bridging Chinese and Western perspectives in business and management scholarship.

I am part of the Strategy, International Business and Society (SIBS) research community at the Business School.

Funding received

  • 2015: Danish Carlsberg Foundation’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Denmark, research grant (Danish Kroner 1,324,000) for the 3-year project titled “An Inquiry into the Survival and International Success of Resource-Poor Firms from China” (ID: CF15-0270).
  • 2016: Danish Otto Mønsted Foundation’s Visiting Professors from Abroad grant (Danish Kroner 98,000) for inviting Prof. Arie Y. Lewin of Duke University, US, to be a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School.

Future research

I have interests in

  • Digital transformation of business organizations
  • Applications of quantum and relativity theories in management studies
  • Application of Chinese philosophy (e.g., Xinxue or Xin-Philosophy) in management studies

Postgraduate supervision

Currently, I am co-supervising a PhD student researching coopetition strategy in sustainable entrepreneurship from a paradox lens.

From September 2023, I will co-supervise four new PhD students whose doctoral researches tackle paradox and digital transformation issues respectively.

Publications