Seminars topic: Cross-border collaborations within multinational corporations (MNCs) significantly contribute to knowledge creation despite management challenges. We investigate how concentrating the cross-border co-inventing linkages on one or a few inventors within a host country is associated with local knowledge creation. Results of our MNC-country-year-level analysis based on American pharmaceutical MNCs data from 1980 to 2008 support our hypotheses
Scholars Background: Jiatao (JT) Li is Chair Professor of Management, Lee Quo Wei Professor of Business, Director of the Center for Business Strategy and innovation, and Senior Fellow of the institute for Advanced Study, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a Fellow of the Academy of international Business (AIB) and an area editor of the Journal of International Business Studies (2016-2025). He has served as an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal from 2009 to 2016. His current research interests are in the areas of organizational learning, strategic alliances, corporate governance, innovation, and entrepreneurship, with a focus on issues related to global firms and those from emerging economies. His work has appeared in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, journal of international Business Studies and Journal of Management. He is currently serving as a member of the editorial boards of leading journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Policy, Global Strategy Journal, and Long Range Planning, among others. He was Program Chair of the Strategic Management Societys special conference held in Hong Kong in December 2016, and served as Vice President and Program Chair of the 2018 Academy of International Business annual conference in the US.
Time and Location: May 14, 2025 | 14:00-15:30 (GMT+8), Room A823 (School of Management)
Language: English
