Peter Ping Li has recently published two book chapters

The first one is about the unique style of innovation among the Chinese firms with limited resources.

Traditionally, Chinese companies have been viewed as underdogs in global competition, but many Chinese latecomers have actually caught up and become major players in the global market in the past decade. This begs the question about this puzzle. Based on the authors’ case evidence, the central theme of this chapter is that many successful corporate underdogs share a pattern with two salient features. First, these firms tend to have stretch goals, that is, seemingly impossible goals given their available capabilities. Second, such firms tend to behave in a way similar to the notion of bricolage in terms of “making do by applying combinations of the resources at hand to new problems and opportunities.” By focusing on the question of how stretch goals and exploratory bricolage work together in the context of China, this chapter identifies the bricolage pattern with both theoretical and practical implications for both scholars and practitioners within and beyond China. 

The Puzzle of Underdog’s Victory: How Chinese Firms Achieve Stretch Goals Through Exploratory Bricolage. In Oxford Handbook of Innovation in China, X-L Fu, J. Chen & B. McKern (Eds.), New York: Oxford University Press, 2021 (Chapter 6.6, 625-645) [co-authored: Li, P.P., Zhou, S.H. & Yang, Z-Y.]. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190900533.013.35

The second is about the drivers toward the US-China decoupling and global implications of this decoupling.

The apparent trend toward de-globalization after several decades of steady globalization has been driven by a set of interrelated forces, such as political, social, cultural, technological, and economic factors. We refer to de-globalization as the weakening global interdependence with two core interrelated trends or patterns: (1) the actual decline in the overall flows of both trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) at the global level and (2) the predicted fragmentation or looser coupling of the current tightly coupled global interdependence, especially with the emerging shift from techno-globalization to techno-nationalism, or neo-techno-nationalism for national ends via global means, where the decoupling between the United States and China (together with their respective allies) can be taken as a special case with its unique and far-reaching implications.

The New Challenges in the Emerging Context of Global Decoupling. In Globalization, Business, and Society in Pandemic Times (International Business & Management, Vol. 36), T. Fang & J. Hassler (Eds.), New York: Emerald, 2021 (Chapter 17, 221-235). https://doi.org/10.1108/S1876-066X20220000036019