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  • Assistant Professor

    Business Administration Department
    Room 430 Drake Centre
    181 Freedman Crescent
    University of Manitoba (Fort Garry Campus)
    Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 5V4

    cheng.li@umanitoba.ca

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Biography

Cheng Li is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the University of Manitoba.

Dr. Li earned her PhD from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario.She examines how government and society influence firm performance.

She has organized several scholarly panel symposiums on firm-government relationships at the Academy of Management Annual Conference and the Academy of International Business Annual Conference. Her work has appeared in Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal, and Journal of World Business.

Her diverse professional background spans working in the UK, China, Malaysia, and Canada.

Research Interests

  • Firm-government relationships
  • Firm-society relationships
  • Global strategy

Teaching Interests

  • Global strategy
  • Politics
  • Sustainability

Publications

Li, C., & Cuervo-Cazurra, A.  How subsidiary and supplier misbehavior lead to corporate social responsibility performance improvements in multinationals. Journal of International Business Studies. Accepted. 

Li, C., & Meyer, K. All politics starts local: liability of stateness and subnational labor markets. Global Strategy Journal. Accepted.

Cuervo-Cazurra, A., & Li, C. 2021. State Ownership and Internationalization: The Advantage and Disadvantage of Stateness. Journal of World Business, 56: 101112.