Shaomin Li

Shaomin Li is Professor of International Business at Old Dominion University (Virginia, USA), where he holds the title of Eminent Scholar designated by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. He graduated from Peking University (B.A. Economics), Princeton University (Ph.D. Sociology), and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. He published in Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Comparative Economics, World Development, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and The New York Times. His most recent books, Bribery and Corruption in Weak Institutional Environments and The Rise of China, Inc., are published by Cambridge University Press. The Economist featured his research on rule-based versus relation-based governance twice. He is Executive Editor of the journal Modern China Studies. In 2008 the Governor of Virginia presented him the Outstanding Faculty Award.