Foreign direct investment, International Business

PhD, Tsinghua University

Ping Lv*, Jakob Arnoldi, Anders Ryom Villadsen, Gaining legitimacy or exploiting opportunities? MNCs’ response to the Belt and Road Initiative in China, Chinese Management Studies, 2022.

Ping Lv*, Louise Curran, Francesca Spigarelli, Elisa Barbieri, One country, many industries: heterogeneity of Chinese OFDI motivations at meso level, China Economic Review, 2021.

Ping Lv*, Pengqi Liu, Waner Xu, China’s digital silk road investment effect: A boon for European countries or a danger to security? European Journal of International Management, forthcoming.

Alexandra Elena Carst, Ping Lv*, How Complementors Deal with Complement Challenges: A Comparative Study of Ports in the Wind Energy Ecosystem. International Journal of Technology Management, forthcoming.

Jing Su, Ping Lv*, Peter Gammeltoft, Ilan Alon, Host and home country co-determinants of foreign establishment modes: Evidence from the Chinese natural resource industries, European Journal of International Management, forthcoming.

Xuchang Chen, Ping Lv*, Directional financial and knowledge distances and foreign direct investment location choice: The moderating role of entry mode, European Journal of International Management, forthcoming.

Lauretta Rubini, Chiara Pollio, Francesca Spigarelli, Ping Lv, Regional social context and FDI. An empirical investigation on Chinese acquisitions in Europe, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2021, 58: 402-415.

Claudio Petti, Francesca Spigarelli, Ping Lv, Mario Biggeri, Globalization & innovation with Chinese characteristics: The case of the automotive industry, International Journal of Emerging Markets, 2021.

Augusto Ninni, Ping Lv*, Francesca Spigarelli, Pengqi Liu, How home and host country industrial policies affect investment location choice? The case of Chinese investments in the EU solar and wind industries, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 2020.

Chenxi Guo, Ping Lv*, Network position of independent director in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, International Journal of Emerging Markets, 2018, 13(1):118-135.

Louise Curran, Ping Lv, Francesca Spigarelli, Chinese investment in the EU Renewable Energy sector: Motives, impediments and policy implications, Energy Policy, 2017, 101:670-682.

Francesca Spigarelli, Ping Lv, Chinese expansion in the international healthcare markets: The role of Chinese OFDI in Europe, International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 2017, 16(1/2): 108-127.

Ping Lv*, Francesca Spigarelli, The determinants of location choice: Chinese foreign direct investments in the European renewable energy sector, International Journal of Emerging Markets, 2016, 11(3):333-356.

Francesca Spigarelli, Ping Lv, Chinese FDI in the EU: Learning from the renewable energy sector, Columbia FDI Perspectives - Perspectives on topical foreign direct investment issues, 2016, August 1, No.179.

Ping Lv*, Francesca Spigarelli, The integration of Chinese and European renewable energy markets: The role of Chinese foreign direct investments, Energy Policy, 2015, 81:14-26.

Ping Lv*, How Does Openness Affect Innovation? Evidence from National Key Laboratories in China, Science and Public Policy, 2014, 41(2):180-193.

Kevyan Alvandi, Cristina Chaminade, Ping Lv, Commonalities and Differences between Production- Related Foreign Direct Investment and Technology-Related Foreign Direct Investment in Developed and Emerging Economies, Innovation and Development, 2014, 4(2):293-311.

Ping Lv*, Monica Plechero, Rakesh Basant, International Competitive Strategy Choices: Comparing firms in China and India, Asia Pacific Business Review, 2013, 19(4): 542-558.

Book chapters:

Lv, P., Guo, C., Chen, X., How the Belt and Road Initiative affects China’s outward FDI: Comparing Chinese independent firms and business group affiliates, in Zhang, W., Alon, I., Lattemann, C., China's Belt and Road Initiative: Changing the Rules of Globalization, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Lv, P., Yu, L., Spigarelli, F., European healthcare industry and Chinese FDI: Where do Chinese firms invest? in Mucelli, A., Spigarelli, F., Healthcare policies and systems in Europe and China: Comparisons and synergies, World Scientific, 2017.

Lv, P., Plechero, M., Basant, R., International Competitive Strategy Choices: Comparing firms in China and India, in Warner, M., Rowley, C., Demystifying Chinese Management: Issues and Challenges, Routledge, 2014.

Lv, P., China: The Role of the State, in Scerri, M., Lastres, H. M. M., BRICS: The Role of the State, Routledge, 2013.

Chinese foreign direct investment; cross-border M&A; global business strategy; global innovation network

European Union, Marie Sklodowska - Curie Actions, “Health related activity recognition system based on IoT - An interdisciplinary training program for young researchers”, 2017.9-2020.12.

European Union, Marie Sklodowska - Curie Actions, “China and Europe Taking Care of Health Care Solution”, 2014.1-2017.12.

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, “The challenge of globalization: Technology driven foreign direct investment (TFDI) and its implications for the negotiation of International (bi- and multilateral) Investment Agreements”, 2011.9-2014.9.

European Union 7th Framework Program, “Impact of Networks, Globalization, and their Interaction with EU Strategies”, 2009.1-2011.12.

Swedish Research Council, “Emerging Trends in Asia: From Cost-based Producers to Global Suppliers of Innovation, Implications for Industry Growth in Developed and Developing Countries”, 2008.1-2010.12.

International Development Research Center, sub-project of “The Role of State in Chinese National Innovation System” in “National Innovation System of BRICS Countries”, 2009.