Journal articles

Li, P. 2025. Cluster-based routines and paradigm-bound innovation. Research Policy. 54: 105192. (PDF)

Li, P., Turkina, E. and Van Assche, A. 2022. The tortoise and the hare: industry clockspeed and resilience of production and knowledge networks in Montreal's aerospace industry. ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography. doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2021-0062 

Bathelt, H. and Li, P. 2022. The interplay between location and strategy in a turbulent age, Global Strategy Journal. 12(3): 451-471. (PDF)

Li, P. and Bathelt, H. 2021. Spatial knowledge strategies: an analysis of international investments using fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), Economic Geography. 97(4): 366-389. (PDF)

Bathelt, H. and Li, P. 2020. Building better methods in economic geography, Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie (German Journal for Economic Geography), 64(3): 103-108. (PDF)

Bathelt, H. and Li, P. 2020 Processes of building cross-border knowledge pipelines, Research Policy , 49(3): 103928. (PDF)

Li, P. and Bathelt, H. 2020. Headquarters-subsidiary knowledge strategies at the cluster level, Global Strategy Journal, 10(3): 585-618. (PDF)

         Best Paper Award at Academy of International Business US Northeast Chapter Meeting, Philadelphia, 2018. 

Zhu, H. and Li, P. 2019. Dancing in shackles: interactive learning of industrial design firms in Beijing, Industry and Innovation, 26(5): 568-591. (PDF)

Li, P. 2018. A tale of two clusters: knowledge and emergence, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 30(7-8): 822-847. (PDF). 

Li, P. and Bathelt, H. 2018. Location strategy in cluster networks, Journal of International Business Studies, 49(8): 967-989. (PDF) 

Bathelt, H., Li, P. and Zhu, Y-W. 2017. Geographies of temporary markets: an anatomy of the Canton Fair, European Planning Studies, 25(9): 1497-1515. (PDF) 

Li, P. and Bathelt, H. 2017. From temporary market to temporary cluster: evolution of the Canton Fair, Area Development and Policy, 2(2): 154-172. (PDF) 

Li, P. 2014. Global temporary networks of clusters: structures and dynamics of trade fairs in Asian economies. Journal of Economic Geography, 14(5): 995-1021. (PDF) 

Bathelt, H. and P. Li. 2014. Global cluster networks: foreign direct investment flows from Canada to China. Journal of Economic Geography, 14(1): 45-71. (PDF) 

         Best Paper Award at Regional Studies Association Global Conference, Beijing, 2012. 

Li, P. 2014. Horizontal vs. vertical learning: divergence and diversification of lead firms in Hangji toothbrush cluster, China. Regional Studies, 48(7): 1227-1241. (PDF)

Li, P., Bathelt, H. and Wang, J. 2012. Network dynamics and cluster evolution:  changing trajectories of aluminum extrusion industry in Dali, China. Journal of Economic Geography,  12(1): 127-155. (PDF)

           Travel Award by the China Special Group of Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, 2009.

Book chapters

Chen, R., Zhu, A., Li, Y., Li, P., Ye, C. and Meadows, M.E. 2022. Interactions of Geography with Other Natural and Social Sciences and the Humanities. In V, Kolosov.,  J, García-Álvarez., M, Heffernan and B, Schelhaas. (eds) A Geographical Century, Springer, pp.181-198

Li, P. 2017. Family networks for learning and knowledge creation in developing countries, In J. Gluckler., E. Lazega and I. Hammer (eds) Knowledge and Networks, Springer, pp. 67-83. (PDF) 

Li, P. 2017. Horizontal learning. In H.Bathelt., P. Cohendet., S. Henn and L. Simon (eds) The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation: A Multi-disciplinary Approach, Edward Elgar, pp. 392-404. (PDF)

Wang, J. and Li, P. 2016. Growth poles and growth centers. In D. Richardson., N. Castree., M. Goodchild., A. Kobayashi., W. Liu., and R. Marston. (eds) The International Encyclopedia of Geography. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (PDF)        

Li, P. 2015. Temporary clustering in developing economies: trade fairs in South and Southeast Asia. In H. Bathelt and G. Zeng (eds) Temporary Knowledge Ecologies: the Rise and Evolution of Trade Fairs in Asia-Pacific, Edward Elgar. pp.93-114. (PDF) 

Bathelt, H, Li, P. and G, Zeng. 2015. Towards temporary knowledge ecologies in the Asia-Pacific region: a synthesis. In Harald Bathelt and Gang Zeng (eds) Temporary Knowledge Ecologies: the Rise and Evolution of Trade Fairs in Asia-Pacific, Edward Elgar. pp.293-309. (PDF link) 

Li, P. 2013. How industrial clusters helped light manufacturing, In Dinh, H.T., T, Rawski., A, Zafar., L, Wang., and E, Mavroeidi. Tales from the Development Frontier: How China and Other Countries Harness Light Manufacturing to Create Jobs and Prosperity, Washington, D.C.: World Bank Press. pp. 122-145. (PDF) 

Bathelt, H and P. Li. 2013. Evolutionary economic geography and relational geography. In Fischer, Manfred M. and Nijkamp, Peter (Eds.) Handbook in Regional Science. Springer. Volume 2, pp. 591-609. (PDF) 

Reports and others

Bathelt, H. and Li P. 2015. Mapping networks of innovative clusters between China and Canada. Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada,Vancouver. (PDF) 

Li, P. and Bathelt, H. 2014. Locating in a ‘Silicon Valley’ does not guarantee success for technology firms – they must also leverage knowledge and innovation globally. the London School of Economics USApp blog. (PDF) 

Case

Li, P. 2018. Competing with dragons: Amazon in China/Face aux dragons: Amazon en Chine. In both English and French. International Journal of Case Studies in Management, 16(1). 1-19. (PDF link) , also available on Harvard Business Publishing: Product #: HEC204-PDF-ENG )