This month’s GIGA Seminar in Socio-Economics will take place on Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 2.30 p.m. in room 546 at the GIGA.

Dr. Johannes Meuer will talk about the topic “Does China’s (Central) Government Matter? The Effectiveness of the Chinese State in orchestrating Outward M&A”. Dr. Meuer is a post-doctoral researcher at the RSM Research Centre on China Business, Erasmus University, and a visiting fellow of the Cranfield School of Management. He finished his doctoral thesis on the “Configurations of Inter-Firm Relations in Management Innovation: A Study in China’s Biopharmaceutical Industry” at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2011.