China Business

 
 
   
 

Johannes Meuer

Contact information

E-mail: jmeuer@rsm.nl
Personal page at the Rotterdam School of Management

Department Organization and Personnel Management
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Room: T8-17

Erasmus University Rotterdam
P.O. Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Tel.: +31 (0) 10 4082813
Fax: +31 (0) 10 4089015

Current research projects

Managing challenges The generation of proto-typical institutions in China’s biopharmaceutical industry
Data: Primary data collection, in-depth interviews and survey with firms in the Chinese biopharmaceutical industry 
Available document:  Survey and sample: Descriptive statistics
Internationalization of Chinese SMEs Patterns of internationalization, substantiation of existing theories
Data: Self administered data base covering entry strategies of Chinese SME’s from 2000-2010

Profession/ Education

2006-
2011
Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM)
PhD Candidate
Dept. of Organization and Personnel Management
- Dissertation title: " Configurations of Inter-firm Relations in Management Innovation: A Study in China’s Biopharmaceutical Industry"
- Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Barbara Krug
Rotterdam
Netherlands
2004 – 2005 Corvinus University of Budapest (CUB)
Master of Science in International Business and Economics (MSc) 
- Thesis: ”China and the WTO - Impacts on the global textile and apparel industry”
Budapest
Hungary
2005 China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
MBA Exchange Student 2005
Shanghai
China
2000 – 2003 ISM Dortmund
Diplom-Kaufmann (FH) – International Management (Dipl. Kfm.) 
- Thesis: “Analysis of EVA® based Management systems”
Dortmund
Germany
2001 – 2002 Escuela Superio de Dirección de Empresas (EBS), Madrid Madrid
Spain

Publications

Meuer, J (2011) Configurations of Inter-firm Relations in Management Innovation: A Study in China’s Biopharmaceutical Industry. Dissertation.

Meuer, J (2008) Smart Business Networks in Non-Modular Industries – China’s biopharmaceutical R&D and the Viable Systems Model. In P.H.M. Vervest, D.W. van Liere & L.Zheng (eds.) The Network Factor, Germany, Berlin: Springer

Meuer, J and Krug, B (2007) The current state of research on Networks in China’s business system. Proceeding of the Conference on Institutional Foundations of Innovation and Competitiveness in East Asia.

Conferences presentations

07/ 2009            25TH EGOS Colloquium
Paper presentation: Collective creation of proto institutions
Barcelona
Spain
05/ 2009 8TH Session of the European School of New Institutional Economics
Paper presentation: A set theoretic approach to the study of proto institutions
Cargèse
France
02/ 2009 XV. Organization Science Winter Conference
Poster presentation: Hatching institutions
Colorado
USA
06/ 2008 International Association for Chinese Management Research
Paper presentation: Collective institutional entrepreneurship in China’s biopharmaceutical industry
Guangzhou
China
05/ 2008 Smart Business Networks Initiative 2008
Paper presentation: Smart Business Networks in non-modular industries
Beijing
China
03/ 2007 Macht in der Ökonomie, Evangelische Akademie Tutzigen
Paper presentation: The current state of network research in China’s Business systems
Munich
Germany

Additional Training

08/ 2009           European Consortium for Political Research – Summer School in Methods and Techniques
QCA and Fuzzy sets – Configurational Comparative Methods
Ljubljana
Slovenia
06/ 2009       Pre-Testing Questionnaires to Improve Survey Research
Utrecht
Netherlands
05/ 2009 European School of New Institutional Economics
    Cargèse
France

Field research experience

2007–2008 Survey, in-depth interviews and participant observation with
decision-makers in biopharmaceutical life science industry
Greater
China
2005 In-depth interviews with decision-makers in textile and apparel industry        
    Shanghai
China
 
 
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