According to the Egyptian Ministry of Health, the per capita use of prescription drugs in Egypt is amongst the highest in the world. Multinational pharmaceutical companies license their proprietary products for manufacture and sale in Egypt through their Egyptian subsidiaries. A Ministry of Health Committee reviews and approves for sale all drugs marketed in the country. Aside from being an ext...

OBJECTIVE Access to medicines has long been and remains a challenge in African countries. The impact of medicines registration policies in these countries poses a challenge for pharmaceutical companies wanting to register medicines in these countries. The recent AMRHI (African Medicines Registration Harmonisation Initiative) has increased the focus on the need for harmonisation. Medicines regis...

Regarding to rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment it will become increasingly important for organizations to measure their performances appropriately. With respect to special characteristics of pharmaceutical industry and lack of reported performance measurement, this study tries to design an integrated performance measurement model for pharmaceutical companies. For gene...

nearly two decades, organizational failures are considered as an effective source of promoting organizational learning. error management culture in the organization is established as a mechanism to facilitate organizational learning from errors that improves long-term and sustainable innovation and organizational performance. the main objective of this study is to investigate the relation betwe...

in today's competitive world, establishıng a proper system of evaluating firms performance is essential. the purpose of this study is to evaluate the financial performance of pharmaceutical, basic metals and automotive parts companies using a new method. the fuzzy ahp is used for weighting the performance evaluation measures and fuzzy topsis and fuzzy vikor is also used to rank the compani...

The current shift in the marketing strategy is work by multinational pharmaceutical Companies .It is now high-end (rather than adaptive) development that is being carried out by leading companies. And, increasingly, other companies are finding themselves competing against, or working with, new innovation-based companies. My study focuses on the processes and outcomes of globally distributed pha...

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical company representatives likely influence the prescribing habits and professional behaviour of physicians. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to systematically review the effects of interventions targeting practising physicians' interactions with pharmaceutical companies. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA We included observational studies, non-randomised controlled trials...

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most productive and competitive industries in the world. Many of the large pharmaceutical companies (often termed ‘Big Pharma’) base their primary operations in the USA and maintain extensive facilities in countries around the world. Pharmaceutical research is, therefore, an activity of global importance. The intensely competitive and global nature of B...

BACKGROUND Many patients' and consumers' organizations accept drug industry funding to support their activities. As drug companies and patient groups move closer, disclosure become essential for transparency, and the internet could be a useful means of making sponsorship information accessible to the public. This survey aims to assess the transparency of a large group of Italian patient and con...