Pharmaceuticals, pharmacists and profits

Kap among Community Pharmacists regarding Halal Pharmaceuticals: a Crossectional Assessment

There is a growing awareness amongst Muslims to avoid all items containing non-Halal ingredients. This sentiment has now progressed into the field of various medications too. This was a cross-sectional study using a structured, self-administered questionnaire to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and perception of community pharmacists regarding Halal pharmaceuticals. A total of 473 pharmacists w...

Assessment of knowledge, attitude & perception among hospital pharmacists regarding Halal pharmaceuticals

Article history: Received on: 24/04/2014 Revised on: 06/05/2014 Accepted on: 18/05/2014 Available online: 27/05/2014 This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude and perception (KAP) relating to Halal pharmaceuticals among pharmacists working in various hospitals of Malaysia. This was a cross-sectional study, carried out in the period of January 2013 to March 2013, using a structured, sel...

Profits, Layoffs and Priorities

This study examines the deliberations of professional MBA students when presented with a dilemma that weighs the difference between commitments to profit maximization against concerns for fired workers who would need to seek a new job during a recession. Using content analysis, we categorize accounting, economic and ethically-based rationales that differ from the profitmaximizing recommendation...

Profits and Productivity

In this study we consider the linkage between productivity change and profit change. We develop an analytical framework in which profit change between one period and the next is decomposed into three sources: (i) a productivity change effect (which includes a technical change effect and an operating efficiency effect), (ii) an activity effect (which includes a product mix effect, a resource mix...

Profits and professionalism.