National CLP heldpesk is a service established in every Member State providing advice to companies and other stakeholders on the obligations they may have under CLP. In Italy the national helpdesk is located into the Center of Chemical Substances (CSC) in the National Institute of Health. Helpdesks will provide with wide ranging information on the provisions of CLP. They will also advice on the...

This article examines the way in which the Spanish hotel industry has responded to government aid and to the use of new technological strategies in order to improve its ability to innovate. Using the Survey on Technological Innovation (Encuesta sobre innovación tecnológica, 2000), carried out by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics under the guidelines of Eurostat and the Oslo Manual, h...

Effective medicines exist to treat or alleviate many diseases which predominate in the developing world and cause high mortality and morbidity rates. Price should not be an obstacle preventing access to these medicines. Increasingly, drug donations have been established by drug companies, but these are often limited in time, place or use. Measures exist which are more sustainable and will have ...

Classical single-factor comparable company valuation (CCV) like e.g. valuation using the price-earnings ratio is associated with several shortcomings. The two most important are the non-applicability of negative values in the basis of reference and the high requirements to the qualitative characteristics of comparable companies. This paper develops a multi-factor CCV model based on substance an...

PURPOSE Medical students are at-risk to the influence of pharmaceutical company (Pharma) marketing. As interactions with the industry come under increasing scrutiny and regulation, previous studies on student-Pharma relations no longer may be accurate. This study assessed students' attitudes toward and interactions with Pharmas at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health...

The United States is the only western industrialized nation that fails to provide universal coverage and the only nation where health care for the majority of the population is financed by for-profit, minimally regulated private insurance companies. These arrangements leave one-sixth of the population uninsured at any given time, and they leave others at risk of losing insurance as a result of ...

373 National Tax Journal Vol. LIII, No. 3, Part 1 Abstract The explosion of interest in electronic commerce stemming from commercial use of the Internet triggered high expectations, and accompanying high stock market value for public companies specializing in the delivery of products and services through this channel. However, the boom in the market value of these so– called “dot com” companies...

Globalization has been making many companies expand their offices outside their national borders in order to maintain a competitive market share worldwide. With this strategy comes the overhead of managing globally dispersed teams that must function as a unit. To achieve this result without the overwhelming costs of air travel, most companies resort to technology, web conferences, phone confere...

The strategy of introducing specialty healthcare services into the global marketplace is timely, as improved techniques and technology enhance existing treatment interventions and populations are demanding increased access and high quality. In dualistic healthcare markets, countries with a national health service and a private sector, opportunities are either available or can be created to intr...