PROBLEM A multinational company with operations in several African countries was committed to offer antiretroviral treatment to its employees and their dependants. APPROACH The Accelerating Access Initiative (AAI), an initiative of six pharmaceutical companies and five United Nations' agencies, offered the possibility of obtaining brand antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) at 10% of the commercial pri...

Information security policies can be considered as guidelines and used as a starting point to create a security structure within an organization. Although practitioners continuously emphasize the importance of such policies, information system scholars have not paid the required attention to this context from the cross-cultural perspective. The purpose of this study is to look at the cultural a...

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...

In many branches of modern science, researchers first study or mine large data sets, and then select the parameters they estimate and the data they use and publish. Such data-based selection complicates formal statistical inference. An example discussed here for the purpose of illustration, is that of pharmaceutical companies that typically conduct many experiments but may publish only selected...

Abstract Vendor Selection Problem (VSP) has been considered in this paper as an integrated method of Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and Quality Function Deployment (QFD) in the pharmaceutical company. In QFD method, determining the importance of the "weights" for the customer requirements is an essential and crucial issue. FAHP has been used to determine the importance of the "we...

Capital structure policy is used to help companies determine the optimal composition of capital between debt and equity. This study aims in pharmaceutical industry listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange for 2015-2019 period. The data secondary obtained from financial statements PT Indofarma Tbk, Herbal Pharmaceutical Industries sido Appear Kimia Farma Merk Tbk which are processed using method calcu...

The Medical Council of India (MCI) via amendment to the “Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulation 2002” has brought out the code of conduct for doctors and professional association of doctors in their relationship with pharmaceutical and allied health sector industry which prohibit them from accepting any gifts, travel facility or hospitality, from any phar...

We describe an R&D project valuation model developed for Phytopharm plc, an emerging pharmaceutical company based in Cambridge, UK. The model allows the company to value the projects in its R&D portfolio, and is used for licensing negotiations with potential product development and marketing partners. It is based on different valuation methods, including Net Present Value, Decision Analysis and...

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...