This book is the revised version of a doctoral thesis written at the Graduiertenkolleg Law and Economics at Hamburg University. It addresses the market failure with respect to R&D for medicines for tropical diseases and the lack of access to affordable medicines in poor countries. Tropical...

Patient Relationship Management als Herausforderung für die pharmazeutische Industrie -- Rahmenbedingungen des Patient Relationship Management -- Ein Patient Relationship Management-Ansatz -- Patientenbindung durch Patient Relationship Management: Konzeption und empirische Überprüfung --...

Einführung in das Thema -- Aktuelle Patentausläufe und die an ihnen beteiligten Unternehmen -- Theoretische und empirische Grundlagen -- Der Produktlebenszyklus von Arzneimitteln -- Die Rolle von Patenten in der pharmazeutischen Industrie -- Auswirkungen von Patentausläufen in der...

Need for Optimal Design of Pharmaceutical Programs and Portfolios in Modern Medical Product Development -- Clinical Aspects of Pharmaceutical Portfolio Management -- Drug Development and the Cost of Capital -- Investment Considerations for Pharmaceutical Product Portfolios -- Challenges of...

This publication examines how drug originator manufacturers manage to shield their products from competition. It characterizes the pharmaceutical industry in detail and analyzes actions that violate antitrust laws in the USA and/or the European Union. The publication examines, for example,...

As ‘disruption’ is currently becoming the new buzzword in boardrooms, this book advocates that the most striking opportunity for business today is making itself relevant to its stakeholders. By presenting a new route via innovative business models, a transformational corporate approach to...

This book explores technological innovation in family firms, seeking to reconstruct the links between the heterogeneous dimensions of family businesses and their innovative behaviour. Building on and examining the traditional view of family firms as conservative, this book contributes to...

Die Beitragsautoren dieses Herausgeberbandes decken ein großes Themenspektrum ab: Sie spannen einen Bogen von den bestehenden Möglichkeiten der Venture Capital- und Forschungsfinanzierung, der Bilanzierung und den erforderlichen Strategien in Marketing und Vertrieb, bis zur Herausforderung bei...

Verena Brenner provides a systematic approach for the investigation, measurement, and management of supply chain disruptions. A terminological, theoretical and practical basis for the analysis of supply chain disruptions is developed to create a consistent and transferable research framework. To...

In India today only 35 percent of people have access to medicines. This book examines the rise of drug prices in India, and develops a new healthcare model, which if implemented, would extend access to medicines to India's entire population. Sensitivity tests show that the proposed model is...