The aim of this Review, prepared under the auspices of the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council, is to 1. Assess AMWAC's performance to date against its original terms of reference and assess to what extent have expectations been achieved? 2. Assess and make relevant recommendations on...

Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2007.

The Australian pharmaceutical industry is an important and vibrant part of the National economy and has features that distinguish it from other industries such as advertising restrictions, government subsidies, stringent government and industry regulations and the decision maker not necessarily...

During Peter Drucker's talk entitled "The Organization in Transition – Are the Traditional Functions Obsolete?" he discusses functions that remain centers of specialized knowledge and training, but cease to constitute the organizational base of the work itself. During his lecture, he talks...

This doctoral thesis draws on the financial economics, strategic management, product innovation, and health technology literatures to investigate and explain conditions under which corporate acquisitions in the medical device industry have enhanced or eroded shareholder wealth and financial...

The research in this thesis focuses on the pharmaceutical R&D investment decision. The two primary hypotheses I test are that: (1) capital market imperfections in the market for pharmaceutical R&D finance impart a lower cost of capital to internal funds relative to external debt and equity, and...