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UN CASO DE EMPODERAMIENTO EN LA INDUSTRIA QUIMICA
SINGER, MARCOS; DONOSO, PATRICIO - In: Abante 8 (2005) 1, pp. 3-24
Empowerment (giving others, within operative levels, a certain degree of decision-making power) is one of the requirements to execute quality management programs. The autonomy afforded by empowering others could be detrimental to systems where complexity and variability is high, as local...
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Quality Management and Productivity—A Preliminary Study
Fisher, T. J. - In: Australian Journal of Management 15 (1990) 1, pp. 107-127
This study involved a preliminary investigation of three medium-sized Australian companies which are implementing quality management in some for M, in order to identify quality and productivity improvements, and profitability changes, which could be directly attributed to the implementation of...
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Sustaining Universal Health Coverage in France: A Perpetual Challenge
Barroy, Helene; Or, Zeynep; Kumar, Ankit; Bernstein, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
While universal health coverage (UHC) offers a powerful goal for a nation, all countries-irrespective of income are struggling with achieving or sustaining UHC. France is a high-income country where HC is in effect universal. Health-related costs are covered by a mix of mandatory social health...
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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy: A Primer
Hsiao, William C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need in situations where they must address issues concerning health sector policy and when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to...
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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy?
Heller, Peter S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need to address issues concerning health sector policy, particularly when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to any strategy of...
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(De)construction of pharmaceutical industry reputation through material practices regulation
Lambrix, Hélène - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
In this empirical paper, I am looking at how individuals make reputational judgement of pharmaceutical companies when they prescribe a medicine, and, how the Mediator’s scandal in France has changed rules, material practices and the institutional logic. The literature review explores first the...
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Patents and performance in the Japanese pharmaceutical industry: An institution-based view
Mahlich, Jörg - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 27 (2010) 1, pp. 99-113
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The Relationship between Salesperson Competencies and Performance in the Korean Pharmaceutical Industry
Kim, Seong-Kook; Hong, Ji-Sook - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 16 (2005) 2, pp. 259-271
This study investigates how competencies lead to performance. We propose that salespersons in the Korean pharmaceutical … argue that the level of salesperson competencies is positively related to his/her performance, and that the quality of … leader-member exchange positively moderates the relationship between competencies and performance. Results based on analyses …
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Mergers and Acquisitions in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: Nature, Structure and Performance
Beena, S - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
which resulted in better performance of the merging firms compared to the non-merging firms in this industry. …
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Globalisation and Its Impact on Competitiveness: the Case of the British and German Pharmaceutical Industry
Lane, Christel; Probert, Jocelyn - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2003
This paper assesses the degree of financial and economic globalisation of British and German pharmaceutical companies during 1990 and 2001 and explores the changing balance between globalisation and national embeddedness. It tries to explain both the much lower degree of globalisation of German...
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