The present study has been undertaken to measure the efficiency of the Indian pharmaceutical companies during the period of recent recession. Data envelopment analysis has been utilized in the paper to measure the efficiency. Input oriented variable return to scale approach has been used in this...

The Indian Pharmaceutical Industry (IPI) will be going through a major shift in its business model, from the year 2005 onwards, as the existing Process Patent regime gives way to the Product Patent regime, in order to comply with the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights System (TRIPS)...

In this paper we have used data envelopment analysis (DEA) and econometric models to analyse the impact of research and development and innovation on relative efficiency and productivity change and firm performance in Indian pharmaceutical industry (IPI) between 1998 and 2007 which covers the...