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Change agents and the evolution of the United States pharmaceutical industry, 1920--1960

Lee, Jeho - 1996

This dissertation examines the evolution of the market and the firms in the context of an emerging innovative race in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. The history shows the existence of two distinct industry regimes. Before 1940, the industry can best be characterized as a competitive regime in...

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"Your Life is Waiting!": Symbolic Meanings in Direct-to-Consumer Antidepressant Advertising

Grow, Jean; Park, Jin Seong; Han, Xiaoqi - 2006

This semiotic analysis demonstrates how pharmaceutical companies strategically frame depression within the hotly contested terrain of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising. The study tracks regulation of the pharmaceutical industry, relative to DTC advertising, including recent industry codes of...

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Consumer construction of the agricultural biotechnology industry's legitimacy: An empirical test of values congruency as institutional and actional legitimacy formation

Mosley, Raul A - 2006

institutional legitimacy) and to market drug-producing crops called Plant Made Pharmaceuticals (an instance of actional legitimacy …. Consumers were more slightly more likely to acknowledge the industry's right to market Plant Made Pharmaceuticals (r = .257 … as a big business entity and to market Plant Made Pharmaceuticals. …

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Plant Closings, Mass Layoffs, and Worker Dislocations: Data Issues

Bolle, Mary Jane; Foreign Affairs, Defense - 1993

For at least 15 years Members of Congress have continued to ask: How many U.S. manufacturing plants have closed? For at least 15 years they have continued to ask: How many U.S. manufacturing plants have relocated abroad, and where have they gone? For at least 15 years the answer has been: For...

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Knowledge worker #3

Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand)

Peter Drucker lectures about the knowledge worker. During his talk, he discusses: supply as the center of today’s corporation, the change in structure and character of the workforce, the main function of a job, work as portable and specialized, the importance of making oneself understood and...

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