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Change agents and the evolution of the United States pharmaceutical industry, 1920--1960
Lee, Jeho - 1996
dominated the market in the two decades following 1960. In sum, this study corroborates the central part of evolutionary theory …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484498
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430368
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An Empirical Analysis of Development Processes for Anticipatory Standards
Mitra, Prasenjit; Purao, Sandeep; Bagby, John W.; … - Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University; … - 2005
There is an evolution in the process used by standards-developmentorganizations (SDOs) and this is changing the prevailing standardsdevelopment activity (SDA) for information and communications technology(ICT). The process is progressing from traditional SDA modes, typicallyinvolving the...
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R&D Investments of Multinational Corporations
Veliyath, Rajaram; Sambharya, Rakesh B. - 2011
This paper investigated the influence of country-level factors that have led to shifts in the patterns of international R&D investments made by Multinational Corporations (MNCs), from an exclusive focus on developed countries to a broader scope that also includes developing countries....
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Impact of Foreign Intellectual Property Rights Protection on U.S. Exports and FDI
Gu, Weishi - 2009
This version of the paper is subject to changes.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444727
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The Economics of Generating and Maintaining Plant Variety Rights in China
Koo, Bonwoo; Pardey, Philip G.; Qian, Keming; Zhang, Yi - 2003
Notwithstanding the ambiguous research and productivity promoting effects of plant varietyprotections (PVPs), even in developed countries, many developing countries have adoptedPVPs in the past few years to comply with their Trade-Related Aspects of IntellectualProperty Rights (TRIPS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445945
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Trade Deficits With Japan
Plosser, Charles I.
For the past six months the Clinton Administration has been engaged in a steadily increasing war of words with the Japanese to pressure them to take concrete actions to reduce their "chronic" trade surplus with the U.S. by committing to quantitative targets for U.S. goods sold in Japanese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483011
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Would Subsidizing a Food Pathogen Vaccine Upset the Food Policy Applecart
Marette, Stephan; Roe, Brian E.; Teisl, Mario F. - 2010
Vaccines against several common foodborne pathogens are being developed and could substantially alter the policy tools available to address foodborne illness. However, little analysis is available to suggest how social welfare would be affected by these new vaccines. To address this void, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446134
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Pollution perception. An inquiry into intergenerational equity
Schuhmacher, Ingmar; Zou, Benteng - 2005
In this article we extend the recent literature on overlapping generations with a pollution sector by allowing generations to have a certain pollution perception with regards to the stock of pollution. Pollution perception, assumed to be part of the generations' preferences, can be either a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009452479