SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.14 issue2Strategic knowledge management: In search of a knowledge-based organizational modelDimensão ética da conduta das empresas e dos trabalhadores: Factos empíricos de um estudo exploratório realizado em Portugal author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

Related links

  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO

Share


Comportamento Organizacional e Gestão

Print version ISSN 0872-9662

Abstract

KOFINAS, Alexander  and  SAUR-AMARAL, Irina. 25 years of knowledge creation processes in pharmaceutical contemporary trends. Comport. Organ. Gest. [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.2, pp.257-280. ISSN 0872-9662.

The pharmaceutical industry is knowledge and research-intensive. Due to technological, socio-political and organisational changes there has been a continuous evolution in the knowledge base utilized to achieve and maintain competitive advantages in this global industry. There is a gap in analysing the linkages and effects of those changes on knowledge creation processes associated with pharmaceutical R&D activities. Our paper looks to fill this gap. We built on an idiosyncratic research approach - the systematic literature review - and looked to unearth current trends affecting knowledge creation in international/global pharmaceutical R&D. We reviewed scientific papers published between 1980 and 2005. Key findings include promising trends in pharmaceutical innovation and human resource management, and their potential implications on current R&D practices within the pharmaceutical industry, from managerial and policy-making perspectives.

Keywords : Knowledge creation; pharmaceutical industry; systematic review; global R & D.

        · abstract in Portuguese     · text in English     · English ( pdf )