Journal of Business Chemistry October 2015

Consulting firms and many scholars currently try to explain recent developments within the pharmaceutical sector. Established multinational pharma firms are under pressure and rethinking their strategies and business models. Although growth in emerging markets seems possible, capturing this opportunity is yet challenging due to regional differences requiring adaptation e.g. regarding the value proposition, designed distribution […]

Dynamics and interplay among various drivers and competencies in any organizational set-up shape the configurations of the systems black box. Structural flexibility, information management, decision making and leadership are critical components which manage the intra-organizational interactions for a collective meaningful outcome in terms of organizational change capability and superior performance. In the recent past, the […]

Companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities respond to the increasing expectations of society. One of the three dimensions of sustainability, also known as the triple bottom line, is social sustainability. Compared to economic and environmental sustainability, the social dimension is often neglected by companies. Especially actors in the chemical industry are having a great social […]

Health is a key issue in the development of a stable global social, political and economic structure in the 21st century. Better and reasonable health is a global goal. Great progress has been made during the past decades in the biomedical fields in the understanding of diseases, developing new diagnostic technologies and new medicines for […]

Large capital projects such as turnarounds and shutdowns require the management of a vast number of employees and tasks simultaneously. At chemical sites, where assets are highly complex, ensuring that risks are managed properly is of vital importance both to the safety of the workforce and the success of the project as a whole. Within […]