"Some two decades will shortly have passed since the WTO's Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement came into force in 1995. TRIPS is widely considered to have had a negative impact on access to medicines through its rules on pharmaceutical patents. This volume is the...

Current sustainability and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) research is well advanced in terms of the integration of ecological issues into business management. However, the exploration of strategic approaches to tackle the social dimension of sustainability has been largely neglected. This...

Über Jahrzehnte hinweg lassen sich politische Reformversuche wechselnder Intensität im Gesundheitssystem nachweisen. Der Erfolg blieb ihnen allerdings oftmals versagt. Die Autoren gehen in ihrer empirischen Analyse den Anlässen für Steuerungsversuche in verschiedenen Teilbereichen des...