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dc.contributor.authorWitkowska, Janina
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-21T14:09:48Z
dc.date.available2018-09-21T14:09:48Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn1508-2008
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/25790
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this paper is to discuss the common features and specificity of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices of innovative transnational corporations (TNCs) acting in the pharmaceutical industry. The innovativeness of pharmaceutical firms is understood here as their ability to make a breakthrough in the treatment of rare, incurable diseases. The examination of the issue leads to the conclusion that the specificity of CSR in this industry is related to the contradiction between the economic and social/ethical aspects of innovation processes in this field. A key issue of CSR in the innovative pharmaceutical industry seems to be the pricing of drugs, especially orphan and ultra‑orphan drugs, resulting in patients from less developed countries having limited access to life‑saving medicines or those that improve the quality of life. Corporations use their monopolistic position to set extremely high prices. However, without the market/marketing exclusivity offered to pharmaceutical firms by the law, orphan drugs would probably not be developed, produced and commercialized. Traditional CSR practices (corporate philanthropy, community and neighborhood programs, volunteerism etc.) cannot be treated as sufficient ‘compensation’ for the high prices of medicines. Real, true CSR in the innovative pharmaceutical industry requires either abandoning or reducing extreme monopolistic privileges and offering medicines for rare diseases at lower prices.en_GB
dc.description.abstractCelem artykułu jest dyskusja nad ogólnymi cechami społecznej odpowiedzialności przedsiębiorstw (CSR) i specyfiką praktyk podejmowanych w tym zakresie przez innowacyjne korporacje transnarodowe, działające w przemyśle farmaceutycznym. Innowacyjność firm farmaceutycznych rozumiana jest tu jako ich zdolność do dokonywania przełomu w leczeniu rzadkich, nieuleczalnych chorób. Analiza tego problemu prowadzi do wniosku, że specyfika CSR w tym przemyśle jest związana ze sprzecznością, jaka ujawnia się między ekonomicznymi i społecznymi/etycznymi aspektami procesów innowacyjnych. Kluczową kwestią społecznej odpowiedzialności przedsiębiorstw w innowacyjnym przemyśle farmaceutycznym wydaje się być wycena leków, a w szczególności tzw. leków na choroby sieroce i ultra‑sieroce, a co za tym idzie ograniczony dostęp pacjentów z mniej rozwiniętych krajów do leków ratujących życie bądź poprawiających jakość ich życia. Korporacje wykorzystują swoją monopolistyczna pozycję do ustanawiania ekstremalnie wysokich cen tych leków. Jednak bez przyznanej im prawnie rynkowej wyłączności, leki na choroby sieroce nie powstałyby i nie zostały wprowadzone na rynek. Tradycyjne praktyki CSR (filantropia, programy na rzecz społeczności lokalnych, wolontariat itp.) nie mogą być traktowane jako wystarczająca „kompensata” za wysokie ceny leków. Rzeczywista, prawdziwa społeczna odpowiedzialność w innowacyjnym przemyśle farmaceutycznym wymaga rezygnacji z monopolistycznych przywilejów bądź ich zmniejszenia i zaoferowanie leków na rzadkie choroby po niższych cenach.pl_PL
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegoen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesComparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe;3
dc.subjectCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR)en_GB
dc.subjectinnovative pharmaceutical corporationsen_GB
dc.subjectorphan drugsen_GB
dc.subjectaccess to drugsen_GB
dc.subjectBIOGENen_GB
dc.subjectspołeczna odpowiedzialność przedsiębiorstw (CSR)pl_PL
dc.subjectinnowacyjne korporacje farmaceutycznepl_PL
dc.subjectleki sierocepl_PL
dc.subjectdostęp do lekówpl_PL
dc.subjectBIOGENpl_PL
dc.titleCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Innovative Pharmaceutical Corporations. The Case of BIOGENen_GB
dc.title.alternativeSpołeczna odpowiedzialność (CSR) innowacyjnych korporacji farmaceutycznych. Studium przypadku BIOGENpl_PL
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.rights.holder© Copyright by Authors, Łódź 2018; © Copyright for this edition by Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2018en_GB
dc.page.number[45]-62
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationFull Professor at the University of Lodz, Institute of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Lodz
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dc.contributor.authorEmailjanwit@uni.lodz.pl
dc.identifier.doi10.2478/cer-2018-0018
dc.relation.volume21en_GB
dc.subject.jelM14
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