... information on websites of four large pharmaceutical companies headquartered in an EU country. The pharmaceutical industry was chosen as a sector of interest because it has not been the main focus of research on the sustainability of global supply chains, although its adverse social and environmental impacts...

... on pharmaceutical processes and product patent protection. Additionally, existing pharmaceutical regulation must remove product restrictions on the multinational pharmaceutical industry (Azam and Richardson, 2010a , 2010b). These changes will also have impacts on the Department of Patents, Designs and Trademarks...