Title :
Research on the model and strategy of drug knowledge transfer process in pharmaceutical marketing channels
Author :
Zhang, Xumei ; Li, Xueqin
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Econ. & Bus. Adm., Chongqing Univ., Chongqing, China
Abstract :
As a kind of special commodity, the purchase and usage of the drug usually need doctors´ guidance. Whether drug knowledge can be transferred effectively from pharmaceutical enterprises to physicians and patients in the pharmaceutical marketing channel is the key factor to decide patients´ reasonable purchase and using behaviors of drugs. In this paper, the drug knowledge of pharmaceutical marketing channel is classified and the characteristics of drug knowledge are analyzed based on the characteristics of drugs. The model of drug knowledge transferring is established with different marketing channel setting and the corresponding strategy of knowledge transferring in the pharmaceutical marketing channel is also put forward.
Keywords :
drugs; knowledge management; marketing; pharmaceutical industry; drug behaviors; drug knowledge transfer process model; drug knowledge transfer process strategy; knowledge transferring strategy; marketing channel setting; pharmaceutical enterprises; pharmaceutical marketing channels; Companies; Drugs; Hospitals; Knowledge transfer; Marketing and sales; knowledge transfer; model; pharmaceutical marketing channel; strategy; supply chain;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD), 2012 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sichuan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0025-4
DOI :
10.1109/FSKD.2012.6233959