TY - JOUR A1 - Gaidos, Alexandra Theodora T1 - CSR boundaries in the pharmaceutical industry: Is outsourcing of clinical trials to developing countries really unethical? JF - Journal of European Management & Public Affairs Studies N2 - Does life have a different price according to the country where people are born? Should there be a customized definition of ethics in function of the country where clinical trials are being carried on? The actual international regulatory environment proves to be inadequate to guarantee a fair treatment of patients involved in drug trials around the world, a situation which is proven by the case of India. The incapacity of Indian national regulators to efficiently monitor trials and enforce the law, as well as the increasing use of outsourcing in clinical trials gives place to abuse of patients’ rights in the name of science or for corporate profits. The article aspires to make a modest contribution to this field by analyzing to what extent pharmaceutical companies are interested in perpetuating the diffuse area around the responsibility and ethics of drug trials in developing countries. Moreover, it offers suggestions as to how they can improve their CSR practices. KW - bioethics KW - clinical trial KW - contract research organization KW - drug trial KW - ethics KW - outsourcing KW - pharmaceutical industry Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-2903 SN - 2199-1618 VL - 1 IS - 1 SP - 27 EP - 32 ER -