Abstract
This study is to investigate the critical success factors for Pakistani pharmaceutical firms. This study conceptualizes knowledge management, image and control as the key indicatorsof critical success factors. This study collects the data from the lower-, middle-, and top-level managers in the pharmaceutical firms in major cities of Pakistan: Lahore, Multan, Islamabad. Thisstudy performs PLS-SEM in analyzing 100 responses obtained through survey forms. Results of the study indicate that knowledge management is the element that gives rise to confession, wage, promotion and the execution of unlike objectives that increase a general exposure of the all stakeholders. It achieves a pleasurable passionate state that frequently prompts a positive organizational performance and competitive advantage. This research puts light on the gaps found in adaptation of critical success factors in Pharmaceutical industry of Pakistan as compared to the developed countries in this sector.
Highlights
Organizational performance depends on identifying critical success factors and allocating appropriate resources to each factor (Ranjan & Bhatnagar, 2008)
We found that the association between knowledge management and competitive advantage is strong (β=0.603, t=28.863, P
The study found that knowledge management promotes competitive advantage in the pharmaceutical industry (H1)
Summary
Organizational performance depends on identifying critical success factors and allocating appropriate resources to each factor (Ranjan & Bhatnagar, 2008). By the mid-nineteenth century, organizations started giving importance to individual qualities (e.g., motivational, individual, physical, and attitudinal) and aptitudes (e.g., capacity to impact) that are related to authority and power (VanWart, 2003; Ranjan & Bhatnagar, 2008; Jenkins, 1947). Administrative control is another key success factor that includes supervisors’ perceived behavior.
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