abstract the research and development sector in the pharmaceutical industry is very complex, and companies are constantly engaging in competition with each other for opening of their new products. in fact, the generic producers because principally have no research and development programs, are economically able to offer their products to the market with lower prices. finally, this difference in...

UMIST 2002 PDF Version 2 Acknowledgments I would like to thank my supervisor, Dr Daniel Kirschen, for his valuable guidance and constant support. Abstract Conventional Economic Modelling (CEM) can be successfully employed to describe different financial equilibria. Its ability, though, to provide insights into the strategic behaviour of generating companies competing in the new, restructured el...

The 1994 Reigle-Neal Act gave multistate bank holding companies the option to convert to an interstate branch bank structure by authorizing the merger of bank subsidiaries across state lines. Over the following five year period, an increasing number of banking companies, including a number of very large ones, have done so. As a result, large companies operating through interstate branches have ...

Throughout the software products industry, companies everywhere strive for a common goal: to develop and deliver a software product that reaches a dominant position in the marketplace. To achieve this goal, the software team must deliver the right product to the market -one that meets the individual user's needs, has the right features, and delivers the right benefits, including economic advant...

The total global pharmaceutical market was estimated at around US $343 billion (bn) in 1999 and registered a 10% growth in 1999 compared to 6-7% p.a. in the past three years. The industry is characterised by high fragmentation with the top ten companies accounting for only around 36% of the prescription pharmaceutical market in 1998. However, consolidation in the industry has resulted in an inc...

Mergers and Acquisitions are important corporate strategy actions that aid the firm in external growth and provide it competitive advantage. In today’s globalized economy, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are being increasingly used the world over, for improving competitiveness of companies through gaining greater market share, broadening the portfolio to reduce business risk, for entering new ma...

NVESTORS, world over, are currently demanding more shareholder value than just high returns. Maximising shareholders value has always been the ultimate aim of every company. Investors are very keen in assessing the corporate financial performance that correlate with shareholders wealth particularly the market price of a share. Traditional performance measures like return on investment, earnings...

healthcare and Ranbaxy have been bought by Abbott and Daiichi Sankyo, respectively.[3] Cipla, an indigenous company, lone with a market share of about 5.4% tops the list of top 10 companies in India. The increasing presence of foreign companies among the top pharmaceutical companies in India is may be due to a few buyouts which happened in the recent past. Daiichi Sankyo, a leading Japanese pha...