The global pharmaceutical industry: Case study, The global pharmaceutical industry: Back to the future ?  Sarah Holland Johnson, Whittington and Scholes, Exploring Strategy  11th edition

The global pharmaceutical industry:       

Using the case study, The global pharmaceutical industry: Back to the future ?  Sarah Holland Johnson, Whittington and Scholes, Exploring Strategy  11^th edition

Address the following issues

1. Conduct a macro environmental analysis for the global pharmaceutical industry.
2. Using the five forces model, analyse the pharmaceutical industry. From your analysis, is the industry one which you would describe at the present time as structurally attractive?
3. Identify strategic groups within the global ethical pharmaceutical industry. Describe the strategic choice made by a least one of these   groups and comment on what  might have been  the drivers behind  these  choices and how successful they were
4. How has the “strategic customer” evolved over time for global pharmaceutical companies? What is the impact on the industry’s critical success factors?

Please note that your analysis and evaluation is based entirely on the information provided in the case.  You are not required to update the information in the case or search for additional information.  You will however need to consult academic texts and journals in order to demonstrate your understanding of the models and theory applied and in providing a discussion of the limitations of those models applied.