The biotech revolution in big pharma organisation
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Chiaroni, D.; Chiesa, V.; Toletti, G.
- Source
- IEMC '03 Proceedings. Managing Technologically Driven Organizations: The Human Side of Innovation and Change Managing technologically driven organizations Engineering Management Conference, 2003. IEMC '03. Managing Technologically Driven Organizations: The Human Side of Innovation and Change. :514-518 2003
- Subject
- Engineering Profession
General Topics for Engineers
Drugs
Biotechnology
Organizational aspects
Production
Genomics
Bioinformatics
Research and development
Pharmaceutical technology
Medical services
Instruments
- Language
Biotechnology set two major changes in the pharmaceutical sector: (i) it changed the research process, through the introduction of new technologies; (ii) it paved the way to the new healthcare paradigm of the personalised medicines. In response to these changes, the organisational structure at each level must be modified. This task represents a major challenge particularly for big pharmas. The paper evaluates biotech-led changes on organisational structures of big pharmas. The work is based on the analysis of the organisations of the first ten pharmaceutical companies sorted by market capitalisation.