Van Egeraat, Chris and Breathnach, Proinnsias (2008) The drivers of transnational subsidiary evolution: the upgrading of process R&D in the Irish pharmaceutical industry (NIRSA) Working Paper Series. No. 38. Working Paper. NIRSA - National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis.
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Abstract
This paper contributes to the theory of subsidiary evolution in large corporations
through an examination of the driving forces behind recent upgrading of process R&D
activities in the Irish pharmaceutical industry. It is based on a survey of 80
pharmaceutical establishments in Ireland and a follow-up set of 52 semi-structured,
face-to-face interviews with senior staff at 12 of the surveyed establishments carried
out in 2006. We show that vigorous growth is occurring in the incidence of process
R&D activity among manufacturing subsidiaries of transnational pharmaceutical
firms located in Ireland. The paper supports the utility of a multi-level systems
perspective on subsidiary evolution as proposed by Tavares (2001). The external
environment, internal (corporate) environment and subsidiary drivers are seen to drive
upgrading in a systemic way, whereby various drivers mutually interact, co-evolve
and operate through each other. In further support of Tavares, the primary drivers for
the subsidiaries’ enhanced role lie in the (global) external environment, notably in the
industrial competitive structure and technological change.
Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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Keywords: | Research and development; manufacturing; subsidiary evolution; corporate development; NIRSA |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA |
Item ID: | 1148 |
Identification Number: | 38 |
Depositing User: | NIRSA Editor |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2009 12:24 |
Publisher: | NIRSA - National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/1148 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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