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Compare the recommendations resulting from an environment analysis and from a resources analysis for 'Glaxo Wellcome'. Show the benefits and the limits of each.  

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Compare the recommendations resulting from an environment analysis and from a resources analysis for 'Glaxo Wellcome'. Show the benefits and the limits of each. The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most dynamic and successful business sectors in the UK, with a healthy trade surplus and some of the largest and most successful participants on a global scale, in spite of its relatively small size. The industry is research-driven and there are very high barriers to market entry - primarily the enormous costs and risks in both time and money to bring a new drug to the market, but also in the high degree of regulation both in the UK and abroad. Glaxo SmithKline is undoubtedly the biggest pharmaceutical company in the world with a market capitalization of £140 bn. Even at the time of the Glaxo-Wellcome merger in 1995, where Glaxo took over Wellcome for £9bn it was the biggest...

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