The Influence of Brexit on Operations of Global Companies in the Pharmaceutical Industry: the Cases of GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca

Student: Zaitseva Anna

Supervisor: Alexandra Zhukova

Faculty: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Educational Programme: International Business (Master)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2018

Our study represents a research on influence of Brexit on operations of global pharmaceutical companies.. We analyzed articles and studies of scholars to create an understanding of internal and external environment for an organization. After that we began to research a phenomenon called Brexit. In our master thesis we firstly created a theoretical base of existing papers on subjects connected to characteristics of Brexit and then analyzed the gained data in second part of our research. Practical base of the research are two case studies of GloaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneсa, where we have studied impact of Brexit on operations of global companies in the pharmaceutical industry on these examples.

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