Prizes & Awards
Winner of the Case Centre Awards and Competitions 1997 in the Category 'Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour'
Summary
The (A) case describes the merger of SmithKline and Beecham in the context of the pharmaceutical industry in the late 1980s, and the firm's organisational change efforts in the five years after the merger.
Teaching objectives
The case provides a rich discussion of the strategic, organisational, and cultural issues in the various phases in corporate transformation. The case also facilitates a rich discussion of the issues of: equal mergers; culture change; organisational change; strategic change; the management of large complex firms; and the role of top management in change efforts.
Keywords
- Merger
- Culture Change
- Organisationnal Change
- Corporate Transformation
