Marketing and Pricing Strategies of Blockbuster Drugs in the South Korean Market: A 15-Year Retrospective Cohort Study for Choline Alfoscerate
- 주제(키워드) competition , marketing and pricing strategies , pharmaceuticals , pharmaceutical expenditure , South Korea
- 주제(기타) Pharmacology & Pharmacy
- 설명문(일반) [Park, Jeewon; Bae, SeungJin; Son, Kyung-Bok] Ewha Womans Univ, Coll Pharm, Seoul, South Korea; [Lee, Tae-Jin] Seoul Natl Univ, Inst Hlth & Environm, Seoul, South Korea; [Lee, Tae-Jin] Seoul Natl Univ, Dept Publ Hlth Sci, Grad Sch Publ Hlth, Seoul, South Korea
- 등재 SCIE, SCOPUS
- OA유형 Green Published, gold
- 발행기관 FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
- 발행년도 2020
- 총서유형 Journal
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000168929
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2020.00232
- PubMed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32210817
초록/요약
Introduction Understanding marketing strategies and price competition among manufacturers is essential to manage health care expenditures, particularly those related to blockbuster drugs. Objectives To assess marketing and pricing strategies of blockbuster drugs in South Korea. Methods Baseline information on manufacturers who were granted marketing approval for choline alfoscerate in various forms was retrieved. Accumulation of manufacturers in the market was also identified, and manufacturers were categorized into first movers and latecomers based on their marketing time. Then, an event history analysis and a regression analysis were applied to estimate the duration of marketing and their price competition. Results Currently, 109, 83, and 26 manufacturers produce choline alfoscerate in capsule, tablet, or syrup form, respectively, indicating that many manufacturers have marketed generics and the majority of the generics are categorized as latecomers. The size of the manufacturer was a significant factor in marketing new medicines, while the variable was not related to the marketing of modified drugs. Furthermore, price competition in the market was rare and only a few major firms initiated price competition. Conclusion The Korean market appears to be an example of perfect competition when we focus on the number of manufacturers. However, the market is near-monopolistic when examining the price of generic drugs. While product competition between different forms of drugs is effective in lowering price, product competition within the same form of a drug does not exist in the market.
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