In this paper, we suggest a theoretical framework for ambidextrous organization. The relevance of this framework’s is tested by the study of the case of a fast moving consumer goods company. However we suggest to put the management controller role at the core of the ambidexterity logic in...

Les responsables marketing, les hommes de la communication et les financiers s'entendent aujourd'hui pour reconnaître la valeur financière des marques. Les divergences apparaissent dès que les discussions portent sur la définition de cette valeur

Often reduced to a price reduction, sales promotion is very often presented as a commercial technique with damaging effect on brand value. We propose a broader view of this question and first explain why sales promotion can increase price elasticity and so reduce profitbility associated with...

Promoting direct competing brands in the same page of a retailer store flyer has become a current managerial practice. This study questions the relevance of this practice by examining its negative effect on brand and promotion recall. It postulates the existence of an interference effect,...

This research deals with the impact of tobacco warnings modification on smokers. A state of the art on the subject is first presented, then research hypothesis are proposed. Second, eight focus groups are implemented on 48 French smokers. Results showed that French past warnings should had been...

Since the end of the apartheid regime, the number of advertisements casting actors from different racial backgrounds simultaneously has significantly increased. Comments about this development are multi-faceted. While some observers praise this technique as the ideal social mirror of the...

We model comparative advertising as brands pushing up own brand perception and pulling down the brand image of targeted rivals. We watched all TV advertisements for OTC analgesics 2001-2005 to construct matrices of rival targeting and estimate the structural model. These attack matrices identify...

This case explores the aggregate influence of corporate marketing practices on public health and examines the increasingly important issue of the role of targeted marketing strategies by the food and beverage industries in the obesity epidemic. Specifically, it engages a discussion about a...