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

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...

Summary: Purpose: The increasing number of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) fostered the development of economic studies in epilepsy. We reviewed this literature to identify and discuss methodologic issues. Methods: We included all studies devoted to cost-based evaluation in epilepy, published in...

Is, or should, healthcare be profitable? Over and above “private” health, does it have an effect on public health? Improved living conditions are sometimes considered to play a more important role in greater life expectancy than medicine. Even though this may have been true in the 19th...

This paper provides an econometric evaluation of the impact of two innovative care programs for elderly people with dementia (day-care centers and group-living) on the well-being of the primary caregiver of patients. For this evaluation, we use data from a survey conducted in six European...

This article analyses the respective impact of aid, remittances and medical brain drain (MBD) on child mortality using panel and cross-country quintile-level data on respectively 84 and 46 developing countries. Our results show that remittances reduce child mortality while MBD increases it....

The insurance of risks associated with health represents a major economical and social issue. The coverage of these risks enables health expenditure to be financed, which represent a significant proportion of national wealth in developed countries (11.2 % of GDP in France in 2008 according to...