Historically, the development of budgetary control in French businesses took place within the ideological context of the debate on organisation of the economy following the economic and political crises of the 1930s and 1940s. Budgetary control was seen by many actors as one of the practices...

Budgetary control has developed in France since the 1930s. If the initial importation from the United States was rapid, subsequent development was slow. Diffusion of the technique occurred through a number of mechanisms: professional reviews, books, consultants, think tanks, and through...

Cet ouvrage généraliste, accessible aux non spécialistes et adapté aux techniques de management, présente le contrôle de gestion comme un outil stratégique à travers une approche moderne qui tient compte de l'évolution du métier ces 10 dernières années.

Le développement du contrôle budgétaire dans les entreprises en France s'est fait dans le contexte idéologique des réflexions sur l'organisation économique suscitées par les crises économique et politique des années 1930 et 1940. Le contrôle budgétaire est apparu alors à de nombreux...

Network industries are now characterized by a regime of permanent innovation, while they continue to be fixed and sunk cost industries, due to the high level of investments in R&D and infrastructures. Players in these industries need to coordinate their investments; hence a threat of collusion....

Health expenditure growth is mostly driven by the dynamic of medical innovations and not by population ageing. Do we spend too much, or not enough, for health care? To answer to such a question, one needs an evaluation in monetary units of the value of health and longevity gains obtained as a...