This paper presents an alternative, “Latin” vision of our societies. Here the urgent societal issue is not to celebrate freedom from social constraints, but to re‐establish communal embeddedness. The citizen of 2002 is less interested in the objects of consumption than in the social links...

Purpose: This paper aims to focus on brand oldness associations and their measurement. Research on brand age points to a variety of interpretations concerning perceived brand oldness and establishes the existence of multiple positive consequences such as brand credibility, trust or attachment....

La construction d'une échelle de mesure du sentiment de " chez-soi " est entreprise. La revue de littérature et les premiers résultats empiriques sont présentés ici. Trois terrains qualitatifs, l'intervention d'experts académiques et professionnels puis deux terrains quantitatifs...