The IPAG Business School (formerly Institut de préparation à l’administration et à la gestion) is a French private business school founded in 1965 by Jacques Rueff. It is located in Paris, Nice, Los Angeles and Kunming.
Although institutional quality is widely recognised as important for environmental performance, less is known about whether the governance-energy relationship varies across levels of institutional capacity. This study examines the relationship between inclusive governance, energy intensity, and CO2 emissions volatility across 71 developing economies in the context of an increasingly fragmented global energy system. We focus on whether the governance-energy relationship varies across levels of institutional capacity. Inclusive governance is measured using a composite index incorporating political institutional quality, gender representation, and income equality. The empirical analysis uses a piecewise panel specification based on the sample median of inclusive governance, with system-GMM and local-projection estimates providing supplementary sensitivity evidence. Inclusive governance is negatively and significantly associated with energy intensity in both governance regimes in the baseline specification, with a somewhat stronger association in the higher-governance regime. However, this nonlinear pattern is sensitive to alternative estimators and breakpoints and is therefore interpreted as suggestive rather than definitive. In contrast, inclusive governance is not significantly associated with CO2 emissions volatility across most specifications. These findings indicate that the relationship between governance and environmental performance may be outcome-specific: institutional capacity is more clearly associated with energy efficiency than with emissions volatility. The results are interpreted as conditional associations rather than causal effects and suggest that the environmental relevance of governance may vary with both institutional capacity and the outcome being examined.
This study examines how firms operating in emerging-economy contexts build organizational resilience, emphasizing the entrepreneurial mechanisms through which strategic resources are transformed into adaptive capacity. Drawing on perspectives from international entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities, the study argues that entrepreneurial ambidexterity is a core factor enabling firms to navigate uncertainty and technological turbulence. Using survey data from 588 firms across multiple industries in Middle Eastern countries, the study employs structural equation modeling to test mediation and moderation effects. The findings show that organizational capabilities and resource alignment enhance organizational resilience primarily through entrepreneurial ambidexterity, which facilitates opportunity exploration and exploitation under volatile conditions. Technological turbulence further conditions these relationships, shaping the effectiveness of entrepreneurial responses to environmental change. By theorizing resilience as an entrepreneurial outcome rather than a static organizational attribute, this study advances international entrepreneurship research by explaining how firms in emerging markets enact resilience through ambidextrous entrepreneurial action in turbulent international environments. The findings extend dynamic capabilities theory by demonstrating how international and technological turbulence jointly influence entrepreneurial adaptation beyond developed-economy settings.
The increasing significance of the concept of improvisation to understand how to better organize calls for more research on combinations of intuition, creativity, and bricolage. While prior studies have investigated the role of improvisation in organisations, there have been few, if any, studies that have systematically examined the relationship between intuition, creativity, and bricolage, three degrees of improvisation (minor, bounded and structural) and three levels of application (individual, interpersonal and organizational). In this research, we developed and explored a matrix model with these elements which lead to the identification of three organisational focuses, namely the constructivist, structuralist, and behavioural focus. The model was then applied to a proof-of-concept carried out over two years in the Chinese subsidiary of a German industrial group. Data from twelve semi structured interviews, three focus groups and internal documents have been triangulated. The study focuses on the post-implementation period of SAP and on the determinant factors that lead to different types of improvisations which were instrumental for the success of SAP in the organisation. We found that the improvisations performed in the post-implementation context of SAP have a clear correspondence with a constructivist organizational focus in terms of organizational coexistence and institutional legitimization. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for the following: management tools to channel improvisations, organisational implication in terms of selection and development of the potential of workers according to their capacities and their attitudes toward the organisation's focus, strategic alignment between organisational focus, performance, and resource allocation.
Purpose This study investigates how digital literacy, entrepreneurial orientation and digital networks drive entrepreneurial success directly and indirectly through digital innovation among Middle Eastern Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), and whether environmental turbulence moderates these direct and mediated relationships. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the resource-based view and dynamic capabilities theory, a moderated mediation model is proposed and analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling on data collected from SME founders, co-founders and senior managers. Findings Entrepreneurs' digital literacy, entrepreneurial orientation and digital networks each positively influence both digital innovation and entrepreneurial success. Digital innovation fully mediates all three capability-to-success pathways. Environmental turbulence negatively moderates all direct capability-to-outcome relationships and all mediated pathways through digital innovation, confirming full moderated mediation and establishing that high turbulence systematically attenuates the performance returns to internal capabilities. Practical implications Policymakers and ecosystem builders in the Middle East should invest in digital skills development and platform accessibility as foundational prerequisites for entrepreneurial performance, while recognizing that capability-building interventions yield diminishing returns without concurrent efforts to stabilize the regulatory and macroeconomic environment. Originality/value This study is among the first to validate digital innovation as a mediating mechanism between antecedent digital capabilities and entrepreneurial success in a Middle East and North Africa (MENA) context, and the first to demonstrate that environmental turbulence conditions the full mediation chain rather than discrete direct paths alone. The findings reframe environmental turbulence as a structural performance ceiling that no level of the internal capabilities under analysis full accumulation can fully overcome without parallel institutional stabilization, advancing both resource-based and dynamic capability theorizing in emerging market entrepreneurship. Highlights
