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.
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
Digital dating platforms have become the primary architects of modern intimacy, deploying algorithmic infrastructures that actively colonize the emotional landscape. While scholarship often interrogates dominant dating logics, it frequently neglects the fraught tension that users experience as they are forced to reconcile their private desires with prescriptive, data-driven frameworks. Utilizing consumer interviews, social media observations, and discourse analysis, we apply institutional theory to investigate how users exercise agency under the shadow of competing logics. We identify these logics and elucidate how consumers perform institutional work—adapting to, resisting, or negotiating platform norms—as a means of reclaiming psychological sovereignty from the digital apparatus. Our findings advance the critique of platformization and algorithmic governance by revealing how individuals navigate a landscape where intimacy is engineered, thereby sustaining the very markets that commodify their personal lives.
Background: Regenerative supply chain research seeks to move beyond minimal-harm sustainability toward forms of organizing that preserve, restore, and enhance social–ecological systems. However, existing work often explains regeneration through principles, capabilities, and governance arrangements while giving less attention to the uneven socioecological conditions and appropriative dependencies that shape supply-chain activity. Methods: This conceptual study uses an abductive close reading of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World as a sole-source textual dataset. The analysis combines an immanent reading of the complete monograph with a theory-informed reading that places Tsing’s concepts in dialogue with regenerative supply-chain scholarship. Results: The study develops two linked theoretical shifts. First, it conceptualizes supply chains as patchy socioecological assemblages composed of firms, livelihoods, infrastructures, ecological processes, and disturbance histories that only partially cohere under managerial control. Second, it defines regenerative attunement as the ongoing, place-sensitive reconfiguration of supply-chain scale, timing, governance, and value distribution so that economic activity helps reproduce rather than merely appropriate socioecological capacities. Conclusions: These concepts extend regenerative supply-chain theory by clarifying the relationships among supply-chain structure, value appropriation, temporal plurality, and distributed governance, while providing directions for managerial diagnosis and future empirical research.
