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We are pleased to publish this regular issue of Mi, which includes 12 high quality articles on a wide range of international management topics. We are particularly grateful to the authors for the quality and richness of their papers, but we would like to take this opportunity to express our deepest appreciation to all the reviewers who have contributed to the quality of Mi’s publications. Many of Mi’s authors comment on how the richness of the work done by Mi’s reviewers allows them to improve their manuscripts. The opinions of Mi reviewers are not only often very detailed, but also often strive to give authors benevolent advice to improve their research. On behalf of the journal, we once again extend our deepest thanks to the reviewers of the journal. Enjoy your reading! In their contribution, “ Moment of Hospitality Entrepreneurship Awareness, Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy, and Entrepreneur Role Identity Aspiration,” Ababacar Mbengue, Nathalie Sarrouy-Watkins, Cheikh Oumar Baldé and Christophe Loué, examine the specific effect of the timing of entrepreneurship awareness (MSE) on entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) and entrepreneurial role identity aspiration (ERIA) as a marker of the transition to the entrepreneurial role. In this research, which is situated in the perspective of works measuring the impact of entrepreneurship education, the authors present an in-depth conceptual analysis and an empirical test with 440 hospitality students sensitized to entrepreneurship in France and Senegal show that EEA mediates a positive relationship between MSE and AIRE. The later the awareness moment, the more it directly increases EEA and indirectly AIRE. Pierre Garaudel, Adrien Laurent, Géraldine Schmidt, and Philippe Eynaud in the article “ Between State and Market: Specific forms and Motives of Inter-Organizational Restructurings (IOR) in the French Nonprofit Field” consider that the literature on inter-organizational restructuring (IOR) in the nonprofit field focuses on mergers observed in the United States, and that despite the diversity of IOR practices, little is known about the French context. An online survey of a large sample of associations highlights the existence of innovative practices in France. The article explores the various forms and motivations of IORs that French associations are adopting in an increasingly restrictive context. Our colleagues’ results show that market mechanisms cannot explain all the diversity observed and corroborate the centrality of social and political perspectives. Philippe Massiéra and Laura Trinchera present in their contribution “Taxonomy of Complementary Marketing Capabilities Configurations in SMEs” a research that focuses on the influence of the internal and external context on the way SMEs orchestrate three marketing capabilities that are recognized as highly complementary: market and demand research capabilities, marketing strategy formulation capabilities, and value proposition management capabilities. The inductive classification approach followed by the authors allowed (i) to observe three marketing configuration profiles (the static profile, the dynamic-agile profile and the dynamic-proactive profile) and (ii) to demonstrate that the organizational alignment of marketing capabilities depends on two specific factors: the degree of uncertainty of the market environment and the level of annual sales. In the article “ Absorptive Capacity, Intellectual Capital: Contribution to a Complex Relationship”, Hadj Nekka and Amal Aribi, start from the observation that the relationship between absorption capacity and intellectual capital has been approached by considering the first concept in its entirety and the second in a partial way. The objective of their contribution is to overcome this limitation. Using a qualitative methodology in four companies, the authors develop a detailed understanding of the two concepts and the interactions of their constituent components. They show that a strong interdependence exists between the three components of intellectual capital even if one of them dominates according to …