Word from the editor

This new issue of Management International (MI) is comprised of a thematic file that takes three articles from Atlas-AFMI Association’s annual conference; and ten contributions (nine articles plus a research note) selected according to MI’s normal modus operandi. The thematic file - presented by our colleagues François Goxe and Michaël Viegas Pires, from MI’s Atlas-AFMI French-language section – is organised around the topic of “Crisis and adaptation in international management”. The three papers featuring in this selection all come from Atlas-AFMI’s 11th Annual Conference, which was held in May 2021. The questions they address are fundamental in the field of international management and include the effects of exogenous shocks; the variety of modes used to manage diversity in international organisations that have (or will soon have) developed this quality – and how subsequent managerial choices affect their internationalisation processes; and the various dimensions that constitute diversity (and the measurement thereof). A very warm thanks to our two colleagues who, as guest co-editors-in-chief, have done a very rigorous job of selecting and synthesizing content to compile a thematic file of great quality. Thanks as well as to all our Atlas-AFMI colleagues for their precious ongoing support for the journal. The following articles have been chosen in line with the journal’s regular protocol. In their article “Multi-Business Models Strategy and Disruption. Carrefour’s Conquest of the Organic Market“, Arthur Caré and Pierre Roy analyse how an established company might run a succession of business models (BM) as part of a disruption strategy aimed at gaining advantage over new market entrants. The study finds that established companies who have built a BM portfolio are better equipped to withstand disruption; and that managing such portfolios in a strategic perspective facilitates the subsequent conquest of mass markets. The research is entails a longitudinal case study focusing on Carrefour and the strategy it adopted in the French food distribution sector to cope with disruption in organic farming. Guillaume Plaisance’s contribution, “French non-profit organisations facing the Covid-19 crisis: A resources and stakeholders approach”, looks to determine how useful stakeholder and resource dependency theories are in analysing French non-profits’ response to the recent pandemic. It is a broad investigation that passes these theories through a societal orientation filter and operationalises them in such a way as to highlight the positive effects of maintaining short-term performance governance mechanisms; the positive effects of stakeholders’ being dependent on a societal orientation; but also the negative effects for viability, including as a result of the way that roles differentiate depending on the societal orientation’s timeframe. Yves Plourde’s article “The geographic scope of environmental problems and the impact of internal support on the success of local interventions of international NGO: The case of Greenpeace” is an attempt to improve understanding of the way in which international support affects the implementation of environmental NGOs’ local interventions. The study examines 102 interventions carried out by five of Greenpeace’s national-level organisations in Europe. The results show that the benefits of international support depend in part on the geographic scope of the issues that the NGO is addressing. Whereas interventions targeting international problems benefit from an organisation’s international support, others targeting local problems are more likely to succeed when carried out without this input. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications for the management of NGOs and for theories of management. In their article “Territorial resilience and financial resilience: What conceptual and practical articulation? Exploratory study on the resilience strategies of 8 European cities”, Céline du Boys and Bruno Tiberghien take as their starting point the observation that local authorities are being increasingly challenged by the …