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The purpose of this study is to investigate how French business schools managed the change to Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) during the COVID-19 lockdown and to propose a rudimentary framework based on the Technology Acceptance Model.

This paper uses exploratory in-depth case studies in four French business schools to analyze the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the transition to Emergency Remote Teaching and whether it may lead to long-term Online Learning.

Results of this study show that, despite several constraints, French business schools efficiently managed the transition to Emergency Remote Teaching. The findings also suggest that schools may provide Online Learning as way to increase their course offerings.

This paper contributes to the extant literature on COVID-19 and organizational management by being one of the first studies to explore how French business schools made the transition to Emergency Remote Teaching and its potential long-term impact. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper to apply the Technology Acceptance Model to the digital transformation of the French business schools during COVID-19.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the state of French medium sized business schools in the Grandes Ecole sector of education and how networks and alliances help business schools survive in an ever-changing and global environment.

The material for empirical research for this paper was gathered by using a case study method of four small to medium sized provincial Institutions of Management Education in France.

The paper demonstrates that all of the business schools studied rely on networks and alliances to face globalisation and internationalise their strategy and seems to follow the three typologies of mergers and acquisitions set down by Napier (1989): extension mergers, collaborative mergers and redesign mergers. At present, the networks and alliances are used on a marginal or peripheral way by networking only a part of the institution at one time.

Further research at a later date needs to be carried out in order to observe if the pattern will remain or if there may be networks which will start from the core of the institution since the organisations will in the future have more of an international or global culture.

The value of this paper is to demonstrate that medium-sized business schools can compensate their limited resources and compete in the global education market. Alliances and networks appear as key ways in achieving goals of sustainability and survival.

Analyzes the nature of purchase decision making and buyer‐seller relationship development in the French food processing industry. It is the result of a detailed empirical study undertaken among 30 firms and international suppliers, and part of a larger research project. Intensive face‐to‐face interviews were carried out with purchasing executives drawn from 30 firms operating in the industry. Confirms the need for suppliers to understand in greater detail factors that buyers regard as decisive in their choice of a supplier as well as those that are pivotal in the development of long‐term relationships. A detailed understanding of these factors would aid suppliers in better formulating appropriate market entry and growth strategies in this increasingly competitive environment.