Mohamed Ismail Sabry

• PhD in Economics
• Visiting PostDoc Position at International Institute of Social Studies

This paper investigates the social contract governing the green transition in Morocco. The theoretical framework builds on the literature on social contracts and policy coalitions, while the methodology depends on process tracing and qualitative data collected during fieldtrip visits. Identifying different possible social contracts that characteriz...

This paper investigates how the comparative power of the various state and society collective actors and their utilities from the green transition- as reflected in their perceived losses or gains from the transition- affect the prospects of energy transition in the Arab region. The paper starts with a theoretical discussion in which a mapping of th...

Purpose This paper investigates the effect of state-society relations on the industrially-related growth paths of developed countries. Design/methodology/approach It introduces a novel theoretical framework, the state-business-labor relations (SBLR) framework, where four main actors are identified: the state, big businesspersons or tycoons, owners...

This paper investigates whether changes in policy coalitions could dynamically change the prospects of the energy transition in terms of the degree of its success to meet the set objectives. The comparative power of policy coalitions depends on three important dimensions: the interests from the transition of significant state and society actors, th...

This paper investigates the social contract governing the green transition in Morocco. The theoretical framework builds on the literature on social contracts and policy coalitions, while the methodology depends on process tracing and qualitative data collected during fieldtrip visits. Identifying different possible social contracts that characteriz...

This paper investigates the effect of state‐society relations (SSR) in the industrial sector on the sustainable economic growth of post‐Revolution Tunisia. The empirical part of the paper depends mainly on qualitative data collected from fieldwork interviews with the most important actors and publications of civil society organizations. The paper s...

Institutions influence the behavior of governments who in turn affect society, businesses, and the interactions among them. Understanding how these interactions shape the growth paths of different countries is crucial to monitoring policy outcomes and gauging creditable impact. The Growth Paths of State-Society Relations highlights how different st...

This chapter explores how state–business relations (SBR) in the Arab world influence public policy on industrial clusters and the resulting economic benefits from these clusters on innovation and productivity. The main SBR actors are identified as the state, big capitalists (or tycoons), and small and medium business managers and owners (entreprene...

This paper investigates the effect of state-society relations (SSR) in the industrial sector on sustainable economic growth of post-Revolution Tunisia. The empirical part of the paper depends mainly on qualitative data collected from fieldwork interviews with the most important actors and publications of CSOs. The paper suggests the presence of Sta...

Purpose This paper investigates the factors responsible for the emergence of different arrangements of state–society relations. Being concerned with the relations related to the industrial sector, this study focuses more on state–business–labor relations (SBLRs), especially on power dynamics between the main actors in these relations, namely, the s...

This paper, first, identifies the characteristics of the social contract of post-2011 Revolution Tunisia and, second, investigates the comparative gains/losses of the different considered social actors from this contract. The social contract is perceived as a product of the prevailing state-society relations. State-society relations, on their turn,...

Does good governance matter for exporting to the highly competitive markets of developed countries, especially those committed to a developmental mission centered on promoting good governance? This paper is investigating this research question. The focus of the analysis is the case study of Arab exports to the German economy, where a comparatively...

This paper investigates the effect of state-business relations (SBR) and institutional settings on government decisions to foster innovation in developing countries. It differentiates between informal SBR-based cronyism and formal SBR-based lobbying and how they could influence a government’s decision to implement policies fostering innovation. Aft...

Reflecting on the political-economic order of Egypt during the first decade of the millennium, it is now more conventional to describe this period as one of ‘crony capitalism’. Businesspeople who were connected to government officials, through family ties and close friendships, or through common party membership, dominated the private sector with t...

This paper is trying to investigate whether formal state–business consultations (or simply public private dialogues—PPD) and/or cronyism could counteract low institutional capacities and provide the needed mechanisms for fostering innovation. It is doing this with the help of a theoretical discussion highlighting the links between National Innovati...

Understanding that Innovation is a major determinant of economic growth, this paper is investigating how to foster Innovation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region given the institutional deficiencies suffered in many of its countries. More specifically, this paper is trying to find out how State-Business Relations (SBR) have contribute...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore which socioeconomic and institutional factors are responsible for different societies’ ideological choices, with reference to Marxist socialism. Which factors led to the rise of the popularity of socialism? And which factors made a socialist variant relatively more successful in one society but not t...

Purpose This paper tries to investigate whether formal State Business Relations (F-SBR) lead to economic growth and which institutional variables are responsible for their success in achieving this. Design/methodology/approach Following a theoretical analysis, several hypotheses are presented, and a number of different regression models are bein...

Purpose Why are state business relations in Egypt characterized by widely acknowledged high levels of cronyism? The purpose of this paper is to investigate the institutional factors explaining this research question with a focus on pre-2011 Egypt. Design/methodology/approach Based on a general theoretical discussion, certain institutions were prop...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of Public Private Dialogues (PPD) on cronyism accounting for various cultural and governance institutions. Design/methodology/approach It proposes a number of hypotheses on: whether PPD characterized by high official representation and business representation, through mainly building tru...

This book examines how socioeconomic and institutional factors shaped the development of Socialism and its two contending variants of Social Democracy and Communism, investigating why each of these factions enjoyed varying levels of popularity in different societies between 1848 and 1945. It places a special focus on a number of factors including:...

In today’s world, continuous interactions between government officials and business people in market transactions are inevitable, opening the way for state–business cooperation and, consequently, various forms of state–business relations (SBR). This paper discusses informal SBR and their effect on economic growth. It does so while accounting for va...

This paper tries to investigate a claim presented in many scholarly works that leading figures in the Egyptian Nasserist regime (1954-1970) were ideologically influenced by Interwar European Fascism. It tries to undergo this investigation by pointing to the similarities in ideology and practice between the two movements and discussing other possibl...

Our paper models the interaction between authorities in a country with poor rule of law and a potentially acquisitive agent (e.g., an investor interested in illegitimate land acquisition), whose actions are possibly licensed by the corrupt authorities. We explore this relationship in a two-stage experiment where the authorities have the right to ex...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore theoretically and empirically which institutional factors (including good governance ones) help public-private partnerships (PPP) in providing better infrastructural services, which would then in their turn lead to attracting more private investment for the whole economy. Design/methodology/approa...

This work aims at exploring which institutional (legal, regulatory, political and cultural) and economic factors determine the outcome of state-business networks (SBN) with regard to cronyism and economic growth outcomes. It also tries to identify which among state-business connections, namely social-political connections (SP), Public Private Dialo...

الفهرس المقدمة الباب الأول: عالم ما قبل المواجهة كارل ماركس والحركة الشيوعية- الحركة الاشتراكية والشيوعية فى أوروبا بعد ماركس- المد الشيوعى فى روسيا ما قبل 1917 الباب الثانى: البلاشفة والحكم روسيا نحو الثورة البلشفية- البلاشفة فى الحكم- الحرب الأهلية - المنجل والمطرقة فوق روسيا- ما بعد لينين الباب الثالث: المد الشيوعى فى عالم ما قبل الحرب العالمي...

An integrated industrial structure could not be reached without the presence of a backbone that feeds other industries and creates linkages. What is referred to as heavy industry, especially iron and steel and machinery are the most capable of providing this backbone. Wondering if reinforcing heavy industry in Egypt can provide such a backbone lea...