Search Results - subject:"capabilities' approach"

The capabilities approach and values of sustainability: Towards an inclusive Pedagogy

Sanz Ponce, Roberto; Peris Cancio, José A.; Escámez … - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 3 (2018) 2, pp. 76-81

towards sustainability, a goal assigned by UNESCO. The method used is hermeneutic. The conclusions are: the capabilities … approach defends the values required for sustainability and this approach convincingly argues for the political principles and …

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Enfoque de las capacidades

León Tamayo, Dorian Fernando - 2018

The capabilities approach is an appropriate conceptual framework to identify not the happiness or satisfaction of the … people, but rather, what they may or may not be or do. Consequently, the capabilities approach focuses on the real freedom of … document sets as an objective to provide an approximation to the capabilities approach. …

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Big Data Capability, Customer Agility, and Organization Performance : A Dynamic Capability Perspective

Hassna, Ghazwan; Lowry, Paul Benjamin - 2018

This paper responds to the continual call from both academic scholars and industry professionals to theorize about the influence of “big data” on organization competitiveness and performance. To resolve the ambiguity surrounding “big data” term we propose a new construct called “big...

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Including the Excluded - Can ICTs Empower Poor Communities? Towards an Alternative Evaluation Framework Based on the Capability Approach

Gigler, Bjorn-Soren - 2018

Under which conditions can information and communications technologies (ICTs) empower poor communities? This paper investigates this question, focusing on the role of information and communications technologies in promoting indigenous people’s development in Latin America. First, the paper...

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Reflecting on Islamic Development Process and Sen's Capabilities Approach

Jan, Shafiullah - 2018

Islamic development process and Sen's capabilities approach. The framework explains how human wellbeing is formed by the … system objectives as knowledge, work, and social welfare through enabled freedom, and functioning. Sens's Capabilities … Approach (CA) provides an important theoretical framework while reflecting upon Islamic development. Development in the context …

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Contrasting Theoretical and Case-Related Thinking in Poverty Alleviation : A Framework Based on the Capability Approach

Juhász, Judit - 2018

The capability approach of Amartya Sen focuses on the freedom of individuals, their real opportunity to lead a life they have a reason to value. Within this framework, poverty is not solely the lack of material goods, but the lack of valuable doings and beings one has the freedom to choose. The...

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Conclusions : Upgrading Capabilities to Build an Emerging Market Multinational

Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro - 2018

This chapter explains how the lessons derived from the analysis of Mexican multinationals, MultiMexicans, in a variety of industries contribute to a better understanding of the strategies used by emerging market firms to upgrade capabilities and internationalize. The chapter explains two main...

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Organizational integration of the IT function : a key enabler of firm capabilities and performance

Ricciardi, Francesca; Zardini, Alessandro; Rossignoli, … - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 3 (2018) 3, pp. 93-107

Organizational integration between intra- and inter-organizational subsystems is an important factor of operational coordination, innovation, and strategic effectiveness. Scholars have mainly focused on the organizational integration of three sub-systems: production/operations, marketing/sales,...

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Understanding the capabilities for digital innovations from a digital technology perspective

Wiesböck, Florian; Hess, Thomas - 2018

With this study, we want to take a first step in this direction and try to develop a basic understanding of the capabilities for digital innovations (henceforth: digital innovation capabilities (DIC)) from a digital technology perspective. Such a perspective argues that digital innovations are...

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Resilience to economic shrinking : a social capability approach to processes of catching up in the Developing World 1951-2016

Andersson, Martin - 2018

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