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Äitien pyrkimykset ja toimintamahdollisuuksien valikko : käsitteellinen tutkimus äitien taloudellisista toimintamahdollisuuksista
2018
This study addresses the conceptual outlines of the financial capabilities of moth- ers. It examines how the perspectives and concepts of the capability approach can be utilized in outlining the relationship between motherhood and financial aspects. The aim is to develop conceptual tools for analyzing the choices and financial agency of mothers. This study emphasizes the methodological dimension using three elements: the capability approach, feminist economics and memory work. The main element of the study is the capability approach, which provides the perspective of the inquiry and the concepts for analysis. Feminist economics provides a definition of economy and a way to produce knowledge…
Zdolności logistyczne w kształtowaniu obsługi klienta
2022
Wciąż rosnąca konkurencja skłania przedsiębiorstwa do poszukiwania źródeł przewagi konkurencyjnej. Istotnym elementem tworzenia tej przewagi jest obsługa klienta. Właściwie realizowana obsługa klienta pozwala osiągnąć satysfakcję i zadowolenie klienta, co umożliwia tworzenie i utrzymywanie przewagi konkurencyjnej. Jednym ze sposobów właściwego kształtowania obsługi klienta są zdolności przedsiębiorstw, w tym zdolności logistyczne. Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie znaczenia zdolności logistycznych w kształtowaniu obsługi klienta. W artykule przedstawiono (1) koncepcję zdolności logistycznych, (2) istotę, fazy i elementy obsługi klienta, (3) transformację podejścia do obsługi klienta w kier…
Análisis del papel mediador de las capacidades de innovacion tecnológica en la relación entre la form’a organizativa flexible y el desempeño organiza…
2010
ResumenEste trabajo examina la relación entre la forma organizativa flexible y el desempeño organizativo tomando como variables mediadoras las capacidades para la innovación tecnológica, basándose para ello en los postulados del Enfoque Basado en Recursos. Esta cuestión de investigación es importante porque nos permite comprender mejor las variables antecedentes de la capacidad de innovación tecnológica relacionadas con el diseño organizativo y sus efectos en el desempeno organizativo. Para el contraste empírico se toma una muestra de 159 empresas industriales españolas y se modeliza un sistema de ecuaciones estructurales mediante la técnica Partial Least Squares (PLS). Los resultados muest…
Capability to be educated : inspiring and inclusive pedagogical arrangements from Finnish schools
2018
AbstractThe idea and concept of inclusive education have been debated, and different interpretations of what inclusion means and to whom it concerns have been presented. In this paper, we bring together notions of inclusive quality education, pedagogy, learning and teachers, and illustrate how the principle(s) of inclusion(s) has been enacted and translated into classroom practices in Finnish context. Drawing from Finnish teachers’ narratives, we highlight successful, small-scale and creative pedagogical arrangements and teachers’ sensitivity to recognize and commit to responding to the needs of diverse learners. Our argumentation is rooted in the capabilities approach. We carry out an eval…
Building sustainable contextual ambidexterity through routines: a case study from information technology firms
2020
The purpose of this paper is to explain the role that routines play in achieving sustainable organisational ambidexterity in information technology (IT) firms. Our exploratory analysis of four case studies reveals the key importance of routines in setting the context for sustainable ambidexterity. Companies build up contextual ambidexterity through routines derived from normalization of processes, normalization of skills, and normalization of results. The findings of the study show that routines support IT professionals to decide whether to exploit or explore in each particular case. Firstly, the enabling character of explicit routines as a result of the normalisation of work processes and …
La economía social ¿alternativa a la gestión pública o vanguardia de la privatización de servicios? Una definición del sector de servicios de apoyo a…
2001
A number of social economy organizations with different legal forms have appeared in Spain since the eighties and have developed a growing activity in the provision of personal support services, usually in the private management of public services and occasionally in the private sector. The novelty of this type of organization, the peculiarities of their origin and business development, their uncertain future and the relevance of the experience accumulated in the short but intensive years of their existence - as well as their importance in job creation and in training professionals in social intervention - justify a detailed study of their current situation with regard to resource bases and…
Applying the Capabilities Approach to Ecosystems
2017
The capabilities approach has attracted broad interest in environmental ethics. One very interesting application is the environmental or extended capabilities approach which promotes the notion of environmental capabilities that contribute to the flourishing of non-human beings and ecological systems. The approach however lacks any account of the capabilities of ecological systems. This essay applies the environmental capabilities approach at the ecosystem level and examines how the flourishing of an ecosystem can be understood in terms of capabilities. Ecosystem flourishing presumes the ability of a given system to maintain its characteristic functions, diversity and quality, and do so eve…
Using language to help people, or using people to help language? A capabilities framework of language policy
2023
Language policy is a hugely diverse field, united only by the intent to influence language use in some way. Much early research in the field asserted that language policy had an emancipatory drive, to empower downtrodden minorities against the cruelty or indifference of majoritarian politics. But over the years, critical accounts have increasingly questioned who precisely benefits from promoting minoritized languages. Indeed, can the language itself, valorized as an emblem of heritage, sometimes become invested with its own separate value? Can that value even outweigh concerns over improving people's prospects and capabilities? In what follows, I compare that balance between people's capabi…
The Value Creation Process in Family Firms. A Dynamic Capabilities Approach
2008
While most family-business research has focused on studies related with trans-generational value creation, a gap still exists in understanding how this value is generated across genera-tions, especially in dynamic markets. The present research offers new insights through the lens of dynamic capabilities, which are generated by knowledge and in turn generate entre-preneurial performance for value creation in family business. Family inertia is considered to be a factor preventing the creation of dynamic capabilities. It depends on the family-business culture, where paternalism and entrepreneurial drive influence family inertia posi-tively and negatively, respectively. Four family firms from S…
Koncepcja dynamicznych zdolności jako podstawa rozwoju kompetencji przedsiębiorstwa
2016
Przedsiębiorstwa stale poszukują sposobów tworzenia przewagi konkurencyjnej. Wśród czynników oddziałujących na tworzenie przewagi konkurencyjnej ważne miejsce zajmują potencjały sukcesu przedsiębiorstwa, które obejmują: (1) zasoby, (2) zdolności oraz (3) kompetencje. Z kolei, wśród różnorodnych zdolności przedsiębiorstwa, szczególne znaczenie przypisuje się tzw. dynamicznym zdolnościom. Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie możliwości wykorzystania koncepcji dynamicznych zdolności w kształtowaniu i rozwoju kompetencji przedsiębiorstwa.