In recent decades, there has been growing interest in intrapreneurial capabilities. The intrapreneurship and strategic management literatures have insights for entrepreneurs about how to apply entrepreneurial techniques concepts creating competitive advantage. More specifically, the dynamic capabilities framework emerged as a useful tool managers better develop manage Our essay papers this spec...

The ontology of dynamic capabilities (DCs) is grounded in a systemic perspective organisational strategy. In controversial move, DCs theory adopts systems thinking as metaphorical reference, not possible research method. Systemic methodologies can provide holistic management perception and guide managers to develop differently, considering the deliberate learning design process non-linear dynam...

In this paper I want first to ask whether one can change « who » he is. A dilemma is lurking there, a dilemma between autonomy of change and continuity of personal identity. The notion of capability is submitted to a related difficulty. Autonomy implies to be self-committed to an activity but commitment implies revisions of other activities, and this changes the situation and the evaluation of ...

T h e auth or arg ue s th at S e n’ s c ap ab il ity ap p roac h is p rim aril y a p h il osop h ic al und e rl ab ouring e x e rc ise aim e d at e l ab orating c e rtain c e ntral e c onom ic c ate g orie s, and th at th e p h il osop h ic al and m e th od ol og ic al und e rp inning s of S e n’ s ap p roac h are rad ic al l y d if f e re nt f rom th ose of c onte m p orary w e l f are e c ono...

How should actions to redress absolute human deprivation be framed? Current international coordinated actions on absolute poverty are framed by human rights or by goals such as the Millennium Development Goals. But appropriate, effective and sustained responses to needs require localized participation in the definition of those rights/goals/needs and in measures taken to redress them. Human rig...

Mixed-criticality systems (MCS) combine real-time components of different levels of criticality – i.e. severity of failure – on the same processor, in order to obtain good resource utilisation. They must be able to guarantee deadlines of highly-critical threads without any dependence on less-critical threads. This requires strong temporal isolation, similar to the spatial isolation that is trad...

With reference to a distributed system consisting of nodes connected by a local area network, we present a new formulation of the password capability paradigm that takes advantage of techniques of symmetric-key cryptography to represent password capabilities in memory. We assign a cryptographic key to each application; the password capabilities held by a process of a given application are encry...