This paper advances on the importance of the adaptation of the firm to the International Business Environment (IBE …). The IBE is a distinguishing factor in international business studies and the firm?s adaptation to the environment has been … presented as a basic survival strategy. We argue that adaptation is indeed a dynamic and largely internally driven process that …

terms of functionings and capabilities guarantees a more objective picture of people's life. Next to this strong criticism … adaptive preferences and compare it with a more detailed analysis of adaptation as it is presented in hedonic psychology. It … becomes clear that adaptation can be a positive as well as a negative phenomenon and that the adaptive preference critique had …

conditions developing countries can use this set of generic technologies to improve their learning capabilities. We argue that … that combine the advantages of both models in a way that is appropriate to their idiosyncratic needs and capabilities. …

contrasts the basic goods approach with the utility-of-consumption and capabilities approaches and argues, on a number of …

This paper introduces the concepts of alertness and responsiveness as key capabilities for firms in fast …

Capabilities and functionings are new and attractive concepts for assessing the well-being and advantage of individuals …. Functionings refer to a person’s achievements, i.e. what she manages to do or to be. Capabilities refer to her real opportunities … to formulate a list of capabilities which can be used to analyse changes over time and differences between different …

Contingency theory suggests that the selection of coherent combinations of organizational capabilities and operational … understand how internal firm capabilities must be modified to match the external environment. Relying on primary data from 102 … European IT firms, the authors discuss the value of specialized capabilities, and we analyze their degree of fit with the …