scholarly journals Towards a Human Capabilities Conscious Enterprise Architecture

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 327
Author(s):  
Ermias Abebe Kassa ◽  
Jan C. Mentz
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Modern Enterprise ◽  
Organizational Theories ◽  
Conceptual Paper

This conceptual paper argues that enterprise architecture (EA) should move towards a conscious human-centered conception of the enterprise. Employing the conceptual methodological approach of theory synthesis and drawing on the extant literature in enterprise architecture as well as pertinent social and organizational theories, we suggested foundational propositions that could holistically serve as a theoretical lens for (re)viewing the foundations of EA within a progressive conscious enterprise agenda. The novel contribution of the paper is the introduction of human capabilities approach (HCA) as a method theory, to supplement systems and stakeholder theories, for design and evaluation of enterprise architecture in the modern enterprise. The paper concludes by showing the implications of the propositions for practitioners and researchers.

scholarly journals The Impact of Employment Quality and Housing Quality on Human Development in the European Union

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 969
Author(s):  
Marina Checa-Olivas ◽  
Bladimir de la Hoz-Rosales ◽  
Rafael Cano-Guervos
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Housing Quality ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Employment Quality ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to contribute new information on how and through which factors employment quality and housing quality can be improved from a human development approach so that people can live the life they want. Using the human capabilities approach as a theoretical reference framework, the article analyses the effect of involuntary part-time employment and overcrowded housing on the Human Development Index (HDI). The empirical analysis is based on the panel data technique, which is applied to data from the European Statistical Office (Eurostat) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for the 28 member countries of the European Union. The results shed new evidence on how involuntary part-time work and overcrowded housing limit or hinder people from living the lives they want, at least in the dimensions measured by the HDI.

Decolonizing Cultural Probes in Ethnographic Research: Perspective of African Scholars

2021 ◽  
pp. 002193472110210
Author(s):  
Akpovire Oduaran ◽  
Okechukwu S. Chukwudeh
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
The People ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Conceptual Paper

The epistemological positioning that frequently validates the application of cultural probes in eliciting detailed exploration of phenomenon has not been sufficiently interrogated. Yet the epistemological assumptions behind the value of cultural probes continue to be drummed up and foisted on Africa’s emerging ethnographic researchers who actually need to be a bit more critical in its adoption and application. This conceptual paper explores the extant literature on data collection based essentially on cultural probes as espoused in habitus. It is proposed that profound amounts of decolonization of the spirit, content, and process of data gathering is urgent and critical at this stage. Until this is done objectively, African ethnographic researchers should “look at the gift horse in the mouth” before they can properly configure what is right or wrong for the people of Africa who should be in the hot pursuit of the ownership, production and utilization of relevant and sacrosanct knowledge aimed at rapid socio-economic and political development of the continent.

scholarly journals A review on Innovation and its Strategic Importance to the Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-281
Author(s):  
Siti Noraisah Musneh ◽  
Sylvia @ Nabila Azwa Ambad ◽  
Rosmimah Mohd Roslin
Keyword(s):  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Medium Enterprises

This is a conceptual paper to review the innovation concept and determine the strategic importance of innovation towards the growth of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) globally. The study reviews the extant literature on the role of innovation in keeping SMEs competitive and sustainable in their business. This study’s findings show the evidence from past literature on the importance of innovation to SMEs’ growth, and its effect on SMEs if they failed to innovate. Another information that SMEs can gain when reading this paper is the definitions of innovation viewed from different perspectives and help SMEs get involved with relevant innovation activities.

scholarly journals The Centrality of Participant Voice in Illuminating the Gender Regime in Education Research Using a Human Capabilities Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Vanner
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Research Synthesis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Educational Values ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Gender Regime ◽  
Gender And Education ◽  
Gender Regimes ◽  
Equality In Education

The human capabilities approach distinguishes between capabilities (a person’s ability to choose what she wants to do/be) and functionings (actually doing/being what she wants). When used to analyze gender equality in education, it draws attention to the nature of education and the extent to which it is equally empowering for girls and boys. This research synthesis examines the use of the human capabilities approach as an analytical framework for gender and education research. The approach’s emphasis on participant voice as a means of articulating what is valued in education highlights contradictions and similarities within a given community and attends to the way that the gender regime of the school characterizes the educational experience. This is particularly meaningful in relation to the views of student participants including children, whose descriptions of their educational values, goals and experiences are critical in understanding the daily operations and experiences of gender regimes in schools.

Frameworks for Model-Based Design of Enterprise Information Systems

2009 ◽  
pp. 326-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Nikolaidou ◽  
Nancy Alexopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
System Design ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Enterprise Information Systems ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Modern Enterprise ◽  
Design Tradeoffs

System design is an important phase of system engineering, determining system architecture to satisfy specific requirements. System design focuses on analyzing performance requirements, system modeling and prototyping, defining and optimizing system architecture, and studying system design tradeoffs and risks. Modern enterprise information systems (EIS) are distributed systems usually built on multitiered client server architectures, which can be modeled using well-known frameworks, such as Zachman enterprise architecture or open distributed processing reference model (RM-ODP). Both frameworks identify different system models, named views, corresponding to discrete stakeholder’s perspectives, specific viewpoints, and could serve as a basis for model-based system design. The main focus of this chapter is to explore the potential of model-based design for enterprise information systems (EIS). To this end, the basic requirements for model-based EIS design are identified, while three alternative approaches are discussed based on the above requirements, namely, rational unified process for systems engineering (RUP SE), UML4ODP and EIS design framework.

Capabilities Approaches and Labour Law through a Relational and Restorative Regulatory Lens

2019 ◽  
pp. 218-238
Author(s):  
Bruce P. Archibald
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Practical Reason ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Good For

This chapter examines the question of whether the law should prohibit or prevent jobs that are robotic in the nature of their performance against two normative frameworks: first, the framework of human rights and, secondly, the framework of human capabilities. These two frameworks justify controls, albeit not necessarily the same, over the sorts of jobs that are available on the labour market. The chapter finds that both frameworks recognize the value of work as an important interest and an element of human flourishing, and both frameworks impose duties as to the content of work. The duties that human rights impose include the creation of work opportunities and the prohibition of exploitation at work, rather than the creation of meaningful work. Working like a robot, or like a cog in a machine, is not necessarily incompatible with human rights. However, it appears to be incompatible with Nussbaum’s account of human capabilities. It undermines both architectonic capabilities of practical reason and affiliation, the exercise of which affects all other capabilities. Even though boring and monotonous work is incompatible with this approach, it is less clear whether there should be a state duty to prohibit it, according to the theory of human capabilities. This is because work, even if boring and monotonous, may still be conducive to human flourishing for it is good for the enjoyment of several human capabilities. This lack of clarity as to the duties imposed in this area is a weakness of the capabilities approach.

Work, Human Rights, and Human Capabilities

2019 ◽  
pp. 202-217
Author(s):  
Virginia Mantouvalou
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Moral Wrong ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Capabilities Theory

This chapter examines the value of work and the requirements of the content of work against two normative frameworks: first, human rights, and second, human capabilities. Its main question is whether working like a robot should be prohibited. The chapter identifies certain overlaps in the requirements imposed by the two frameworks, such as a duty to create opportunities to work and the prohibition of being forced to work. When it comes to the content of work, both frameworks prohibit workers’ exploitation, and both recognize the value of self-development in the workplace, up to a certain extent. The overlap is justified given that there are connections between human dignity and human flourishing, both values that are also linked to human rights. However, the chapter also suggests that capabilities theory, as a theory of human flourishing, requires the promotion of meaningful work for everyone. This requirement is more demanding than the duties imposed by human rights, which are primarily about identifying and addressing moral wrongs. Whether boring and monotonous jobs should be prohibited as a moral wrong, though, is not specifically addressed within capabilities theory. The lack of specificity as to the duties imposed is a weakness of the capabilities approach.

Methods and Techniques of Effective Management of Complexity in Aviation

2020 ◽  
pp. 438-459
Author(s):  
Maksym Yastrub ◽  
Mario Boyero Pérez ◽  
Svetlana Kredentsar
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Architecture Framework ◽  
Modern Enterprise ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Architecture Frameworks ◽  
Traffic Management System

This chapter presents the use of enterprise architecture to manage the growing complexity in aviation. Any aviation organization or air traffic management system can be considered as a complex enterprise which involves different stakeholders and uses various systems to execute its business needs. The complexity of such an enterprise makes it quite challenging to introduce any change since it might have an impact on various stakeholders as well as on different systems inside of the enterprise. That is why there is a need for a technique to manage the enterprise and to anticipate, plan, and support the transformation of the enterprise to execute its strategy. This technique can be provided by enterprise architecture, a relatively new discipline that focuses on describing the enterprise current and future states as well as providing a holistic view of it. The authors describe the modern enterprise architecture frameworks and provide an example of an application of one of them (European ATM Architecture framework) to identify and manage changes in aviation.

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