This paper seeks to develop a literature-based perspective on intellectual property from the standpoint of business strategy and strategic human resource management. Distinctive competitive advantage is increasingly built on a firm’s knowledge, one of the principal ingredients of intellectual capital. Competitive capability is strongly influenced by the organisation’s ability to develop, differ...

Based on two different but complementary cases – the ‘mixed media case’ (architectural design work) and the ’wireless call system case’ (hospital work) – we argue that taking advantage of the potential that configurable systems offer may require attention to several ‘qualities of use’. Here we provide further elaboration of the concept of configurability, which we have suggested elsewhere (Balk...

In this paper, we propose and discuss four fitness features considered as essential for developing personal learning environments (PLE) that are viable and ready for appropriation.

Abstract COVID-19 restrictions have changed the perception of space: travel limitations and diffusion remote activities narrowed spaces everyday life, leading to a rediscovery proximity. We are both witnessing re-appropriation domestic environment re-discovering neighbourhood those small portions city often neglected. This is evident in use nearby public transport, with decongestion many urban ...

Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats (1998), an appropriation of the myth of Medea, re-presents the predicament of Hester Swane, who like Medea, is an outsider, a dispossessed woman living on the margins of society, who, at the age of seven, was abandoned by her mother, and now is struggling to establish her identity by looking for connection with the lost m/other. Carr shifts the focus from stereo...