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There is no broad agreement of the nature of capability in management, planning, engineering, and enterprise architecture literature. Definitions of the concept of capability ranges from being equal to the concept of process to be loosely defined as a collection of resources. This paper presents intensional aspects that are argued to be non-essential for the general concept of capability. Thus, this paper explores the concept of capability with a focus on what capability is not. By making non-essential aspects and distinctions visible we aim to making the concept of capability easier to understand and integrate for practitioners and researchers.
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Tell, A.W. (2014). What Capability Is Not. In: Johansson, B., Andersson, B., Holmberg, N. (eds) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research. BIR 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 194. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11370-8_10
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