Search Results - subject:"Capabilities Approach"

Social Capital as a Micro-Level Origin of Organizational Capabilities

Kemper, Jan; Schilke, Oliver; Brettel, Malte - 2012

The micro-level concept of social capital has received significant attention in management and sociological research, but has not yet been empirically associated with the development of organizational capabilities relevant to product innovation. The major purpose of this paper is to investigate...

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Taking stock : capability development in interorganizational projects

Schüßler, Elke; Wessel, Lauri; Gersch, Martin - In: Schmalenbach business review : sbr 64 (2012) 3, pp. 171-186

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Microfoundations of Routines and Capabilities : Individuals, Processes, and Structure

Felin, Teppo; Foss, Nicolai J.; Heimeriks, Koen; … - 2012

We discuss the microfoundations of routines and capabilities, including why a microfoundations view is needed and how it may inform work on organizational and competitive heterogeneity. Building on extant research, we identify three primary categories of micro-level components underlying...

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Desirability to characterize process capability

Jessenberger, Jutta (contributor); Weihs, Claus (contributor) - 2004

Over the past few years continuously new process capability indices have been developed, most of them with the aim to add some feature missed in former process capability indices. Thus, for nearly any thinkable situation now a special index exists which makes choosing a certain index as...

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Going beyond functionings to capabilities : an econometric model to explain and estimate capabilities

Krishnakumar, Jayalakshmi (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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On the measurement of human well-being : fuzzy set theory and Sen's capability approach

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina N. - 2004 - Revised version

Sen’s influential work on human development has led economists to explore new areas that have become increasingly important for human well-being. In particular, Sen emphasizes the importance of the "freedom to choose". Freedom, however, is not always an exact (crisp) outcome, and membership in...

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E-business model innovation and capability building

Gagnon, Stéphane (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Flourishing Lives: The Capabilities Approach as a Framework for New Thinking About Employment, Work and Welfare in the 21st Century

Orton, Michael - In: Work, Employment & Society 25 (2011) 2, pp. 352-360

. It is argued that the capabilities approach is best thought of not as offering a detailed road map for policy, but as … neo-liberal hegemony a capabilities approach therefore can provide a framework for new thinking, and an underpinning … how to tackle deeply entrenched problems beyond adherence to neo-liberalism. This article explores whether a capabilities …

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Utilitarianism, and the Capabilities Approach

Renouard, Cecile - In: Journal of Business Ethics 98 (2011) 1, pp. 85-97

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Chapter Twenty-Four. Freedom, Opportunity, and Well-Being

Foster, James E. - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 2, (pp. 687-728). 2011

This paper reexamines key results from the measurement of opportunity freedom , or the extent to which a set of options offers a decision maker real opportunities to achieve. Three cases are investigated: no preferences, a single preference, and plural preferences. The three corresponding...

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