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Exploring New Ways to Assess the Impact of Microfinance: What Role for the Capability Approach?

Diani, Asmae; Brabet, Julienne - In: Finance and economy for society : integrating sustainability, (pp. 253-269). 2016

Purpose The disagreement over the contribution of microfinance to fight poverty is mainly related to the wide range of methodologies used to study it. The aim of this chapter is to reveal the limitations of these methodologies and explore whether the capability approach may improve impact...

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Chapter 12 Designing and Embedding a Strategic Foresight Capability

In: Governing for the future : designing democratic …, (pp. 379-422). 2016

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Reconciling Capabilities and Ambidexterity Theories: A Multi-Level Perspective

Zimmermann, Alexander; Birkinshaw, Julian - In: The Oxford handbook of dynamic capabilities. 2016

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Building Factory Fitness

Ferdows, K.; Thurnheer, Fritz - 2016

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the notion of fitness in production as something different from leanness and show that building fitness puts a factory on a course of developing cumulative capabilities and improving its ability to respond to changing market and business...

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Indigenous peoples and the capability approach : taking stock

Bockstael, Erika; Watene, Krushil - In: Oxford development studies 44 (2016) 3, pp. 265-270

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Movements of the ‘we’

Gasper, Gasper, D.R.; Truong, Truong, T-D. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2010

We consider cross-border migration through the lens of the capabilities approach, with special reference to … least because it accelerates change in the nature of political community. A capabilities approach can be helpful through its … political spaces in which they live, the capabilities approach will be able to better concretize and situate the picture of the …

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The Capability Approach in Social Policy Analysis - Yet Another Concept?

Goerne, Alexander - 2010

There is still some lack of clarity regarding the question of what the Capability Approach actually is, how it should be interpreted and operationalised, and not least whether it is an adequate and useful concept for the analysis of social policy in Europe. Against the backdrop of these...

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Management Capability : Perspectives from New Zealand Small Firms

Battisti, Martina; Deakins, David; Coetzer, Alan; … - 2010

Empirical evidence suggests that improving the management skills of owner-managers of SMEs contributes to their survival and growth, and that there is considerable scope for further improvement in skills and competences of owner-managers. In particular, small firm owner-managers’ capability to...

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Using Capabilities to Project Growth, 2010-30

Felipe, Jesus - 2010

We forecast average annual GDP growth for 147 countries for 2010-30. We use a cross-country regression model where the long-run fundamentals are determined by countries' accumulated capabilities and the capacity to undergo structural transformation

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Determinants of Contractual Completeness in Franchising

Hendrikse, George W. J. - 2010

The aim of the study is to explain the determinants of contractual completeness in franchise relationships by formulating and testing various propositions derived from transaction cost theory, agency theory, property rights theory, organizational capability theory and relational view of...

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