Search Results - subject:"capabilities' approach"

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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Chapter Sixteen. Functionings and Capabilities

Kaushik, Basu; Lòpez-Calva, Luis F. - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 2, (pp. 153-187). 2011

utility with functionings and capabilities. While the origins of this “capabilities approach” go back to the works of John … capabilities approach that may be impossible to capture in a single formalization. Nevertheless, the capability approach itself has …

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Social Analysis and the Capabilities Approach : A Limit to Martha Nussbaum's Universalist Ethics

Charusheela, S. - 2011

critiques, Martha Nussbaum argues that abandoning universalism leads to ethical relativism. Adapting Amartya Sen's capabilities … approach, she has proposed a modified universalism that draws on cross-cultural conversations as a non-ethnocentric basis for …

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