Purpose: A critical issue has been absent from the conversation on supply chain coordination: how supply chain coordination influence the enterprise performance. This research proposes a new vision to research the performance mechanism of supply chain coordination capability as a dynamic...

This chapter is an overview of the main methodologies that have been proposed in the literature for operationalising the capability approach. It covers descriptive as well as modelling approaches, the former focusing on catching a full picture of the well-being situation using many indicators...

Over the last 15 years, articles about the world’s poorest populations, known as the base of the pyramid, have begun to appear in scholarly business journals. Although the initial wave of attention was driven by claims that large corporations could earn a fortune selling to these consumers, it...

Firms buy, sell, and glean from innovation. In other words, firms variously engage in commercialization of intangible innovation. Intangible innovations are primarily protected by intellectual property rights. Firms may only be able to leverage their intellectual assets solely through these...

We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the basic requirements of human beings are superior to the existing money-metric approaches. In this exercise, we implement a uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic...

India has witnessed significant change and dramatic shift in its economic and business environment over the last six decades. Its’ economy has become more open, liberalized and globalized from restrictive era of 1960’s and 1970’s. The relationship between state and business has also...

This paper explains how the Ruggie's framework for corporate human rights performance may benefit from a relationship with the capability approach. The capability approach is found to fit nicely with both human rights and managerial perspectives. Among the many reciprocal contributions these...