The majority of the literature related to Amartya Sen´s Capability Approach (CA) has been devoted to questions of development and developing countries. In this paper, however, with a theoretical concept and first empirical results at hand, we shed some light on Sen´s argument that the CA is...

The capability approach of Amartya Sen, who received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, has recently been announced as a new conceptual framework of the German Federal Government's official Poverty and Wealth Reports. Hence, we will discuss the suitability of Sen's approach to reach the goals...

The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...

This paper aims to explore concepts, methods and empirical results of potential impacts of Transnational Corporations (TNC) on Sustainable Human Development (SHD) in emerging market countries. In doing so, a further major goal is to explain, illustrate and discuss how the theoretical CA...

Endbericht: Gemeinsamer Bericht zum BMBF-Forschungsprojekt (FKZ: 01UN1015A). - [Gesamtziel:] Im Projektantrag gab das Konsortium folgende Ziele an: 'Die auf Grundlage des Capability-Ansatzes entworfene Konzeption nachhaltiger Entwicklung hat durch die Bezugnahme auf die bedürfnisorientierten...

Gegenstand der Forschungsinitiative ist die Frage, welchen Beitrag Unternehmen der Wirtschaft bei der Lösung gesellschaftlicher Aufgaben, die auf der Schnittstelle von Politik und Wirtschaft angesiedelt sind, leisten können und sollen. Dabei wird insbesondere ihre Rolle in...