Die sich häufenden Bilanzskandale, Korruptionsaffären und hohen Abfindungszahlungen für ausscheidende Top-Manager in den vergangenen Jahren haben auch die jeweils involvierten Beratungsgesellschaften mit ins Zwielicht gezogen. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht der folgende Beitrag, welche...

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 has been adopted as a theoretical framework for official Poverty and Wealth Reports by the German government. For the first time, this paper provides information on the use of the Capability Approach in this reporting process to international readers. We show the...

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...