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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"capabilities approach"”.
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A capabilities approach to understanding health disparities
… perspective situated within Sen’s capabilities approach to examine the cultural and social systems that influence the meaning and experience of health, well-being, and disability. The dissertation is comprised of three separate manuscripts; each presents findings from a distinct …
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Applying the capabilities approach in economic development
… that is the ultimate aim of their work. The capabilities approach (CA) of Amartya Sen (1999) provides a perspective that concentrates on this enlargement of people's choices by focusing on the expansion of human freedoms and capabilities as a measure of appraising success in development. On …
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Open Innovation Practices and Innovation Performance: A Dynamic Capabilities Approach
… the link between open innovation and dynamic capabilities. The aim is to understand the relevant capabilities required by firms to effectively engage in open innovation practices and how these practices affect innovation performance. The analysis is based on five selected service sub-sectors …
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An Aspirations-led Capabilities Approach to Women’s Career Pathways in Quantity Surveying
… expectation of upwards progression. In using the Capabilities Approach (CA) of Amartya Sen, the research enables understanding of how women can pursue their aspirations and achieve their own definitions of career success. A capability set for female QSs was established, combinations of …
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Examining complex diabetes and patient illness experiences: utilizing syndemic and health capabilities approach
… model, this study uses a syndemic and health capabilities approach. The purpose of this study was to explore how social factors shape the health of those who experience complex diabetes, and the perceived challenges these individuals encountered when interacting with the healthcare system. …
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Corporate social responsibility and social enterprises: An empirical study through the lens of Sen’s capabilities approach
… CSR agendas that enhance their stakeholders’ capabilities. The conceptual framework for the study is built on Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach (Sen 1991, 1999). Primary data were collected from face-to-face, in-depth, semi structured interviews with twelve owner-managers of small social …
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Examining Community Integration Among Persons With Serious Mental Illnesses Residing In Supported Housing Via the Capabilities Approach
… and psychological integration. Drawing from the capabilities approach for integration as proposed by Ware and colleagues (2007), the current study examined how two specific person-environment relationships predict community integration among 418 adult persons with SMI residing in supported …
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A capabilities approach to environmental assessment: enhancing the integration of human development and well-being in participatory environmental decision making
… in environmental assessment through developing a capabilities approach to the practice. The research emphasises the effectiveness and equity imperatives of public participation and highlights the inclusion of appropriate social considerations in environmental decision making. The participatory …
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Critically Developing Real Capabilities
Critical Realism, the Capabilities Approach, and Marxism, all have underdeveloped theoretical problems. For Critical Realism, the ceteris paribus clause, which is used to asses an ideological critique, does not properly specify what other things warrant the dismissal or acceptance of said critique. …
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Measuring capabilities an empirical investigation of the sen-nussbaum approach to well-being
… thesis argues for the view that Amartya Sen's capabilities approach is a preferable approach to the measurement of welfare by addressing three questions:<br></br><br></br> can the capability approach be operationalised?<br></br> what is the relationship between capabilities and satisfaction …
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Einsamkeit und Naturerleben im jungen Erwachsenenalter
… des jungen Erwachsenenalters beschreibt und den Capabilities Approach als Interpretationsperspektive vorstellt. Als empirischer Teil wurden 633 junge Erwachsene mit einem Online-Fragebogen befragt und die Ergebnisse quantitativ ausgewertet. Dabei standen Fragen nach dem Zusammenhang von …
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Widening participation in Higher Education: an investigation of the experiences and views of students, parents, teachers, and higher education staff of a pre-entry programme
… their experiences, the research study used the Capabilities Approach as a conceptual framework. A mixed methods design was utilised, with data collection through semi-structured interviews and online surveys. The challenges of ‘insider’ research was discussed, and the Capabilities Approach …
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A path to social development : the contribution of a micro-level programme in reducing poverty and enhancing capabilities: a case study
… area by reducing poverty and expanding capabilities. Jobstart is a programme in the Economic Development Focus area of the Catholic Welfare and Development (CWD) agency. Jobstart provides accredited courses for the hospitality industry and assists and mentors graduates to find employment …
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Applying fuzzy-set theoretic poverty measures within a developmental local government context : the Khayelitsha - Mitchell's Plain case study
… in this study we have examined whether the approach adopted (i.e. Basic Needs) is necessarily the best multidimensional approach available. We have given preference to the capabilities approach with its emphasis on well-being where people are the beneficiaries of development rather than the …
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Children's Capabilities and Education Inequality: How Types of Schooling Play a Role in Pakistan
This research is an application of the Capabilities Approach to a southern educational context, aiming to answer how children’s capabilities differ across different types of schooling (public, private and religious) in Pakistan. While conventional research on education in the country dwells on …
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Perceptions of Special Constables on University Campuses
… guided the research included Human Development & Capabilities Approach, student development theories, and critical race theory. Aspects of the Capabilities Approach, such as what one achieves and how they are able to garner achievements, along with what one values as part of their well-being and …
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'A fertile functioning or corrosive disadvantage': adult reflections on placement in low 'ability' groups in non-selective post-primary schools in Northern Ireland
… on the practice, and the use of Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach as an evaluative framework to explore the extent to which placement in a low 'ability' group acts as a 'fertile functioning' or a 'corrosive disadvantage'.<br/><br/>A qualitative study was conducted using online face-to-face …
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Students' Perspective on the Purposes of Engineering Higher Education: A longitudinal qualitative case study of the U.S. and England
… education change throughout their degree? The Capabilities Approach is used as the main theoretical framing. The framework is concerned with the question of what a person is able to do and be. It also provides a perspective on thinking about the purposes of education in terms of instrumental, …
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Social Justice without Dividing: Mapping collective social intent within the capabilities space
Modern development approaches are often seen as reflective of the social realities of the developed, and not sufficiently sensitive to those of developing world. Sen's capabilities approach to development has also attracted one such criticism. The capabilities approach thrives on the informational …
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Scope and limitations of a capability-based measure of Job Quality in Central America
… To this end, Sen’s capability-approach is used along with Green and Mostafa’s operationalisation of JQ (Eurofound, 2012), which considers dimensions as varied as earnings, career prospects, autonomy, intensity, social environment, physical environment, and working time. With …
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