Corporate Contributions to Developing Health Capabilities

Moczadlo, Regina; Strotmann, Harald; Volkert, Jürgen

doi:10.1080/19452829.2015.1098595

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“…It is rooted in the understanding of collective responsibilities related to complex phenomena that are not due to one single actor, but that involve the capabilities of a diversity of players who all have joint responsibility. Building on recent industrial projects in India (Moczadlo et al, 2015) and Nigeria (Lompo & Trani, 2013), we argue the quality of the agreement between corporations and local communities highly depends on the quality of their relations.…”

Section: Political Responsibility: Proactive Cooperation Towards Stmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Throughout the paper, examples of fieldwork recently carried out in diverse countries (Giraud & Renouard, 2010;Idemudia, 2009;Moczadlo, Strotmann, & Volkert, 2015;Renouard, & Lado, 2012) are provided as evidence that protecting human capabilities, as recommended by Global Compact principles, necessitates measuring how business activities impact various dimensions of stakeholders' lives.…”

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Corporate social responsibility towards human development: A capabilities framework

Renouard

Ezvan

2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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The starting point of this paper is the need to promote a people‐centred corporate social responsibility (CSR) framework in a context where many human needs and rights remain unsatisfied and where businesses may have both a positive and a negative impact on the quality of life of human beings today and tomorrow and may even lead to irreversible damage. Our normative definition of CSR is consistent with the criteria established by the EU Commission in 2011. We conceive CSR as a responsibility towards human development in two complementary ways: (a) a holistic responsibility shared by companies together with other actors to safeguard humanity and (b) a direct liability of each company for its impact on stakeholders' capabilities. We apply Nussbaum's list of central capabilities and concept of thresholds to specify the nature and extent of corporate responsibilities towards employees, subcontractors, investors, customers, and humanity as a whole. In addition, we leverage fieldwork in developing and developed countries to analyse the effect of business activities on human capabilities. We demonstrate that by quantifying the impact of businesses' activities on various dimensions of stakeholders' lives, and especially on the most vulnerable ones, these businesses can be held accountable for the negative externalities they produce.

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Section: Political Responsibility: Proactive Cooperation Towards Stmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Corporate social responsibility towards human development: A capabilities framework

Renouard

Ezvan

2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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“…Concerning empirical works that use explicitly the HCPa, Moczadlo et al (2015) found that freedom to live a long and a healthy life and to have enough food were important health capabilities for villagers in rural India but also aspects such as objective health status, access to safe drinking water, basic sanitation and health agency issues (health-related information) when trying to assess the impact of corporate health initiatives on individual well-being. Here, it was evident that focusing in health capabilities instead of subjective health perceptions allowed to better assess the impact of the intervention.…”

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“…The above-mentioned works, having as a main objective the selection and valuation of dimensions of the HCS, also revealed the importance of health agency in developing health capabilities; by contrasting subjective versus objective indicators, for example, it is shown how misperceptions and lack of information affect people's effective (and potential) use of resources provided by an intervention (see Moczadlo et al 2015). Development of health agency-which is crucial to the health equity concerns and for the emergence of new healthrelated values, practices and norms-is not straightforward and involves solving tensions at individual and collective levels.…”

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Giving arguments to operationalize health capabilities in economic evaluations of health interventions

Cabrera

Ricardo²

2018

J. Soc. Econ. Dev.

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This article argues that health capabilities should be used to generate a measure of healthrelated quality of life so that health policy avoids expanding to encompass problems related to total well-being. To this end, health should be defined holistically, considering it as internal capabilities related to the physical, mental, and social domains. While different sets of health capabilities can be considered depending on their purpose, a synthesized set composed of health, health agency, material conditions and community dimensions incorporating this holistic definition of health together with external conditions is proposed. Valuation of this set for its use in large-scale projects should be done using worked or corrected preferences, elicited through public discussion and hybrid methods. Finally, a weighted sum ranking, social health-related capability functional together with a sufficientarian perspective, is proposed as a feasible method by which to aggregate individual health capabilities while taking into account concerns about efficiency and equity.

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Sustainable Human Resource Management: Making Human Resources More Responsible

Sarma

Rao

2020

Sustainable Human Resource Management

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Corporate Contributions to Developing Health Capabilities

Cited by 5 publications

References 36 publications

Corporate social responsibility towards human development: A capabilities framework

Corporate social responsibility towards human development: A capabilities framework

Giving arguments to operationalize health capabilities in economic evaluations of health interventions

Sustainable Human Resource Management: Making Human Resources More Responsible

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