Relational Capability: A Multidimensional Approach

Giraud, Gaël; Renouard, Cécile; L'Huillier, Hélène; Martinière, Raphaële de la; Sutter, Camille

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2333529

“…This dynamic process is the result of people acting together organised around a set of shared values and practices. This view is in line with several studies that recognise the potential opportunity that groups, or collectives, provide for successfully acting together in the consecution of shared objectives (e.g., see Giraud et al 2013, Giraud and Renouard 2009, Ibrahim 2006, Stewart 2005. These scholars highlight the fact that social progress-transforming unjust structures, opening up new spaces for action, attaining new rights and freedoms, and creating an enabling social environment in which to live well-is the result of people pooling their resources and acting together as agents of their own development.…”

Section: Collective Agency As the Engine Of A Common Good Approachsupporting

confidence: 86%

A Common Good Approach to Development A Common Good Approach to Development , edited by Mathias Nebel, Oscar Garza-Vazquez, and Clemens Sedmak, Cambridge, UK, Open Books Publishers, 2022, viii + 392 pp., ISBN 978-1-80064-404-5.

Philipsen

2023

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities

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This book is the result of a research process that involved many people over four years. We want to express here our gratitude to the friends and colleagues as well as the institutions that made this journey possible. First we would like to thank all the authors that took part in this project for their excellent contributions contained in this volume. This book would not be possible without your commitment, patience, and dedication throughout this process. Each one of you made this project better. We also must acknowledge our debts to the local research group based in

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“…This dynamic process is the result of people acting together organised around a set of shared values and practices. This view is in line with several studies that recognise the potential opportunity that groups, or collectives, provide for successfully acting together in the consecution of shared objectives (e.g., see Giraud et al 2013, Giraud and Renouard 2009, Ibrahim 2006, Stewart 2005. These scholars highlight the fact that social progress-transforming unjust structures, opening up new spaces for action, attaining new rights and freedoms, and creating an enabling social environment in which to live well-is the result of people pooling their resources and acting together as agents of their own development.…”

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confidence: 86%

Introduction to Part I

Nebel¹,

Garza-Vázquez²,

Sedmak³

2022

A Common Good Approach to Development

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This book is the result of a research process that involved many people over four years. We want to express here our gratitude to the friends and colleagues as well as the institutions that made this journey possible. First we would like to thank all the authors that took part in this project for their excellent contributions contained in this volume. This book would not be possible without your commitment, patience, and dedication throughout this process. Each one of you made this project better. We also must acknowledge our debts to the local research group based in

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“…When selecting these three capabilities, and especially affiliation, we also build on recent research on how CSR impacts human development. The research we cite highlights the importance of fostering social capital in order to promote capabilities in the long run (Ansari, Munir, & Gregg, ; Giraud, Renouard, L'Huillier, de la Martinière, & Sutter, ). Indeed, the quality of social bonds within a community enables people to share, enhance, and retain capabilities.…”

Section: Building a Csr Framework Based On The Capability Approachmentioning

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“…Research carried out by the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, in order to build a more systematic framework for addressing multidimensional poverty, is also based on this notion of the threshold of capabilities (Alkire, Roche, & Vaz, ). The RCI (Giraud et al, ), which has been used in CSR studies in Nigeria, Indonesia, India, and Mexico, integrates the dimensions taken into account in the three capabilities we selected among Nussbaum's list. It also uses this notion of threshold to assess whether a given capability can be effective.…”

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Corporate social responsibility towards human development: A capabilities framework

Renouard

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Ezvan

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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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Relational Capability: A Multidimensional Approach

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A Common Good Approach to Development A Common Good Approach to Development , edited by Mathias Nebel, Oscar Garza-Vazquez, and Clemens Sedmak, Cambridge, UK, Open Books Publishers, 2022, viii + 392 pp., ISBN 978-1-80064-404-5.

A Common Good Approach to Development A Common Good Approach to Development , edited by Mathias Nebel, Oscar Garza-Vazquez, and Clemens Sedmak, Cambridge, UK, Open Books Publishers, 2022, viii + 392 pp., ISBN 978-1-80064-404-5.

Introduction to Part I

Corporate social responsibility towards human development: A capabilities framework

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