Porter's industry structure model, the resource-based view and the dynamic capabilities approach provide valuable insights to better understand how firms are capable to attain and sustain competitive advantage.
The capabilities approach is really a theory of freedom as positive action (in contrast to negative liberty), though, oddly, Nussbaum rarely uses the word "freedom".
She taught herself about Indian politics and developed her own version of Sen's capabilities approach, a theoretical framework for measuring and comparing the well-being of nations.
There are some excellent and important moral philosophers, such as Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, whose work on the "capabilities approach" provided the intellectual underpinning for the UN's Human Development Index.
The capabilities approach, she argues, demands that a woman have a real opportunity to surmount low expectations and cultural pressures that may shape her desires; but it also supports her right to refuse.
There is, for example, a movement in contemporary philosophy and economics known as "the capabilities approach," which takes seriously the question of identifying the components of well-being and measuring them.
Nussbaum's "capabilities approach" may be compared with procedural accounts of autonomy (see section 1.1.1).
For example, Martha Nussbaum defends her liberal "capabilities" approach against anti-liberal opponents (2000a, 2000b).
Nussbaum's capabilities approach, unlike Bruckner's view, invokes an objective notion of the good.
Theoretically, the paper draws on the capabilities approach.
From a formal justice perspective, I employ Rawls's liberal principle of legitimacy and Sen's capabilities approach.
