Responsibility for Each Other's Freedom: Agency as the Source of Collective Capability

Journal of Human Development

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 185-201

  Ballet, Jérôme ^a   Dubois, Jean‐Luc ^a   Mahieu, FranÇois‐Régis ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Agency; Collective capability; Person; Responsibility; Social sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939276896     PISSN: 14699516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649880701371000     Document Type: Article

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