Sufficiency in Business: The Transformative Potential of Business for Sustainability

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2024

Sufficiency in Business

The Transformative Potential of Business for Sustainability

Edited by: Maike Gossen and Laura Niessen
Funded by: Technische Universität Berlin and European Union's Horizon 2020's European Research Council (ERC)

Volume 2 in the series Neue Ökonomie

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839469101

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About this book

Businesses want to be sustainable but how can they promote sufficiency? Sufficiency-oriented business models focus on creating sustainable value, promoting reduced resource consumption and adjusting production volumes to planetary boundaries. The contributors to this volume present real-life examples of sufficiency-oriented companies across diverse industries. These experts share their insights on sufficiency strategies in business, barriers and opportunities discovered, and the impact on customer behavioural change. They address the far-reaching changes in business, society, and policy required for this paradigm shift and suggest future research directions.

Author / Editor information

Maike Gossen (Dr.) is as a post-doc researcher at Technical University Berlin, Germany. Her research centers around sustainable consumption, sufficiency, sufficiency-promoting marketing and digitalisation.
Laura Niessen is a researcher at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute. Her work focuses on sufficiency-promoting businesses, looking at what strategies they use and what their impact can be.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Editorial Open Access Download PDF	2
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Foreword Nancy M. P. Bocken Open Access Download PDF	9
Introduction Maike Gossen and Laura Niessen Open Access Download PDF	11
Part A – Viewpoints on Sufficiency in Business
Towards a Characterization of Sufficiency-Oriented Businesses Enhancing their Understanding and Identifying Key Dimensions Julia Bruckner Open Access Download PDF	17
A Taxonomy of Corporate Sufficiency Strategies Exploring Driving Factors for Sufficiency in Business Christel Maurer Open Access Download PDF	43
The Future of Organizations Understanding Business Model Implications of Shifting from Profit to Purpose Maren Ingrid Kropfeld and André Reichel Open Access Download PDF	65
Depths of Sufficiency in Business Diving Through the Planes of Social Being Iana Nesterova and Hubert Buch-Hansen Open Access Download PDF	83
Sufficiency and the Logic of Care Transforming the Relationships, Practices and Temporalities of Businesses Laura Beyeler Open Access Download PDF	95
Part B – Experiences of Sufficiency in Business
Sufficiency as a Core Building Block of Community-Supported Business Models Introducing an Innovative Business Model Type for Sufficiency Jana-Michaela Timm and Michaela Hausdorf Open Access Download PDF	117
Digging for Roots of Sufficiency in the Food Industry Exploring How Ecological Embeddedness Supports Sufficiency in Business Jessica Jungell-Michelsson and Iana Nesterova Open Access Download PDF	135
Cultures of Sufficiency in Food Businesses Proposing a Processual Systems Approach to Understand Cultures of Sufficiency Joshua Hurtado Hurtado, Heini Salonen, Tina Nyfors, Pasi Heikkurinen and Kristoffer Wilén Open Access Download PDF	155
Social Media Communication for Sufficiency in Fashion Investigating the Case of Houdini Sportswear on Instagram Beatriz Garcia-Ortega, Javier Galan-Cubillo, F. Javier Llorens-Montes and Blanca de-Miguel-Molina Open Access Download PDF	177
Towards Sustainable Fashion Exploring Sufficiency-Oriented Business Models in French Fashion SMEs Maëlle Soulis and Oksana Mont Open Access Download PDF	197
The Paradox of Minimalism in the Field of Lifestyle Products Uncovering How the Minimalism Business Impedes Sufficiency Viola Muster and Marlene Münsch Open Access Download PDF	225
Paving the Way towards Sufficiency in Mobility Promoting Cycling Through a Bicycle Subscription Service Laura Niessen, Nancy M. P. Bocken and Marc Dijk Open Access Download PDF	239
From Efficiency to Sufficiency in the ICT Sector Reflecting on Fifteen Years of Trial and Error Isabelle Dabadie Open Access Download PDF	257
Self-Restraint and Sufficiency of a Steel Processor Countering the Corporate Rebound Effect Jana Gebauer, Laura Niessen and Maike Gossen Open Access Download PDF	273
Part C – Transformative Changes for Sufficiency on Political and Societal Levels
(In)Compatibility of the Market with Sufficiency Applying a Systemic Lens on Markets Isaac Arturo Ortega Alvarado Open Access Download PDF	297
Limits of Sufficiency Strategies in Business Practices Overcoming Business-Related Boundaries for a Transition Towards Sufficiency Maike Gossen, Josephine Tröger and Vivian Frick Open Access Download PDF	309
Policy-Making as a Crucial Element for Sufficiency on the Business Level Discussing the Role of Policies to Push Sufficiency beyond Pioneers Jonas Lage, Benjamin Best, Tobias Froese and Carina Zell-Ziegler Open Access Download PDF	325
Appendix
Authors Open Access Download PDF	343

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 348
Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Theory; Economics

eBook

Published: May 27, 2024
ISBN: 9783839469101