Sufficiency in Business : : The Transformative Potential of Business for Sustainability.

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 example...

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Superior document:Neue Ökonomie Series
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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, 2024.
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Year of Publication:2024
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Neue Ökonomie Series
Physical Description:1 online resource (349 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Editorial
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Part A – Viewpoints on Sufficiency in Business
  • Towards a Characterization of Sufficiency-Oriented Businesses
  • A Taxonomy of Corporate Sufficiency Strategies
  • The Future of Organizations
  • Depths of Sufficiency in Business
  • Sufficiency and the Logic of Care
  • Part B – Experiences of Sufficiency in Business
  • Sufficiency as a Core Building Block of Community-Supported Business Models
  • Digging for Roots of Sufficiency in the Food Industry
  • Cultures of Sufficiency in Food Businesses
  • Social Media Communication for Sufficiency in Fashion
  • Towards Sustainable Fashion
  • The Paradox of Minimalism in the Field of Lifestyle Products
  • Paving the Way towards Sufficiency in Mobility
  • From Efficiency to Sufficiency in the ICT Sector
  • Self-Restraint and Sufficiency of a Steel Processor
  • Part C – Transformative Changes for Sufficiency on Political and Societal Levels
  • (In)Compatibility of the Market with Sufficiency
  • Limits of Sufficiency Strategies in Business Practices
  • Policy-Making as a Crucial Element for Sufficiency on the Business Level
  • Appendix
  • Authors