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Sufficiency in Business

The Transformative Potential of Business for Sustainability
Series: New Economies
Brief Description
Businesses want to be sustainable, but how can they promote sufficiency? Sufficiency-oriented business models focus on creating sustainable value, promoting a sufficiency-oriented lifestyle, and adjusting production volumes to planetary boundaries. The contributors to this volume present practical examples of sufficiency-oriented companies across industries. Experts share their... Read More
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An inspirational presentation of successful real-world businesses that promote sufficiency – on the path to a sustainable economy.

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Businesses want to be sustainable, but how can they promote sufficiency? Sufficiency-oriented business models focus on creating sustainable value, promoting a sufficiency-oriented lifestyle, and adjusting production volumes to planetary boundaries.

The contributors to this volume present practical examples of sufficiency-oriented companies across industries. Experts share their insights on sufficiency strategies in business and their effectiveness for behavioural change.

They address the far-reaching changes in practices and behaviour required for this paradigm shift in business logic and suggest future research directions.

Series: New Economies

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783837669107

Publisher: Transcript Verlag

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 May 2024

Country: Germany

Imprint: Transcript Verlag

Contributors:

  • Edited by Maike Gossen
  • Edited by Laura Niessen

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 2.0mm

Width: 15.0mm

Height: 23.0mm

Weight: 482g

Pages: 348

About the Author

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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