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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gossen, Maike (-)
Otros Autores: Niessen, Laura
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag 2024.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Neue Ökonomie Series
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (349 pages)
ISBN:9783839469101