TY - GEN A1 - Nesterova, Iana A1 - Beyeler, Laura A1 - Niessen, Laura ED - Jankowski, Patricia ED - Höfner, Anja ED - Hoffmann, Marja Lena ED - Rohde, Friederike ED - Graf, Johanna T1 - Business of deep transformations - A non-binary approach T2 - Shaping digital transformation for a sustainable society - contributions from Bits & Bäume Y1 - 2023 UR - https://publication2023.bits-und-baeume.org/ Patricia U6 - https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-17526 SP - 82 EP - 86 PB - Technische Universität Berlin ER - TY - GEN A1 - Beyeler, Laura A1 - Jaeger-Erben, Melanie T1 - How to make more of less: Characteristics of sufficiency in business practices T2 - Frontiers in Sustainability N2 - Sustainable transformation toward a circular society, in which all ecosystems and livelihoods are protected and sustained, requires the integration of sufficiency in circular production and consumption practices. Beyond the technological promises to decouple resource use from economic growth, sufficiency measures to reduce production and consumption volumes in absolute terms are necessary. Businesses integrating sufficiency act as agent of change to transform current unsustainable practices along the entire supply chain. By observing the operationalization of sufficiency in 14 pioneer businesses, this study identifies dimensions and practice elements that characterize sufficiency in business practices. This study observed that the sufficiency in business practices mainly represents a rethinking of business doings on three dimensions: (1) rethinking the relation to consumption; (2) rethinking the relation to others; and (3) rethinking the social meaning of the own organization. Sufficiency practitioners understand production and consumption as a mean to fulfill basic human needs instead of satisfying consumer preferences. They co-create sufficiency-oriented value with peers in a sufficiency-oriented ecosystem and they redefine growth narratives by envisioning an end to material growth. Additionally, this study revealed that care, patience and learning competences are essential characteristics of sufficiency in business practices. Sufficiency practitioners reshape their business doings by caring for others and nature; they demonstrate patience to create slow, local, and fair provision systems; and they accept their shortcomings and learn from mistakes. Integrating elements of care, patience and learning in business practices reduce the risks of sufficiency-rebound effects. Ambivalences between the sufficiency purpose and growth-oriented path dependencies persists for sufficiency-oriented businesses. Further research should investigate pathways to overcome these ambivalences and shortcomings that sufficiency practitioners experience, for instance, by exploring political and cultural settings that foster sufficiency-oriented economic activity. KW - sufficiency KW - enough KW - circular economy KW - circular society KW - production and consumption practices KW - social practice theory Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsus.2022.949710/full U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2022.949710 SN - 2673-4524 VL - 3 SP - 1 EP - 25 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Klose, Janina A1 - Meißner, Magdalena A1 - Beyeler, Laura A1 - Stuhr, Luisa A1 - Jaeger-Erben, Melanie T1 - Reparaturbildung gestalten - Erfahrungsberichte & Anregungen für Lehrende KW - Reparatur KW - Bildung Y1 - 2023 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/87116/1/external_content.pdf SN - 9783763976133 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3278/9783763976140 PB - wbv CY - Bielefeld ET - 1st edition ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Beyeler, Laura ED - Gossen, Maike ED - Niessen, Laura T1 - Sufficiency and the Logic of Care - Transforming the Relationships, Practices and Temporalities of Businesses T2 - Sufficiency in Business N2 - Sufficiency in business represents a shift froma logic of profit towards a logic of care. The purpose of sufficiency-oriented businesses is to serve the fulfilment of needs. A logic of care transforms the relationships, practices and temporalities of businesses and represents leverage to enable sufficiency in praxis. KW - Sufficiency KW - Care Ethics KW - Business practices KW - Sustainability Transformation KW - Production and Consumption Practices Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-3-8394-6910-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839469101-008 SP - 95 EP - 114 PB - Transcript CY - Bielefeld ET - 1st edition ER - TY - GEN A1 - Beyeler, Laura A1 - Eimterbäumer, Marlene A1 - Jürgens, Meret A1 - Böckel, Alexa A1 - Schoch, Konrad A1 - Bichler, Regina M. A1 - Straub-Mück, Michael A1 - Molnár, Magdolna A1 - Jaeger-Erben, Melanie T1 - We have to talk! : claims of early career researchers to transform circular economy research T2 - Resources, conservation and recycling KW - Circular Economy KW - Sustainable Transformation KW - Early Career Researchers Y1 - 2025 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344925003015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2025.108423 VL - 221 SP - 1 EP - 3 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - GEN A1 - Beyeler, Laura A1 - Jaeger-Erben, Melanie T1 - Sufficiency as a matter of care : practices to provide for needs T2 - Ecological economics N2 - Sufficiency can be understood as the endeavors of economic actors to fulfill needs by delivering only what is necessary. This interpretation reveals a relationship between sufficiency and care economics, as both advocate for a need-centered economy. This study demonstrates the influence and support of care on the performance of sufficiency. It is divided into two parts: (1) the development of a care framework that describes the meanings and enablers of care, and (2) the analysis of empirical data from 14 sufficiency-oriented businesses from a care perspective using the care framework. The findings indicate that from a care perspective, the world is a network of vulnerable and interconnected beings who require individuals to engage in care relationships and activities. Time, financial resources, knowledge, collaboration, technologies, and narratives are essential enablers of care and, as the findings demonstrate, contribute to the implementation of sufficiency. This study proposes a novel narrative of sufficiency as a matter of care and encourages future scholars and practitioners to understand sufficiency orientation as part of a care economy—one that fulfils the needs of society over targeting profit maximization. KW - Sufficiency KW - Care ethics KW - Care economics KW - Systems of provision KW - Sustainability transformation KW - Grounded Theory Y1 - 2025 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925002204#s0090 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108737 SN - 0921-8009 VL - 238 IS - 108737 SP - 1 EP - 15 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -