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 - 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 -