2021/05/15 by Jennifer Hinton · 3 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · #Environmental Sustainability in Business #Innovation and Socioeconomic Development #Sustainable Supply Chain Management
paper · doi:10.1016/j.futures.2021.102761
openalex publication_date 2021/05/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
As there has been no evidence of the kind of environmental decoupling necessary to allow for green economic growth, academic and activist discussions alike have turned to exploring post-growth pathways. Such a transformation entails a significant shift in economic institutions, yet post-growth analyses of what is problematic about businesses and how to resolve these issues are piecemeal. This article offers an overview and synthesis of key findings in the emerging post-growth business literature. Using institutional analysis, it develops a framework that conceptually ties together five dimensions of business that have been identified as most important for post-growth transformations: relationship-to-profit, incorporation structure, governance structure, strategy, and size and geographical scope. The intention of developing this five-dimensions framework is to offer a more coherent and concrete theoretical basis for ongoing discussions about which types of business are compatible, or incompatible, with post-growth pathways.