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dc.contributor.authorNesterova, Iana
dc.contributor.authorRobra, Ben 
dc.contributor.editorRoutledgespa
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-19T11:59:46Z
dc.date.available2023-09-19T11:59:46Z
dc.date.issued2022-11-23
dc.identifier.citationEn The role of business in global sustainability transformations (201-216)spa
dc.identifier.isbn9781003003588
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11093/5127
dc.description.abstractThis chapter investigates the relationship between business and a strongly sustainable society by framing it as a question. It argues that even though such a relationship is far from straightforward, in simple yes-and-no terms, the answer to the question of whether business and a strongly sustainable society can co-exist is ‘no’. This is because business, as an inherently capitalist mode of production, existing for the purpose of capital accumulation, is not compatible with a truly strongly sustainable society, which opposes material growth and capital accumulation. Not only is ‘business as usual’ impossible in a strongly sustainable society, but so is reformed business (i.e., improved but not fully transformed), which retains at its core the imperative of profit-making and maximisation, while simultaneously attempting to supplement it with consideration of the environment and of people. This chapter argues that only after undergoing a radical, all-encompassing transformation will businesses, as social entities, become suitable for a strongly sustainable society. Such a transformation means going beyond business; each business becoming an alternative economic organisation. Going beyond business requires a significant change in the way we are in and relate to the world, rather than knowledge of concrete organisational forms and practices.spa
dc.language.isoengspa
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
dc.titleBusiness in a strongly sustainable societyen
dc.typebookPartspa
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessspa
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003003588
dc.identifier.editorhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003003588spa
dc.publisher.departamentoOrganización de empresas e márketingspa
dc.publisher.placeLondonspa
dc.publisher.grupoinvestigacionPOST GROWTH INNOVATION LABspa
dc.subject.unesco5399 Otras Especialidades económicasspa
dc.subject.unesco5310.05 Política Económica Internacionalspa
dc.contributor.editorLiteraryD’Amato, Dalia
dc.contributor.editorLiteraryToppinen, Anne
dc.contributor.editorLiteraryKozak, Robert
dc.date.updated2023-09-19T06:49:35Z
dc.computerCitationpub_title=The role of business in global sustainability transformations|volume=|start_pag=201|end_pag=216spa


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