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Examining Social Enterprises for Sustainable Degrowth Transition

This dissertation explores the potential of social enterprises in facilitating a shift towards degrowth for a more sustainable economy. It investigates the alignment between social enterprises and degrowth principles, their transformative potential, and the evolutionary processes they engage in to achieve a degrowth transition. The study also suggests key areas for further research in business models and social enterprise democracy.

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Examining Social Enterprises for Sustainable Degrowth Transition

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  1. The democratic way down? The applicability of Social enterprises for a sustainable degrowth transition Ruth Trainor BSc Sustainability and Environmental Management Undergraduate Dissertation

  2. Overview What’s the problem with the economy? Introduction to degrowth, social enterprises and economic evolution Methods How well do social enterprises align with degrowth? How can they influence a degrowth transition? Areas for further research

  3. The planet Source: Steffen et al., 2015

  4. The people

  5. degrowth Source: Raworth (2012)

  6. Social enterprises Source: IED (2017)

  7. Evolutionary economics • Scalability • Replicability • Integrability • Imitability • (Schalteggeret al., 2016)

  8. My research questions How compatible are social enterprises with degrowth principles? What evolutionary processes do social enterprises engage with in order to achieve a degrowth transition?

  9. Photo: Marten Newhall Methods

  10. Social enterprise compatibility with degrowth

  11. Social enterprise transformative potential

  12. Photo: Simon Rae Key areas for further research Business models for degrowth Social enterprise democracy ‘Selection’ and ‘retention’ in other organisations

  13. Key references Bull, M. and Crompton, H. 2006. Business practices in social enterprises. Social Enterprise Journal. 2 (1). Pp. 42-60.  Dietz, R. and O’Neill, D. W. 2013. Enough is Enough. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.  Fournier, V. 2008. Escaping from the economy: the politics of degrowth. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 28 (11/12). Pp. 528-545.  Jackson, T. 2017. Prosperity without growth. 2nd Ed. Oxon: Routledge. Kallis, 2011. In defence of degrowth. Ecological Economics. 70. Pp. 873-880.   Latouche, S. 2009. Farewell to growth. Cambridge: Polity Press. Raworth, K. 2012. A Safe and Just Space for Humanity: Can We Live Within the Doughnut? Oxfam Discussion Paper. [Online] [Accessed 21.03.19] Available from: https://www-cdn.oxfam.org/s3fs-public/file_attachments/dp-a-safe-and-just-space-for-humanity-130212-en_5.pdf Schaltegger, S., Ludeke-Freund, F. and Hansen, E. G. 2016. Business models for sustainability: a co-evolutionary analysis of sustainable entrepreneurship, innovation and transformation. Organization & Environment. 29 (3). Pp. 264-289. Steffen, W., Richardson, K., Rockstrom, J., Cornell, S. E., Fetzer, S., Bennett, E. M., Biggs, R., Carpenter, S. R., de Vries, W., de Wit, C. A., Folke, C., Gerten, D, Hienke, J., Mace, G. M., Persson, L. M., Ramanathan, V., Reyers, B. and Sorlin, S. 2015. Planetary boundaries: guiding human development on a changing planet. Science. 347 (6223). Pp. 736-748.

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