Sufficiency: Genealogy and Appropriation by Business

Benjamin Combes (), Franck Aggeri () and Valérie Guillard ()
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Benjamin Combes: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
Franck Aggeri: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Valérie Guillard: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: In Autumn 2022, the French President called for "voluntary sufficiency" to avoid energy rationing. The term is increasingly used in public discourse, yet policies face societal and business resistance. To understand this tension, we seek to explore how businesses understand, appropriate, or resist the concept of sufficiency. To do this, we shed light on the concept by bridging management research with historical and philosophical perspectives. We conclude that management research overlooks the roots of sufficiency, focusing instead on normative ecological models (planetary limits, corridors...). Yet, it is a reflective practice, distinct from poverty or austerity. For businesses, it enables emancipation from growth imperatives. Future research should explore these dynamics, refine indicators, and analyse exemplary cases to better understand sufficiency as a transformative, value-driven business practice.

Keywords: appropriation; business models; genealogy; sufficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-06-02
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Published in Sufficiency Summer School, Jun 2025, Paris, France. , 2025

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