What Doughnut Economics means for businesses
This paper contains background & details on the concept of regenerative & distributive enterprise design. Authored 2022
What Doughnut Economics Means for Business: creating enterprises that are regenerative and distributive by design
This paper was published in 2022 to accompany the Doughnut Design for Business tool. It contains background context and further detail on the core concepts that Doughnut Economics uses in the realm of business and enterprise. It also contains examples of businesses embodying aspects of regenerative and distributive enterprise design.
The paper was co-authored by:
- Erinch Sahan, Carlota Sanz Ruiz and Kate Raworth of Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL); and
- Willem van Winden and Daniel van den Buuse of Centre for Economic Transformation (CET) at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA)
The original paper was written in English. Translations of the paper are available in French, German, Portuguese and Spanish via this folder.
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