This new study by Shahrokh Nikou and Erik-Jan Hultink from TU Delft, and Nancy Bocken from Maastricht University published in Business Strategy and the Environment investigates sufficiency in an organisational context. Efficiency-led sustainability is important but often fails to deliver absolute reductions in resource use, leaving organisations exposed to rebound effects. Through a systematic review of 70 peer-reviewed studies, using the Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) framework to connect enabling conditions, organisational practices and sustainability performance the study identifies eight thematic clusters reflecting how sufficiency is enacted across domains such as governance and policy, organisational practices, social norms, and infrastructural systems. Building on these, a typology of five strategic types is developed through which organisations operationalise sufficiency.
