Frugal value : designing business for a crowded planet / Carina Millstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millstone, Carina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainability.

Business planning.

Social responsibility of business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

This book explores what business responsibility looks like today, and how it could be put into practice through far-reaching changes to companies, ranging from new approaches to product design and business models to reconfiguration of operations and innovative ownership structures.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: the failure of sustainable business

Part 1: The Crowded Planet

1 The economy-in-Planet

2 The transition to the economy-in-Planet

Part 2: Products and services

3 The purpose and design of products

4 Properties of efficient and sufficient products

Part 3: Activities and business models

5 Product stewardship

6 Product access

Part 4: Operations and supply chains

7 The case for proximity and appropriate scale

8 The case for worker-centredness

Part 5: Ownership structure, financing and legal form

9 The problem with shareholdership in the legacy economy

10 Ownership by workers, beneficiaries and investors

Part 6: The purpose, scope and limits of business

11 Profit, financial and worthwhile

12 Lifestyle creation, through business or otherwise

Conclusion: what would it take to make frugal value possible?

Bibliography

Glossary

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 16, 2017).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-351-24414-0

1-351-24415-9

9781351244152

OCLC:

1001999791