Professor Oksana Mont has been awarded a six-month fellowship from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) to conduct research at Tokyo College, University of Tokyo. The project, titled Thriving without growth: Japanese pathways for sustainable business, examines how companies and institutions operate in a context of prolonged low or no economic growth.

The PGB team met with Professor Julia Steinberger to discuss her work with the REAL project.

As part of the Post-Growth Business seminar series, we welcomed Mario Pansera in December 2025. During his talk, Mario challenged one of the most persistent assumptions in sustainability debates: that innovation, if only properly accelerated, will solve our ecological and social crises.

From September to November 2025, the PGB research team had the pleasure of welcoming Lotte Levelt, a PhD candidate from Nyenrode Business University, as a visiting researcher at the IIIEE.

This project explores the role of business in a post-growth economy. It proposes a new research field on post-growth business models to advance the …