ABSTRACT
Scholarship on degrowth in the context of organisation(s), on the one hand, is scattered and piecemeal. Large parts of this scholarship focus on the redesign of enterprise and business, often disregarding the growth and accumulation purpose within capitalism. On the other hand, the scholarship on organisations is often relegated to the sidelines in the wider context of degrowth scholarship – viewing organisations solely as provisioners of goods and services within wider policy proposals for a degrowth transformation. This chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth (2025) seeks to tackle some of these oversights. It reiterates and re-emphasises the need for a move beyond the reconceptualisation of capitalist businesses. The chapter highlights commoning as an organisational form that can relatively easily embody degrowth practices and provides a framing of commoning for degrowth. By exploring the examples of a tool library (Brisbane Tool Library, Queensland, Australia) and an energy community organisation (CommonEn (2021–), Ioannina, Greece), the chapter further illustrates how these organisations are not solely provisioners but can also be political agents for degrowth.
