Relationship-to-profit theory and related frameworks:

• Hinton, J.B., Relationship-to-profit: A theory of business, markets, and profit for social ecological economics, PhD thesis, 2021
• Hinton, J.B., Fit for purpose? Clarifying the critical role of profit for sustainability, Journal of Political Ecology, 2020
• Hinton, J.B., Five key dimensions of post-growth business: Putting the pieces together, Futures journal, 2021
• Hinton, J.B., Limits to Profit? A conceptual framework for understanding profit and sustainability, PEN Working Paper, 2022
• Vrettos, C., Hinton, J.B., & Pereira, L., A framework to assess the degrowth transformative capacity of niche initiatives, Degrowth Journal, 2024
• Hinton, J.B., A Not-For-Profit Economy for a Regenerative Sustainable World, book chapter in Transformation Literacy, 2022

Case studies and other analyses:

• Chakori, S. et al., From innovation to exnovation: insights from post-growth food enterprises in Australia, Ecological Economics, 2026
• Persson, O. & Hinton, J.B., Second-hand clothing markets and a just circular economy? Exploring the role of business forms and profit, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023
• Enarsson, D., Hinton, J.B., & Borgström, S., Grassroots initiatives transforming cities toward post-growth futures: Insights from the collaborative economy movement in Gothenburg, Sweden, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024
• Hinton, J.B., Profit as a Means or an End? A conceptual framework, PEN Working Paper, 2022
• Robra, B. & Hinton, J.B., Economic Organizations and the Transformation Towards Degrowth, chapter 11 in The Handbook of Organizing Economic, Ecological and Societal Transformation, 2024
• Raphael, R., Hinton, J.B., Paulsson, A., Koch, M., Islar, M., & Grolimund, N., Postgrowth welfare systems: a view from the Nordic context, Consumption and Society, 2024
• Hinton, J.B., A Not-for-Profit Transformation for a Fair and Sustainable Future, in Sustainable by Design: Industrial Policy for Long-term Competitiveness in the EU, 2024
• Hinton, J. & Maclurcan, D., A Not-for-Profit World Beyond Capitalism and Economic Growth?, Ephemera Journal, 2017
• Schneider, A., Hinton, J., et al., Can transnational corporations leverage systemic change towards a ‘sustainable’ future?, Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2020
• Hinton, J. & Maclurcan D., How on Earth: Flourishing in a not-for-profit world by 2050, working draft from 2016
• Downing, A. et al., Matching scope, purpose and uses of planetary boundaries science, Environmental Research Letters, 2019