This comparative literature review aims to explore how a growing body of interdisciplinary post-growth literature aligns, extends or challenges progressive corporate sustainability (“CS”) research (i.e., rooted in system thinking and emphasising planetary boundaries and ecological limits). Using a framework grounded in four theoretical themes extracted from the progressive CS research — Place, Resources, Scale and Time —we systemically demonstrate that the two literatures share closely aligned intellectual foundations yet retain key distinctions. We call for post-growth-oriented CS research by offering four promising directions: examining managerial reflexivity on micro-macroeconomics models and practices, investigating business functioning bounded to “beyond-profit” and “systemic change” purposes, exploring sufficiency and prosumption-based organising. We thus outline a framework for CS researchers to embed post-growth thinking in advancing sustainability research in management.
