Escalating ecological degeneration and mounting social challenges highlight the need to rethink the current way of doing business. Human and business activities rely on functioning social-ecological systems but tend to take these for granted. Extant research on business sustainability has acknowledged the relevance of sustainability concerns for business strategy and organizing. Yet, dominant conceptualizations of business sustainability remain focused on the organization and its business case, in the quest to find strategies that translate less harmful social and environmental practices into competitive advantages. Only few scholars have gone beyond such a commercial logic and adopted a systems approach to derive business strategies from the logic of social-ecological systems. In this article, we propose that taking a systems approach means to conceptualize business sustainability in terms of regenerative business, that is, businesses that enhance, and thrive through, the health of social-ecological systems in a co-evolutionary process. As our main contribution, we develop the restore-preserve-enhance scale for regenerative business strategies reflecting a continuum of strategies for regeneration. These strategies follow from two main principles and related criteria for a systems-based level of aspiration and an adaptive management approach to regeneration. By doing so, we fundamentally shift the focus away from a business logic to a systems logic. Importantly, we offer concrete strategies for organizations to contribute to life-supporting conditions in social-ecological systems.

不断加剧的生态退化和日益严峻的社会挑战凸显了重新考虑当前经商方式的必要性。人类和商业活动依赖于功能良好的社会生态系统，但往往将其视为理所当然。关于业务可持续性的现有研究已经认识到可持续性问题与业务战略和组织的相关性。但是，企业可持续性的主要概念仍然集中在组织及其业务案例上，以寻求找到将危害较小的社会和环境实践转化为竞争优势的策略。只有极少数的学者超越了这种商业逻辑，并采用了一种系统方法来从社会生态系统的逻辑中得出商业策略。在这篇文章中，我们建议采用系统方法意味着根据再生业务来概念化业务可持续性，也就是在共同进化过程中增强和发展社会生态系统健康的业务。作为我们的主要贡献，我们针对可再生业务战略制定了恢复-保留-增强量表，该量表反映了再生策略的连续性。这些策略遵循两个主要原则和相关标准，以基于系统的愿望水平和自适应管理方法进行再生。通过这样做，我们从根本上将重点从业务逻辑转移到了系统逻辑。重要的是，我们为组织提供了为社会生态系统中的生命维持条件做出贡献的具体策略。