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Beyeler, L. & Jaeger-Erben, M. (2025) Sufficiency as a matter of care: practices to provide for needs. Ecological Economics, 238(108737), 1-15. doi. org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108737

Molnár, M., & Jaeger-Erben, M. (2025). Supporting consumer engagement in electronics repair: effects of financial incentives and voucher schemes.Journal of Responsible Production and Consumption, 2(1), 191-234.

Jaeger-Erben, M., Gram-Hanssen, K., Hansen, A. R., Frąckowiak, M., Guilbert, A., Pluciński, P., ... & Wertheim-Heck, D. S. (2025) Policies for Times of Disruptions: How Households in Europe Dealt with the Energy Crisis in the Winter 2022/2023. Available at SSRN 5092424.

Jaeger-Erben, Melanie/ Wagner, Andreas/ Bastian, Marco/ Bolln, Stefan/ Dütschke, Elisabeth/ Eiden, Benedikte/ Gierds, Jörn/ Grobler, Frederic/ Großmann, Katrin/ Hirschl, Bernd/ Holm, Andreas/ Menges, Roland/ Messerschmidt, Burkhard/ Reusswig, Fritz/ Schumacher, Jörg/ Streblow, Rita/ Weismann, Benjamin: "Wie gelingt die Energiewende im Gebäudebereich? Fields of action for a socially acceptable transformation" (Impulse), publication series "Energy Systems of the Future" (ESYS), 2025, doi.org/10.48669/esys_2025-3 .

Yalçın, N. G., Paredis, E., & Jaeger-Erben, M. (2025). Packaged science? Incumbent strategies of science capture from a power perspective. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 54, 100931.

Beyeler, L., Eimterbäumer, M., Jürgens, M., Böckel, A., Schoch, K., Bichler, R. M., Straub-Mück, M., Molnár, M., & Jaeger-Erben, M. (2025). We have to talk! Claims of early career researchers to transform circular economy research. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 221(108423), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2025.108423

Rabiu, M. K., & Jaeger-Erben, M. (2024). Reducing single-use plastic in everyday social practices: Insights from a living lab experiment. resources, Conservation and Recycling, 200, 107303.

Weber, H. & Jaeger-Erben, M. (2023). Circular Economy - The turn to closed cycles as a constant fiction. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Greene, M., Hobson, K., & Jaeger-Erben, M. (2023). Bringing the circular economy home-Insights from socio-technical perspectives on everyday consumption. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 100157.

Gerold, S., Buhl, J., Geiger, S.M. (2023). How to Enhance Time Wealth? Insights from Changes in Time Use and Working Conditions During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Germany. Social Indicators Research.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-023-03252-0

Klose, J., Meißner, M., Beyeler, L., Stuhr, L. & Jaeger-Erben, M. (2023) Designing repair education: Field reports & suggestions for teachers. Bielefeld: wbv Publication. https://doi. org/10.3278/9783763976140

Gerold, S., Hoffmann, M., Aigner, E. (2023). Towards a critical understanding of work in ecological economics: A postwork perspective. Ecological Economics, 212, 107935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107935

Jaeger-Erben, M. (2023). Planned obsolescence - an environmental sociological deconstruction. In: Sonnberger, M., Bleicher, A., Groß, M. (eds) Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37222-4_51-1

Hipp, T., Jaeger-Erben, M. (2023). "Doing Value: How Practices of Assigning Meaning Influence the Usetime of Devices. In: Jonas, M., Nessel, S., Tröger, N. (eds) Repair, Do-It-Yourself and Circular Economy. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40150-4_6

Yalçın, N. G., Paredis, E., & Jaeger-Erben, M. (2023). Contested discourses of a circular plastics economy in Europe: prioritising material, economy, or society? Environmental Politics, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2192145

Jaeger-Erben, M., Wieser, H., Marwede, M. & Hofmann, F. (2023). Durable Economies - Organising the Material Foundations of Society. transcript Verlag.

Jaeger-Erben, M. & Rigamonti. N. (2023). Citizen Science. In: Sonnberger, M., Bleicher, A., & Groß, M. (2023). Handbook of environmental sociology. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

Jaeger-Erben, M., Poppe, E., Wagner, E., Schaefer, A., Druschke, J., Gröger, J., Behrens, F. (2023). Analysis of the software-based influence on a shortened useful life of products. Federal Environment Agency, Texts 13/ 2023.

Froese, T., Richter, M., Hofmann, F. & Lüdeke-Freund, F. (2023). Degrowth-oriented organisational value creation: A systematic literature review of case studies. Ecological Economics, 207, 107765. doi. org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107765

Gerold, S.,Gruszka, K., Pillinger, A., Theine, H. (2022). Putzkraft aus dem Netz - Perspektiven und Erfahrungen von Reinigungskräften in der plattformvermittelten Haushaltsreinigung, Working Paper der HBS-Forschungsförderung Nr. 259.

Hofbauer, J., Gerold, S., Klaus, D., Wukovitsch, F. (2022). Chapter 7: Gainful employment. In: Görg, C., Madner, V., Muhar, A., Novy, A., Posch, A., Steininger, K., Aigner, E. (eds.): APCC Special Report: Structures for a climate-friendly life. Springer Spektrum: Berlin/Heidelberg, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4223121

Hofmann, F. (2022). Circular Economy and economic (de-)growth? Let's shift the baselines! Resources, Conservation, and Recycling. doi. org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106604

Jaeger-Erben, M., & Hielscher, S. (2022). Repairing conditions: How repairing and do-it-yourself changes our relationship to the world. transcript Verlag.

Barth, T., Jaeger-Erben, M., Jochum, G. & Lorenz, S. (eds.) (2022): Creating sustainable value? Labour and technology in the socio-ecological transformation (= Arbeitsgesellschaft im Wandel), Weinheim: Juventa Verlag an imprint of Julius Beltz GmbH & Co KG.

Geiger, S.M., Gerold, S. (2022). Interdisciplinary sustainability sciences: Time prosperity. Insights from the pandemic-related restrictions as an opportunity for social deceleration. In: Mundt, I./Sellig, J./Henkel, A. (Eds.), 10 Minuten Soziologie: Stress. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 151-162. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839459614-012

Rabiu, M. K., & Jaeger-Erben, M. (2022). Appropriation and routinisation of circular consumer practices: A review of current knowledge in the circular economy literature. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 100081.

Beyeler, L. & Jaeger-Erben, M. (2022): How to make more of less: Characteristics of sufficiency in business practices, in: Frontiers in Sustainability 3.