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Managing Sustainability Alliances: A Goal-Directed Framework

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: To address climate change, firms are increasingly forming sustainability alliances. Pursuing sustainability via such alliances is challenging as it means working with multifaceted and not necessarily compatible goals. Moreover, it often requires collaboration among heterogeneous partners outside traditional industrial contexts as well as dealing with wicked problems. This article presents a multiple-case study of eight sustainability alliances in Sweden, identifying managerial challenges and solutions over three phases where such alliances unfold. It offers a framework, tailored to each phase, to help companies fulfill their goals by proactively addressing the challenges posed by the pursuit of sustainability through alliances.

Source: California Management Review

DOI: 10.1177/00081256241296897

Authors: Elizaveta Johansson, Johan Frishammar, Anna Brattström

Institutions: Luleå University of Technology, Lund University

Language: English

Topic: Business Strategy and Innovation

Subfield: Strategy and Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,700