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.

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管理可持续发展联盟：目标导向框架


为了应对气候变化，公司越来越多地组建可持续发展联盟。通过此类联盟追求可持续发展是具有挑战性的，因为这意味着要实现多方面且不一定兼容的目标。此外，它通常需要传统工业环境之外的异质合作伙伴之间的合作以及处理棘手的问题。本文介绍了瑞典八个可持续发展联盟的多个案例研究，确定了此类联盟开展的三个阶段的管理挑战和解决方案。它提供了一个针对每个阶段量身定制的框架，通过积极应对通过联盟追求可持续发展所带来的挑战，帮助公司实现其目标。