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- Managing sustainability transitions : a multi-perspective analysis of challenges and strategic instrumentsPublication . Oehne, Nico Laurens; Parada, PedroThis dissertation explores how literature, companies and consultants perceive the challenges of sustainability transitions, focusing on the strategic enablers that help organizations manage risks, capture opportunities, and navigate systemic complexity. To achieve this, the study triangulates insights from three complementary sources: academic literature, expert interviews with consultants, and corporate annual and sustainability reports. The findings reveal that risks are perceived primarily in financial and operational terms, including regulatory non-compliance, misalignment with market demands, and the failure to anticipate emerging risks. Opportunities, in turn, are framed as pathways to resilience, future- proofing, employer attractiveness, and competitive advantage through sustainable products and operations. External pressures from regulation, financial markets, and shifting customer demand emerged as the dominant transition drivers shaping corporate action. Despite these opportunities, companies face significant challenges, such as the tension between profitability and sustainability, competing managerial priorities, politicisation, supply chain interdependencies, and scalability constraints. Strategic enablers identified across data sources include visioning, sustainability screening, stakeholder involvement, scenario planning, portfolio management, and partnerships. Together, these enablers help link long-term ambitions to operational realities, embed sustainability in business logic, and strengthen accountability. The thesis contributes academically by embedding corporate sustainability within the systemic and contested dynamics of transitions, countering the reductionist tendencies identified by Shiva (1993). By situating firms within broader regulatory, societal, and supply chain contexts, it highlights the need for business model reinvention and measurement tools, such as the Sustainability Balanced Scorecard, to translate sustainability into tangible value creation.