Building on the chapter “Businesses and industries in sustainability transitions” in the STRN agenda, this viewpoint calls for more attention to how economic and environmental goals can be aligned to enhance the political legitimacy of transitions. This requires, we suggest, a more integrated understanding of the relationship between industrial transformation and sustainability transitions. We provide a tentative articulation of such a perspective by recombining insights from the fields of Industrial Dynamics and Transition Studies. We point to three issues that can serve as starting points for developing such a perspective and argue why those merit more attention in transition studies. These include: (a) attention to the diversity of sectors and firms involved in, and affected by, transitions through inter-sectoral linkages, (b) how existing knowledge bases influence the direction and scope of transitions, and (c) policy challenges associated with parallel transitions in multiple sectors that constitute economy-wide processes of structural change.

在STRN议程的“可持续发展转型中的工商业”一章的基础上，该观点呼吁人们更加关注如何协调经济和环境目标，以增强转型的政治合法性。我们建议，这需要对工业转型与可持续性转型之间的关系有更全面的了解。我们通过结合来自工业动力学和转型研究领域的见解，提供了这种观点的初步阐述。我们指出了三个可以作为发展这种观点的起点的问题，并指出了为什么这些问题在过渡研究中值得更多关注。其中包括：（a）注意通过部门间联系而参与过渡并受其影响的部门和公司的多样性，