This article proposes a refined conceptual framework to understand and act upon sustainable market transformation processes. Currently, there is a knowledge gap between government-oriented approaches to transition management and market formation that is addressed in evolutionary economics. Consequently, this article builds upon literature in the field of evolutionary economics, systems theory and transition management, to conceptualize the causal loops which trigger collective behavior facing sustainability issues. Furthermore, it proposes how these causal loops can be altered by interventions of actors in four sequential transition phases and illustrates what kind of interventions are most effective to accelerate a sustainable market transformation process. Promising avenues for future empirical studies based on the suggested conceptual framework, are the investigation of how the concepts of sustainable market transformation are applied in different market contexts and the evaluation of whether the applied interventions actually alter the underlying causal loops.

本文提出了一个完善的概念框架，以理解可持续的市场转型过程并采取行动。目前，在以政府为导向的转型管理方法与演化经济学中解决的市场形成之间存在知识差距。因此，本文以进化经济学、系统理论和转型管理领域的文献为基础，对引发面临可持续性问题的集体行为的因果循环进行概念化。此外，它提出了如何通过参与者在四个连续过渡阶段的干预来改变这些因果循环，并说明哪种干预措施最有效地加速可持续的市场转型过程。基于建议的概念框架的未来实证研究的有希望的途径，