Despite the growing importance of corporate sustainability, research on strategic alliances between corporations and sustainable startups remains limited. While corporations struggle with implementing radical sustainability‐oriented innovation, sustainable startups face challenges in scaling and validation. Given their complementary resources, partnerships between these entities offer significant potential to accelerate sustainable transitions. However, existing literature has largely overlooked the distinct drivers, barriers, and shared resources that characterize sustainability‐oriented corporate‐startup alliances, focusing instead on conventional or digital‐oriented collaborations. This study addresses this gap through a multiple case study of eight sustainability‐driven corporate‐startup partnerships in Chile. Using a grounded theory approach, we identify 21 drivers, 14 barriers, and 10 shared resource types, revealing the dual role of resource acquisition and legitimacy‐building in fostering sustainable collaborations. Our findings offer new theoretical insights and practical recommendations for enhancing the success of sustainability‐oriented alliances.

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从挑战到影响：以可持续发展为导向的企业初创企业联盟中的驱动因素、障碍和共享资源

尽管企业可持续发展的重要性日益增加，但关于企业与可持续初创公司之间战略联盟的研究仍然有限。当公司努力实施以可持续发展为导向的激进创新时，可持续发展的初创公司在扩展和验证方面面临挑战。鉴于其互补资源，这些实体之间的合作伙伴关系为加速可持续转型提供了巨大潜力。然而，现有的文献在很大程度上忽视了以可持续发展为导向的企业-初创企业联盟所特有的不同驱动因素、障碍和共享资源，而是专注于传统或以数字为导向的合作。本研究通过对智利 8 个可持续发展驱动的企业-初创企业合作伙伴关系的多个案例研究来解决这一差距。使用扎根理论方法，我们确定了 21 个驱动因素、14 个障碍和 10 种共享资源类型，揭示了资源获取和合法性建设在促进可持续合作中的双重作用。我们的研究结果为提高以可持续发展为导向的联盟的成功提供了新的理论见解和实用建议。