2025 年 34 巻 1 号 p. 99-111
Net zero greenhouse gas emissions target requires transitions of socio-technical and socio-ecological systems and regimes, which goes beyond policy implementations and investments in technological measures, and thus the scope of environmental economics and policy studies. With conventional theoretical frameworks combined, sustainable transition research has emerged to understand transitions, power, politics, and governance to direct transitions toward sustainability, civil society, industry, business, and daily life in transitions, as well as implications for justice. Given the boosting research interests in the seemingly contesting agendas of sustainable business model innovation(SBMI)and just transitions, we conducted a systematic literature review with bibliometric analysis to elucidate how to reconcile SBMI with just transitions to make transitions just and sustainable. Our study reveals that just transitions are understood as energy community, universal access to sustainable energy, and environmental safeguard against mining projects in the context of SBMI, and few integrated analyses have been published due to the lack of conceptual and analytical framework enabling comprehensive understanding. It argues that integrated analyses are indispensable to understanding the impacts of emerging global value chains advancing sustainability transitions and international development research can make substantial contributions to the analyses. Our finding implies a wider space for international development studies to fill the research gap.