Edited by Satu Teerikangas, Professor, Department of Management and Organisation, University of Turku, Finland and Honorary Professor, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, UK, Tiina Onkila, Associate Professor, Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä, Katariina Koistinen, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Management and Organisation, University of Turku and Marileena Mäkelä, Senior Lecturer, Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics and School of Resource Wisdom, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency 1Satu Teerikangas, Katariina Koistinen, Tiina Onkila, Marileena MäkeläPART I INDIVIDUAL AGENCY2 Theorising individual agency within sociotechnical sustainabilitytransitions frames: a social psychological review 29Paul Upham, Paula Bögel, Rita G. Klapper and Eva Kašperová3 Sustainability agency at the top of the organization: microfoundationsresearch on corporate sustainability 46Ashley Salaiz, Shih-chi (Sana) Chiu and Judith L. Walls4 Not dinosaurs but dynamos: the roles of middle managers in corporatesocial responsibility and sustainable development issues 62Gustavo Birollo, Susana Esper and Linda Rouleau5 Barriers to implementing sustainability experienced by middlemanagers in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods and Retail sector 75Andrew Mountfield, Kelly Hrajnoha, Leslie Koh, Lija Lascenko, RenataPuchala and Cornelia Schalch6 Employee agency in the context of organisational sustainability 92Sally Russell, Fay Giæver and Tiina Onkila7 The role of ambivalence in sustainable consumption: literature reviewand research agenda 103Jenni SipiläPART II ACTIVE AGENCY8 Roles and practices of institutional workers in climate change action: a review 123Jan Hermes and Mikołaj Pawlak9 Sustainability activism: a review of the state of the art 139Marileena Mäkelä and Laura Olkkonen10 Emotions in sustainability work: the case of ecopreneurs 157Fay Giæver and Sally Russell11 Social entrepreneurship as sustainability agency 166Hanna Lehtimäki, Subhanjan Sengupta, Ville-Veikko Piispanen and KaisaHenttonen12 Agency of citizen collectives in sustainable transitions: the case ofrenewable energy cooperatives in Europe 178Thomas Hoppe and Beau Warbroek13 Social movement organizations’ agency for sustainable organizing 194Helen Etchanchu, Frank G.A. de Bakker and Giuseppe DelmestriPART III RELATIONAL AGENCY14 Stakeholder engagement in sustainability transitions 211Lara Gonzalez-Porras, Anna Heikkinen, Johanna Kujala and Riikka Tapaninaho15 Partnerships to save the planet? Motivations, types and impacts ofsustainability partnerships 227Barbara Gray and Art Dewulf16 The role of sustainability agency in mergers and acquisitions 245Noelia-Sarah Reynolds and Melanie E. Hassett17 Circular economy ecosystems: a typology, definitions, and implications 257Leena Aarikka-Stenroos, Paavo Ritala and Llewellyn D. W. Thomas18 Agency and sustainability in the construction industry 274Niamh Murtagh and Natalya Sergeeva19 Distributed agency in living labs for sustainability transitions 290Anil Engez, Paul H. Driessen, Leena Aarikka-Stenroos and Marika Kokko20 The interagency cycle in sustainability transitions 303Ari Jokinen, Jarmo Uusikartano, Pekka Jokinen and Marika KokkoPART IV GOVERNANCE21 Law, agency and sustainability: the role of law in creating sustainability agency 318Jaakko Salminen and Mikko Rajavuori22 Predictions from Transitions theories, Dynamic Capabilities and RealOptions theory on the role of governments as agents of sustainability 331Ilias Krystallis and Katariina Koistinen23 Local governments using their agency in sustainable transitions 346Thomas Hoppe24 Corporate sustainability from a strategic management perspective: oneway for companies to support sustainability transitions 362Romana Rauter and Sabrina Lämmerer25 Sustainable consumption in the developing world: the case of India 376Shenaz Rangwala and Chanaka Jayawardhena26 Sustainability practices in informal economies: actors, roles, andresearch outlook 390Stefan GröschlPART V SUSTAINABILITY AGENCY27 Synthesis and future research directions 400Satu Teerikangas, Katariina Koistinen, Tiina Onkila and Marileena MäkeläIndex