Abstract for: Is the business of energy transition a “fix that fails?”

While emerging research proposes a transdisciplinary research agenda as an avenue for actionable grand challenges solutions, I propose a holistic and transregional agenda as equally critical in this debate. Such an approach is important because our well-intentioned efforts to solve societal grand challenges can be self-defeating due to unforeseen feedback mechanisms generated by our interventions. To unravel such unintended consequences, I explore the implications of the business of energy transition in both sources of critical energy minerals and markets of clean energy products. My work will be qualitative, leveraging interview and archival data from institutional actors in the business of energy transition. The results of this study will contribute to both systems thinking and institutional theory by exploring implications of organizational responses for achieving societal level outcomes.