Significant global sustainability challenges include among others, energy, climate, and sanitation. Previous Sustainability Transition research has attempted to understand transformation complexity and interdependence, primarily through single-case methodological studies or large-scale analytical frameworks such as the Multi-Level Perspective. This leaves a knowledge gap on common dynamics underlying transition processes and emergent behaviors. To fill this gap, we conducted a cross-sectoral analysis of five system dynamics sustainability transition models with the objective of finding a common system archetype. An archetype emerged from a multi-step, mixed method structural analysis of these models. The extracted archetype captures generalizable sustainable transition dynamics across a diversity of research domains and temporal scales. The structural drivers of sustainability transitions within this archetype are used to discuss future research and practice that seeks to provide insight on common transition dynamics, deeper clarity on leverage points capable of managing transitions, and a framework for subsequent transition modeling archetype analyses.

全球可持续发展面临的重大挑战包括能源、气候和卫生等。以前的可持续发展转型研究主要通过单案例方法研究或大规模分析框架（例如多层次视角）来尝试了解转型的复杂性和相互依赖性。这使得人们对转型过程和突发行为的共同动力存在知识差距。为了填补这一空白，我们对五个系统动力学可持续性转型模型进行了跨部门分析，目的是找到一个共同的系统原型。通过对这些模型进行多步骤、混合方法的结构分析，得出了一个原型。提取的原型捕捉了跨多个研究领域和时间尺度的普遍可持续转型动态。