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Firms are being impelled to promote corporate sustainability, in other words, to consider not only economic issues, but also environmental and social impacts of their decisions and operations. Due to this extension of responsibility, it is not difficult to imagine that firms need to consider other players, such as clients, suppliers, non-profit organizations, government, research institutes and universities, etc.. In this context, the paper is based on the following research question: how can the academic literature study the main aspects of interorganizational alliance related to corporate sustainability? In order to answer it, a systematic literature review based on a bibliometric approach is chosen as research method. Descriptive statistics and network analysis bring interesting insight to academic field, such as: (i) the solid literature on supply chain management need to be used and adapted in order to contribute to corporate sustainability; (ii) the issue of partnerships for sustainability is far from being done; (iii) such partnerships can be supported by strategic arguments (specially the resource-based view); and (iv) the literature presents two approaches (one static view of alliances for sustainability that focuses on the characterization of the situation and another dynamic approach that engages itself to change and improvement such alliances).
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