Abstract
The diversity of local economies represents a central factor for the success of sustainability transformations at municipal levels. But especially the heterogeneous structures of familyowned, locally based (small-scale) businesses seem to be threatened in their existence by market concentration and branching processes. At the same time, municipal planning departments as well as local administrations and politics have not yet taken account of all sectors of local economies and their differing needs. Searching levers for governance interventions to promote and maintain local economies therefore requires more attention. Family-owned, locally based (smallscale) food trade businesses, which represent the case study of this paper, are currently exposed to existential threats. In a first step, the causes of the business closures and the accompanying expectations and strategic considerations are nalysed via qualitative expert interviews with bakeries and butchers in two medium-sized towns in Southern Germany. This is done from a systemic perspective, in the form of modelling causal loop diagrams and the classification of these into so-called system archetypes. The aim is, in a second step, to identify leverage points for governance interventions, through which local authorities can support the branches of the (small-scale) local economy
Highlights
The diversity of local economies represents a central factor for the success of sustainability transformations at municipal levels
Especially the heterogeneous structures of familyowned, locally based businesses seem to be threatened in their existence by market concentration and branching processes
The causes of the business closures and the accompanying expectations and strategic considerations are analysed via qualitative expert interviews with bakeries and butchers in two medium-sized towns in Southern Germany
Summary
Lokale Ökonomien sind nicht nur charakteristische, son dern auch wesentlich konstituierende Elemente von Städten und Gemeinden (Sperle 2012: 68-69). Inhabergeführte, unabhängige Unternehmen haben posi tive Effekte auf die Funktionen lokaler Ökonomien (Franz 2020: 205) und gelten durch ihre unmittelbare Versorgungs funktion für die Stadtbevölkerung als ein zentraler Versor gungsbereich (Henn/Behling 2020: 12). Durch den voranschreitenden Betrieberückgang im ortsansässigen, inhabergeführten Lebensmittelhandwerk droht ein sukzessiver Verlust der individuellen Nahversor gungsfunktion von Ortskernen und Innenstädten, was auch aus Sicht der Stadtentwicklung problematisch ist (Runst/ Haverkamp 2018). Innerhalb von lokalen Ökonomien scheinen insbesondere inhabergeführte Betrie be, wie die des Lebensmittelhandwerks, eine wichtige Vor aussetzung für die Umsetzung einer nachhaltigen Stadt- und Raumentwicklung zu sein (Jakubowski/Koch 2009: 241). Die empirische Erhebung basiert auf 16 qualitativen Exper teninterviews mit Inhaberinnen und Inhabern ortsansässi ger Lebensmittelhandwerksbetriebe und erfolgte eingebet tet in das Verbundforschungsprojekt KERNiG zur Frage der Governance von kommunalen Ernährungssystemen am Beispiel der zwei süddeutschen Mittelstädte Waldkirch im Breisgau und Leutkirch im Allgäu (Schanz/Pregernig/Baldy et al 2020). Der Beitrag schließt mit einer Diskussion (Kapi tel 5) und einem Resümee der zentralen Ergebnisse (Kapi tel 6)
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