The ‘social provisioning process’ framework postulates that making provisioning processes more socially and ecologically sustainable requires structural changes in terms of the material, social, and cultural bases of economies. This paper explores the ways in which local community-led grassroots initiatives (GIs) contribute to such structural changes. The purpose of this paper is twofold: First, we offer systematic empirical evidence on the impact of GI activities on societal structures, which are crucial for assessing the transformative potential of GIs but have been insufficiently addressed in the literature. Second, we adapt and further develop the ‘social provisioning process’ framework to make it operational for research on local provisioning processes, thereby proposing a strong heterodox economic theory – which accounts for the structural dimension – to the research field of GIs that it was lacking so far. To this end, a qualitative multiple-case study design is employed to investigate three GIs. Eight categories of provisioning structures are identified as an advancement of the ‘social provisioning process’ framework. The data show how the three GI cases build a structural basis in each of the eight categories, which tends to facilitate more sustainable provisioning, and reveal foci, strategies, and limitations in the creation of those structures.

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为经济变革建立地方结构基础？从“社会供应”角度看基层倡议的案例研究


“社会供给过程”框架假设，使供给过程在社会和生态上更具可持续性，需要在经济的物质、社会和文化基础方面进行结构性变革。本文探讨了当地社区主导的基层倡议 （GI） 如何促进此类结构性变化。本文的目的有两个：首先，我们提供了关于 GI 活动对社会结构影响的系统经验证据，这对于评估 GI 的变革潜力至关重要，但在文献中没有得到充分解决。其次，我们调整并进一步发展“社会供给过程”框架，使其可用于地方供给过程的研究，从而为地理标志研究领域提出了一个强大的异端经济理论——解释了结构维度——这是迄今为止所缺乏的。为此，采用定性多案例研究设计来调查 3 个 GI。八类供应结构被确定为“社会供应过程”框架的进步。数据显示了三个 GI 案例如何在八个类别中的每一个类别中构建结构基础，这往往有助于更可持续的供应，并揭示了创建这些结构的重点、策略和限制。