Corporate control in local governance: a casestudy on the municipality of Venlo
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2025-08-08
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This research examines how the corporate food regime influences sustainable food policymaking on a municipal level, with the municipality of Venlo as a case study. Within the theoretic framework of Food Regime Theory and the threefold division of corporate power by Jennifer Clapp five semi-structured interviews were conducted and compared to policy documents. The results show that civil servants have strong sustainable ambitions, but are structurally limited by market dominance, capital mobility and policy discourse that defines sustainability in an economic way. These structural and discursive mechanisms can lead to a gap between policy and practice, where sustainable food projects are often temporary and fragmentized. The research concludes that structural embedding, rethinking spatial policy and empowering short food supply chains are crucial to be able to realise sustainable transitions.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen