The Zeitschrift für Gemeinwirtschaft und Gemeinwohl (Z'GuG) is an interdisciplinary academic journal with relevance for professional practice (business, politics, civil society). The journal is published as a new series of the Zeitschrift für öffentliche und gemeinwirtschaftliche Unternehmen (ZögU) - Journal for Public and Nonprofit Services. The thematic focus is on public economics in its diversity of sponsors, administrative theory, the social economy, the third sector, cooperatives, as well as topics of importance to civil society such as communalization, neighborhood and district concepts, network development, and social space building. The Z'GuG is open to fundamental theoretical and methodological discussions and takes up topics that require a cultural-scientific, but also philosophical opening, including the social (medical, nursing, educational, etc.) care debates, gender and other diversity controversies, commons theory, and gift and reciprocity research. From these openings, Z'GuG is dedicated to the meta-theme of the common good.
This study explores scientific evidence on the repercussions of Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) funding, a large-scale public healthcare intervention implemented in Austria's public hospital inpatient sector in the late 1990s. We investigate past and...
The literature on analyzing organizations has devoted more to positive than failed cases. Nevertheless, the "dark side" represents one of the constituent elements of everyday organizational practices. Given these considerations, the paper focuses on...
The Declaration of Alma Ata (1978) stipulated “Primary Health Care” (PHC) as the fundamental paradigm of health care systems world-wide. PHC is primarily based on community based health care (CBHC) with a high degree of participation of all...
Care for the elderly at home is an issue of common welfare. The public sector must adapt the existing working conditions of caregivers to cover the increasing demand with decreasing resources. As proven for Austria as an example, this means from the...
Sustainability has become an important concept in the banking sector in recent years. Against this background, the paper deals with the integration of the idea of sustainability into the business model of a Catholic church bank - Pax-Bank eG. In...
By means of the morphological paradigm of the analysis of economic social entities, the public economy of the third sector can be fruitfully opened up within the framework of a comprehensive dynamic geometry of a multi-sectoral system analysis. This...