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.
fHealthcare in Germany continues to face the persistent challenge of enhancing its adaptability, developing solutions to pressing care-related problems, and effectively translating these solutions into real-world health service practice. The...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a key driver of the ongoing transformation in healthcare. It can support physicians in making diagnoses and help reduce medical errors. Studies indicate that the correct use of AI enhances the efficiency and...
The theoretical contribution first opens a structural debate for inpatient medical care: How must such institutions be transformed in order to achieve innovative care and quality? The focus here is on large corporate groups as the answer. This is...
The usage of digital health solutions (e.g., fitness apps) plays a significant role in the digital transformation of healthcare and in promoting the common good by encouraging healthier lifestyles, supporting disease prevention, and contributing to...
In the context of the existential challenges of the 21st century, this study explores how approaches that recognize nature as a legal subject and grant it a right to its own sustainability can be grounded in pluralistic-holistic ecosocial...
Social exclusion was the norm for people living in the northern residential area of Trier. It was a stroke of luck that the scientist and activist Heinz Ries, sociologist and psychologist, combined the improvement of living conditions with his...