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.
Digital forms of basic services are required in order to reduce existing supply deficits in rural areas and to ensure equivalent living conditions. Almost half of the rural population lacks local supplies in walking distance. Since 2019, smart 24/7...
Comprehensive citizen participation poses challenges for municipalities in rural areas. Reasons for this can include a lack of time to participate or the fact that analog participation formats are too far away. One way to facilitate the...
Telemedicine solutions promise a wide range of opportunities to minimise deficits and bottlenecks in rural healthcare by, for example, overcoming distances, saving journeys and deploying scarce human resources in a targeted manner. Based on 27...
More and more rural German regions struggle with ensuring close to home outpatient medical care. The traditional instruments of the responsible players are reaching their limits and supplementary municipal initiatives are proving to be only...
Value creation is a goal that is pursued across all areas of society and all economic sectors and often the result of innovation processes, in which certain individuals are recognised as key figures, central drivers or even determinants of success....
People value a life in hosthood. The term chosen in this proposition elevates social and economic affairs in an ecological mode. In translation of the German term Wirtlichkeit, hosthood signifies the quality of a state of being. It arises from a...
Social economy organizations increasingly deal with (post-)agile organization models in order to meet the current challenges. Starting with a definition of the term and a classification in terms of organizational theory, the characteristics,...
Due to their social relevance, environmental and social issues are increasingly the focus of corporate reporting by private companies. Both aspects are also of great importance for public hospitals because of their activities in the health sector as...