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.
Using the morphological-typological method, this paper provides a well-founded morphological decomposition of cultural cooperatives in Germany and thus addresses a research desideratum of the recent research subject of cultural cooperatives. The...
The aim of this essay is to examine the relationship between the cooperative form and progress. The basis for the realization of this undertaking is a conceptually and historically founded personalistic idea of progress, which can be realized with...
This paper deals with the main features of the construction of a theory of strategic management of progress-capable cooperatives. The starting point of the considerations is the assumption that cooperatives are organizations capable of development...
This essay is a presentation of the academic profile of the Seminar for Cooperative Studies at the University of Cologne. In addition to the cultural-genetic origins, the enduring and intentionally cultivated lines of tradition and the current...
What contributions can be made by community-based, engagement-driven and thematically, but also legally hybrid strategies to stabilize public service tasks in structurally weak rural regions? These questions were addressed in an exploratory project...
This article addresses forms of collaboration for successful (economic) cooperation. The case study of your.company is used to examine how a form of organization characterized by self-organization and participation can make it possible to experience...
The essay outlines the history of the ideology of the common good against the background of ecological and social structures and their temporal dimension. In particular, it shows how in liberal modernity the idea emerged that the common good could...
To achieve the vision of a climate-neutral city, measures in the existing housing stock, which accounts for a considerable share of CO2 emissions, are essential. The subject of the qualitative survey of 16 municipal and non-profit housing...
The design of value networks is crucial for the development of rural areas. If universities act as strategic entrepreneurs, they (supposedly) take on a central role in regional cooperation structures as part of their third mission. The article...