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.
The parametric healthcare reforms in Germany, especially those of a performance law nature in relation to a cultural change of the modes of governance, are not able to bring about the necessary system transformation in the healthcare system. In the...
The concept of Doing Commoning is gaining increasing relevance in the current debate on commons. It has become evident that commons cannot be taken for granted but must be actively created and continually maintained through collective action. Yet, a...
The article is a literature analysis and literature discussion on the measurement of social capital in the context of network research. On the one hand, the lack of research consensus becomes clear, but on the other hand, the confusing field can...
Through the enactment of the Federal Participation Act (Bundesteilhabegesetz or BTHG) for people with a disability, the German federal government has implemented a comprehensive legislative reform in the field of integration assistance...
This article presents the empirical results of a qualitative case study on the founding process of the Cologne-based techno cooperative krakelee eG. An important driver for the successful establishment of the cooperative was the shared vision of...
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive requires many large municipal utilities to perform a mandatory double materiality analysis. The associated European Sustainability Reporting Standards have massively expanded the scope of...
In the last 25 years, the number of people receiving long-term care insurance benefits has more than tripled from just over 1.8 million to around 5.7 million in 2023. During this period, the total expenditure of social long-term care insurance (SPV)...
Transparency and accountability are requested from social economic organizations to prove their reliable and economic use of public resources. In a non-biased, non-reactive approach a defined group of social economic organizations was examined to...