Z'GuG Zeitschrift für Gemeinwirtschaft und Gemeinwohl

Corruption undermines health systems and public welfare. Yet evidence on remedies remains fragmented. This review synthesises 38 studies (2013–2022) and identifies 168 initiatives across seven corruption types. Legal and transparency initiatives...

As a social movement, the “Last Generation” fought for a more decisive climate protection policy from 2021 to 2025, using the means of civil disobedience, in particular street blockades. However, although climate protection is supported by the...

This article examines the state of research on sustainability reporting by healthcare organizations based on a systematic literature review. Neo-institutionalism serves as the theoretical framework, in particular the three-phase model according to...

How can the innovativeness of social innovations be critically measured in the context of aging, intergenerational relationships, and democratic culture? In this regard, the article explains index constructs in the context of generative social space...

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive establishes a mandatory double materiality analysis for many large state-owned hospitals to identify high-priority material topics in all three ESG (environmental, social, and governance) dimensions....

This article provides an overview of the current doctrine of the Cologne morphological school of cooperative forms on the questions of whether cooperatives are a suitable form for public welfare tasks and what public welfare and transformative...

Following the Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth and the Green Deal, European companies have been confronted with expanded obligations for sustainability reporting. These reporting obligations largely stem from the Corporate Sustainability...

In 1995, social long-term care insurance was introduced in Germany as the fifth pillar of the social insurance system, thus recognizing the need for long-term care as a general life risk. The concept of German long-term care insurance is based on...

This article interprets community-supported agriculture as a paradigmatic example of post-functional economic activity. The concept of agrosophia encapsulates a practice in which agriculture is seen not merely as a form of production, but as an...

Given the often intense competition for resources and the advancing digitalization, event-driven fundraising is becoming increasingly important for many nonprofit organizations (NPO). This source of income is characterized by its connection to...

The study examines the role of cooperating food banks for social non-profit organisations (NPOs), using the example of “Die Tafel Österreich”. This is analysed in the context of the fulfilment of the social functions of NPOs in the welfare...

Digital platforms are generally of paramount importance for the changing provision of public services. However, research has so far paid little attention to differentiation based on spatial structural characteristics. This article examines the role...

The internet provides a fast, inexpensive way for nonprofit organizations to present accountability efforts. This article explores how nonprofit organizations in Austria disclose financial and operational information on their websites. Through...

The paper aims to present research conducted on the sidelines of the Award in memory of Agitu Gudeta, a sociologist and shepherdess of Ethiopian origin who inhabited and transformed the Mocheni Valley in Trentino. Over the course of three editions...

This article examines the legal personhood of nature as a lever for an ecologically embedded property and economic culture. It asks whether such recognition transforms capitalism or signals its end. Drawing on the embeddedness debate, it shows how...

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 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...

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 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...

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...