Z'GuG Zeitschrift für Gemeinwirtschaft und Gemeinwohl

Demographic change requires many non-profit organizations to realign their volunteer management. Increasingly, older volunteers are perceived as an important group that needs to be reached and retained. Due to the lack of empirical findings on this...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...