Z'GuG Zeitschrift für Gemeinwirtschaft und Gemeinwohl

“Current issues in cooperative practice” was the title of a presentation by the first author at the 1st Cooperative Law Day on June 7, 2024 in Halle (Saale). The following remarks highlight current questions and answers from cooperative practice...

Cooperative may be used by local governments to organize sustainable participation of citizens in the field of services of general interest. There are different governance models how to organize such a cooperation. The article discusses the...

The German Registered Cooperative („eingetragene Genossenschaft“, eG) is dedicated through their specific legal form to the purpose of promoting its members specifically as customers on a user-related basis. Consequently the eG has to be...

Cooperatives do not appear to be able to pursue public welfare interests because they are dedicated through their specific legal form to the purpose of promoting their members. However, the principles of cooperatives even appear to be particularly...

The objective of this article is to demonstrate, through the use of housing cooperatives as a case study, that municipalities have the capacity and obligation to facilitate the provision of secure and affordable housing by prioritising the...

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,...