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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...

Organizational resilience scales have been adapted to the hospital context. To prepare for high consequence infectious diseases (HCID), the Long Hospital Resilience Scale (L-HRS; N=48) was tested in two German hospitals in 2019 and the Short...

The existing knowledge about the role of leaders in planned change within healthcare organizations is insufficient. Additionally, there is a lack of understanding regarding their contribution to organizational resilience. Therefore, the study aims...

Current challenges are jeopardising the centuries-long stability of Benedictine monasteries, whose resilience is now being put to the test. The lack of young people, the aging of the convents, decrease in the returns on the substance economy as well...

This paper analyses the inclusion of all three pillars of sustainability in planning decisions for home care (HC) services, focusing on HC Routing and Scheduling Problems (HCRSP). Mobility concepts used by HC staff play a vital role in routing...

Nonprofit-organizations (NPO) often play an important role in overcoming crises, so that their ability to resist, cope and learn is highly relevant to society. However, there is still a need for research on the resilience of these mission-oriented...

This study explores scientific evidence on the repercussions of Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) funding, a large-scale public healthcare intervention implemented in Austria's public hospital inpatient sector in the late 1990s. We investigate past and...

Care for the elderly at home is an issue of common welfare. The public sector must adapt the existing working conditions of caregivers to cover the increasing demand with decreasing resources. As proven for Austria as an example, this means from the...

By means of the morphological paradigm of the analysis of economic social entities, the public economy of the third sector can be fruitfully opened up within the framework of a comprehensive dynamic geometry of a multi-sectoral system analysis. This...

The literature on analyzing organizations has devoted more to positive than failed cases. Nevertheless, the "dark side" represents one of the constituent elements of everyday organizational practices. Given these considerations, the paper focuses on...

The Declaration of Alma Ata (1978) stipulated “Primary Health Care” (PHC) as the fundamental paradigm of health care systems world-wide. PHC is primarily based on community based health care (CBHC) with a high degree of participation of all...

Sustainability has become an important concept in the banking sector in recent years. Against this background, the paper deals with the integration of the idea of sustainability into the business model of a Catholic church bank - Pax-Bank eG. In...