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...