Z'GuG Zeitschrift für Gemeinwirtschaft und Gemeinwohl

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...