englischFrom a morphological perspective of analysis, what is social economics in its different organisational and sectoral forms and what are its possible roles in the context of capitalism? The controversial debate about commons is one of the key points of interest in this respect. What is the [...]

englischCorporate cultures are attributed special importance in the context of mergers. This is particularly relevant for cooperative banks in view of an ongoing concentration process at the level of cooperative primary banks. Building on earlier work on this topic, this study reveals initial [...]

englischThis study examines a time period when economic policy at municipal and state level systematically made use of public enterprises. It not only sheds light on the political positions of parties and associations with regard to regulation and the discussions about privatisation, but also [...]

englischThe German healthcare system is organised as an order of collective self-governance in the tradition of neo-corporatism. Part of this, modern mutualism, which is defined as free association, may be on the transformative pathway to erosion. This can be explained, for example, using the new [...]

englischCooperative societies play an extremely important role in the formation of local communities. Not only do they influence the individual structure of organised self-help in democratic self-government, but at the same time they shape the understanding of a community as a civic ‘polis’, a [...]

englischSenior cooperatives are a new kind of self-help organisation, in which community care is practised on the basis of mutual help. Based on the idea of the LETSystem, senior cooperatives use time accounts for all help provided and received. The stability of senior cooperatives relies on [...]

englischThe current demographic and epidemiological change is a challenge for the polity, politics and policy of public social infrastructure (health and nursing care services etc.). The societal answer to the challenge of individual and collective ageing should be a spatial turn in the policy of [...]

englischA considerable number of private investors co-own public companies. However, in comparison there are very few studies which deal with the specific issues related to the management of such mixed economy companies.

The individual contributions in this supplement to the “Zeitschrift für [...]

englischThe state-owned economy includes more than the sum of municipal and government budgets. While it is comparatively simple to define those budgets and their income and expenditure statistically, ‘the public economy’, meaning municipally or governmentally owned industries, operates mostly [...]

englischThis volume is addressed to scientists and practitioners who want to study Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). It includes ten contributions written by authors of different disciplines to enrich the relative scarce scientific German-speaking literature.

The first four papers are concerned [...]