»Morphology and Metamorphosis of the Third Sector. The Future of the Entelechy of the Social Welfare Economy in the Context of Economic Organizational Law«: The social welfare econonomy of public, private and cooperative organizations - coded by the cultural grammar of non-for-profit-logic - is (full of tenssion and conflicts) embedded in the competitive market order - coded by the religious spirit of capitalism - organized by the state as an guarantor. What will be the future of this configuration? Is it possible that a new transformative law will be able to promote (as a radical empowerment) the metamorphosis to a dynamic entelechy of social welfare economy?

Philipp Thimm is doing his doctorate and research as a fellow at the Seminar for Cooperative Studies at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne. His research focuses on the morphology and typology of cooperative business models. Furthermore, he deals with their innovation, sustainability and hybrid functional logic. He also deals with issues of the third sector and public economics.