Deciding and organizing socially in the social economy

This article in the magazine "Gruppe. Interaktion. Organization. (GIO)" deals with the welfare mix of community, welfare state and market with their contradicting principles of regulation in the social economy. In the context of the interrelation between solidarity, welfare state and economic regulation, the actors often favor situations of uncertainty, ambiguity, insecurity and ambivalence as well less suitable coping strategies, such as defensive avoidance behavior and dysfunctional organizational cultures. In this context, the organizations and care workers are confronted with the challenge of overcoming complexity and associated uncertainty and to avoid unproductive complexity reductions, like moralizing conflation and simplification. It is important to cope and balance adequately with the contradictory dynamics of this field of action.