Inter-organizational cooperation: a rehabilitation project based on cooperation between health care and three social service agencies

Nils-Gunnar Rudenstam, Leif Holmberg

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Purpose: Cooperation between organizations is an often-suggested remedy for handling unsolved borderland problems. However, actual projects aiming at cooperation are seldom very successful. The purpose here is to highlight obstacles related to cooperation between different organizations based on a case study of a rehabilitation project where health care and several social service organizations (social insurance, social welfare, and the local employment agency) were involved. Data were gathered through participation and interviews. Findings: It seems that efficient cooperation requires an understanding of the participating organizations’ differences in work logic as well as work practices. Furthermore, only certain fairly standardized “normal” problems may be handled through organized cooperation while non-routine exceptional problem requires a more fully integrated work organization. Implications: Obstacles to cooperation are highlighted and ways to improve the possibilities of cooperation between organizations are suggested although such possibilities are generally hampered by differences in work logic.

OriginalspråkEngelska
Sidor (från-till)342-349
Antal sidor7
TidskriftHealth
Volym6
Nummer5
DOI
StatusPublicerad - 2014

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