A Matter of Trust? A Study of Coordination of Swedish Stakeholders in Return-to-Work

Remaining in Workforce – Employment Barriers for People with Disabilities in a Swedish Context

“…Research in Sweden has shown that the social insurance offices and employment agencies have difficulties cooperating and also have different goals (Eriksson et al 2008). Ståhl et al (2009Ståhl et al ( , 2010 found that collaboration between stakeholders in the return-to-work process was obstructed by divergent perspectives on the cooperative work, which can be a result of institutional preferences and self interest or, as reported in the our study, when welfare authorities have different foci and goals. Laws aiming to protect the right of people with disabilities to employment and equal participation will be ineffective if they are not coordinated and if collaborations between stakeholders do not function.…”

Implementing Interorganizational Cooperation in Labour Market Reintegration: A Case Study

“…Earlier studies of CAs or similar interorganizational cooperation attempts has demonstrated how organizational self-interest and low trust complicate cooperation [9][10][11], and a recent study concluded that the outcomes of such initiatives tend to focus on specific cooperation projects with limited influence on the participating organizations, since they tend to focus on top-down approaches rather than horizontal integration [26]. In the present study, it is suggested that CA 2 was more successful in creating a horizontal approach to interorganizational cooperation by not 25 being limited to a number of project-based work forms; instead, in this local context the CA was established as a sustainable cooperation structure.…”

“…While this differentiation may be considered a way to manage a complex environment [7], there is a risk that responsibility becomes fragmented, which may imply efficiency and quality problems [8]. Further, in attempts at interorganizational cooperation or integration in the rehabilitation field, organizational self-interest and low trust have been shown to threaten the development and sustainability of the cooperative initiatives [9][10][11][12].…”

“…Several studies has highlighted both the necessity of and the difficulties in engaging multiple actors in work disability prevention [3,4,[10][11][12]24]. For legislation on interorganizational cooperation to be successful in engaging the participating actors, sensitivity to each organization's perspective is necessary [4,25], which suggests that such legislation need to be written and interpreted in a way that allow a flexible adaptation to the local context.…”

From Cooperation to Conflict? Swedish Rehabilitation Professionals’ Experiences of Interorganizational Cooperation

“…Interorganizational cooperation in rehabilitation and return-to-work has gained increasing attention in the last decade [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8], and a research agenda towards improving cooperation and communication between return-to-work actors has been suggested [9]. Research on cooperation in rehabilitation and return-to-work has focused on disability managers and return-to-work coordinators as facilitators or intermediaries between actors [10][11][12], but politically driven attempts toward structural or interorganizational interventions have received less attention.…”