The Coordination Challenge

Øverbye, Einar; Smith, Rahel Strohmeier Navarro; Karjalainen, Vappu; Stremlow, Jürgen

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“…The demarcation between what is intra and inter‐organisational is analytical, and a clear distinction can be characterised as “behavioural nonsense” . However, in relation to coordination in public organisations, the state should be seen as a set of organisations . On this basis, health care is understood as a systemic network composed of multiple health organisations…”

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“…Informal IOC is described as both frequent and essential in operational IOC . It functions by either supplementing or by‐passing formal structures, and some scholars have described informal coordination as very effective, even though it is subject to bureaucratic blocking and time constraints . Alexander (1995) associates informal IOC with informal meetings, telephone calls, and shared e‐mails.…”

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Formal and informal inter‐organizational coordination: How nurses adapt in complex pathways

Doessing

2018

Health Planning & Management

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With the coordination of health care services becoming increasingly complex, the challenges of fragmentation cannot be solved by administrative restructuring alone. Attention must also be given to the coordination practices of professional groups, and, in this respect, the nursing profession is a particularly interesting case. Based on a qualitative case study of Danish nurses in hospital, municipality, and general practice, this article addresses the following question: How does the nursing profession practice formal and informal inter-organisational coordination in complex pathways, and what is the interplay between the 2 types of coordination? The findings contribute to our knowledge of coordination at the operative level of health care by identifying specific informal practices in inter-organisational coordination and by showing how informal coordination is activated to support formal coordination in a concurrent organisational and professional ambition of integration. The nurses studied here proved very loyal to formal inter-organisational coordination mechanisms, prioritising them as first choices of action. When formal procedures were found insufficient, however, the nurses temporarily switched to informal coordination. This was triggered by random encounters with fragmentation, a strong professional engagement in making things work in the interest of the patient, and a constant striving to be on top of things. Informal inter-organisational coordination is broken down into supplementary and by-passing practices, and 4 specific by-passing practices are identified. The discussion offers insight into how a lack of agency related to formal inter-organisational coordination can be related to negotiated settlements, and informal coordination is considered in terms of "rule bending" within complex systems.

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Formal and informal inter‐organizational coordination: How nurses adapt in complex pathways

Doessing

2018

Health Planning & Management

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“…During the past decade, a new research tradition on coordination has emerged in the field of social policy research (Christensen et al 2014;Champion and Bonoli 2011;Clasen and Clegg 2011;Zimmerman, Fuertes, and Aurich-Beerheide 2016;Øverbye et al 2010). The emergence of this field of study can be directly related to the increasing presence of, and interest in, coordination of social policy in Europe in general and throughout the European Union in particular (Commission of the European Communities 2000Communities , 2008.…”

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“…Empirical studies in this field have demonstrated that national coordination patterns in social policy are linked to institutional contexts (e.g. Øverbye et al 2010;Clasen and Clegg 2011). System of labour market schemes and adjacent social policy measures (such as social insurance schemes, social services, etc.…”

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“…System of labour market schemes and adjacent social policy measures (such as social insurance schemes, social services, etc. ), as well as the state structure, have baring on the form and extent of coordination ideas that are adopted and implemented (Øverbye et al 2010;and Zimmerman, Fuertes, and Aurich-Beerheide 2016). These studies often compare clusters of countries with emphasis on their diverging welfare state logics and differences in institutional settings 1 of social policy areas.…”

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Coordination patterns and institutional settings: a comparative study of labour market programs for unemployed youth in Sweden and the United Kingdom

Andersson

2020

Policy Studies

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Over the past decades, Europe has seen increasing interest in and pressure to coordinate social policy. Studies on the coordination of social policies have found that institutional settings affect coordination patterns when comparing different welfare state ideal-types. Adding to this body of research, this paper compares two countries with diverging authority to regulate social policy areas; Sweden representing a unitary decentralized state and the UK representing a regionalized state. With labour market programs for youth serving as a case, the purpose of this paper is to compare the development of inter-and intra-policy coordination over a period of 10 years, analysing the impact of regulatory authority. Policy documents which set the regulatory frame of the programs are analysed from the perspectives of instruments, and territorial levels of regulatory authority and how these connect to coordination patterns. The results show that levels of discretion and processes of decentralization and fragmentation of regulatory authority impact on coordination patterns, where inter-and intra-coordination develops under different circumstances. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Social Policy

Bonoli,

Fossati

2023

The Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics

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This chapter presents the historical development of the Swiss welfare state, which in international comparison has long been lagging behind in terms of how generous and encompassing social protection is. This initial delay is mainly due to the strength of the institutional veto points that are present in the country (in particular, federalism and direct democracy). Paradoxically, today, Switzerland is among the most generous welfare states precisely because these veto points prevent the dismantling of the welfare state as is instead systematically taking place in other Western welfare states. It discusses the different developmental stages of the main social policies and illustrates new trends (e.g. social investment). Then, it explores the preferences of the different actors involved in this policy field (parties, unions, employer organizations, etc.) and the resulting conflict lines (economic and cultural) that arise in a modern welfare state. Moreover, the chapter discusses how this policy field is coordinated and which actors play relevant roles. The chapter closes with an overview of new challenges and prospects for welfare state research in Switzerland and embeds the Swiss case in the international literature on welfare research.

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The Coordination Challenge

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Formal and informal inter‐organizational coordination: How nurses adapt in complex pathways

Formal and informal inter‐organizational coordination: How nurses adapt in complex pathways

Coordination patterns and institutional settings: a comparative study of labour market programs for unemployed youth in Sweden and the United Kingdom

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