Discretion, governance and cooperative learning : Swedish rehabilitation professionals’ experiences of financial cooperation

• Purpose: This article analyses the experiences of Swedish rehabilitation professionals in interorganizational cooperation in return-to-work and labour marker reintegration. Method: Two groups (n=15) from different organizations met recurrently to discuss their practice from a cooperation perspective. The participants had experience of cooperation in the organizational setting of Coordination Associations (CAs). The groups worked with a tutor according to a problem-based methodology to discuss how their practice is influenced by new structures for cooperation. The material was analysed inductively using qualitative content analysis. Results: The results show that CAs were successful in creating cooperative work forms at a local level by ensuring financial support for interorganizational work. This experience was considered positive by the participants. However, the different developments in the two CAs (one attained a sustainable cooperation, the other did not) show the importance of local strategies for maintaining the positive effects of cooperation. Conclusions: Work forms initiated by Coordination Associations have been perceived and used as learning environments in which the participants use the learning opportunities provided by the formal cooperation structures. However, the level of trust between managers and officials is low, implying that officials have limited support to learn from their cooperation.

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