Development of interorganisational integration—a vocational rehabilitation project

The project was one of several structural efforts that were launched in Sweden in the 1990s to increase integration between different organisations regarding vocational rehabilitation. The goal was to obtain advantages for both clients and society through coordination of joint resources. To understand the development of interorganisational integration four studies were performed based on data collection from four years. The specific objectives were to analyse: (i) variation in views on long-term goals, (ii) different views on clients, (iii) the perceived barriers to the progress of the project and (iv) to describe and analyse the organising of the project over time. Each of the four objectives was undertaken as a separate study during the research.