Knotting the action net, or organizing between organizations |
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Authors: | Kajsa Lindberg Barbara Czarniawska |
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Institution: | aGRI, School of Business, Economics and Law at Göteborg University, Box 600, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden |
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Abstract: | This paper presents a study of a successful organizing process, namely the knotting together of different types of action by “translating” them into one another. The connections thus established were then stabilized to form a unit that can be designated as an “action net”. This instance of organizing occurred in the course of a project in the Swedish health care sector, with a view to establishing coordination between care units in three separate organizations. Different laws regulated their tasks, their operations were financed by different principals, and the everyday work of their members was undertaken at different point in time and in different places. Despite this, the participants in the studied project were able to establish a lasting net of connections that contributed, in the eyes of the environment, to an instance of “good care”. In this paper we examine in detail the creation of an action net, and offer a tentative theory of organizing in action nets. |
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Keywords: | Action net Organizing Connecting Translation Chain of care |
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