Boundaries of collaboration – the case of a temporary housing complex for refugees in Sweden

Brorström, Sara; Diedrich, Andreas

doi:10.1080/14719037.2020.1846767

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“…The complexities and consequences of such organising processes for LMIS have only recently received more attention (e.g. Brorström & Diedrich, 2020 ; Diedrich, 2017 ). However, we lack knowledge of how the organising of LMIS for refugees has been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the potential consequences for refugees and organisers of support.…”

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Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic

Bešić

Diedrich

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2021

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This paper addresses the question of how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the labour market integration support (LMIS) organised for refugees in Austria and Sweden, and the potential consequences of the changes unfolding. LMIS for refugees is a complex phenomenon involving actors at different interwoven levels—the macro-national level, the meso-organisational level and the micro-individual level. However, the complexities and consequences of such processes for the labour market integration of refugees have so far received limited attention. The current Covid-19 pandemic actualises the need to gain a better understanding of how integration support is organised across the different levels and how the pandemic itself impacts such support. Thus, the article seeks to understand how the pandemic affects the LMIS organised for refugees in Austria and Sweden, two countries with a large refugee population and diverging responses to the pandemic. Based on 29 semi-structured interviews and three focus group workshops, the results highlight in particular three developments: (a) a further entrenching of broader, macro-national level developments related to integration support already underway prior to the pandemic; (b) further mainstreaming of activities; and (c) increased volatility of work. Overall, the pandemic has brought to the fore the interrelation of different levels in the organising of LMIS for refugees and has contributed to a stabilisation of already ongoing activities.

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“…Research on how support for refugees is organised in practice, involving a plethora of organisations, is limited, with few exceptions (see e.g. Ortlieb et al, 2021 ; Brorström & Diedrich, 2020 ).…”

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Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic

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Diedrich

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2021

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“…In fact, it is increasingly challenging to improve integration with fewer resources. Although innovative methods and new tools could help, a more collaborative approach is needed that draws on public‐private cooperation (Brorström & Diedrich, 2020; Lee & Szkudlarek, 2021).…”

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“…Some focus on refugees' experiences with organisations (Senthanar et al, 2020), while others concentrate on organisations' views on refugees (Diedrich & Styhre, 2008) and the structure of such organisations (Barabasch et al, 2016). Brorström & Diedrich (2020), for example, analyse the tensions and boundaries that occur in collaboration of different organisations involved in LMI in the Swedish context. Research also examines the effects of LMI support, ranging from limited to positive effects over a longer period (see Battisti et al, 2019;Ortlieb, Eggenhofer-Rehart, et al, 2021).…”

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The role and challenges of public service organisations in the labour market integration of refugees: A relational perspective analysing integration measures in Austria, Finland, Germany and Sweden

Bešić

Fóti

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2022

European Management Review

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The need to integrate refugees into the labour markets across the European Union has put public service organisations at the forefront of support provision, but little is known about their role and challenges. This study investigates how these organisations in Austria, Finland, Germany and Sweden organise labour market integration support measures for refugees and the challenges they face in doing so. Using a relational framework, we draw on the understanding that labour market integration occurs at the interplay between the institutional, organisational and individual level. Thematic analysis based on 23 interviews with representatives from public service organisations and their partners revealed challenges across different levels related to specificities of refugees, mental health issues, training and motivation of staff and public‐private cooperation. We show the interrelations of these levels and implications on public service organisations. We propose a holistic approach for labour market integration support, with the organisations at the centre.

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“…Openness is about boundaries and boundary work, and these, according to many, reflect the essence of organizing and structuring organizational life (e.g., Langley et al, 2019;Paulsen and Hernes, 2003;Santos and Eisenhardt, 2005). The organizational literature on boundaries is increasingly moving away from the entitative conception of boundaries as given and stable fixed demarcations of groups and organizations as bounded entities in favor of a processual view that conceives boundaries as continuously socially constructed and interpreted, emergent and dynamic, inherently tension-laden, and centrally constitutive of the ongoing process of organizing (Brorström and Diedrich, 2022;Glimmerveen et al, 2020;Lamont and Molnár, 2002;Langley et al, 2019;Quick and Feldman, 2014;Zietsma and Lawrence, 2010). In the processual view, boundaries can both connect and divide (Quick and Feldman, 2014) and are subject to human agency through boundary work, the "purposeful individual and collective effort to influence boundaries (…); demarcations; and distinctions affecting groups, occupations, and organizations" (Langley et al, 2019, p. 704).…”

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The “open family firm”: openness as boundary work in family enterprises

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“Openness” has become an established norm in the contemporary business environment. However, despite the crucial importance of boundaries and boundary work in organization and management theory, openness—as opening up boundaries of family firms and entrepreneurial families in collaborating with external actors—has received only nascent attention in the family business domain. We introduce the notion of openness in the family business field. Drawing on the organizational boundary and family business literatures, we develop a conceptual framework of family firm openness as boundary work and examine and discuss the drivers, mechanisms, and consequences of openness in family enterprises. Then, drawing on this framework, we set out an agenda for future research that will contribute to a better understanding of openness, boundaries, and boundary work in family firms and entrepreneurial families. We conclude by discussing some contemporary examples of research on the “open family firm.”

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Boundaries of collaboration – the case of a temporary housing complex for refugees in Sweden

Cited by 19 publications

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Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic

Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic

The role and challenges of public service organisations in the labour market integration of refugees: A relational perspective analysing integration measures in Austria, Finland, Germany and Sweden

The “open family firm”: openness as boundary work in family enterprises

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