Paper delivered at Critical Management Studies (CMS) Conference 2017, Liverpool

Stream: An eternal crisis in health and Social Management-Time for a Revolution?

Title: Multi-professional and inter-organizational collaboration: Barriers to collaboration in health and social care

Abstract

Inter-organisational and multi-professional collaboration is widely accepted as an important approach for addressing significant social issues, such as the pressures currently being placed on the health and care system due to an ageing population (Oliver et al., 2014). This paper seeks to identify some of the factors that inhibit collaborative working and thereby develop a better understanding of why ‘the partnership agenda is problematic’ (Pate, 2010, 200). This paper seeks to build on previous work with a particular focus on the structural factors and “the interchange between agents and contexts” (Pettigrew 1997, 339). In the case of health and social care it will be argued that inter-organizational and multi-professional collaboration are inhibited by deeply institutionalised social structures and forces that are essentially anti-collaborative in nature.

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