Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore the roles of work integration social enterprises (WISEs) in the Swedish establishment programme for newly arrived refugees, and how its set-up affects WISEs preconditions for social innovation.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper builds on a longitudinal and qualitative action research study of a WISE and its work in organising a course for labour market integration, in the context of the Swedish establishment programme. The authors were actively involved in the study as embedded researchers.

Findings

The exploration identifies a number of roles that WISEs take on in the establishment programme. It illustrates how WISEs hybrid character places participants at the centre of the innovation process, where their opinions and knowledge are considered crucial, and how this positively affects their ability to gain skills and confidence. However, the study also makes visible how issues of coordination between stakeholders in the programme lead to mismatches between course content and participant profiles, colliding activities and sporadic participation. In short, the bureaucracy embedded in labour market integration systems erodes the preconditions of WISEs to foster social innovation.

Originality/value

The embeddedness of the authors provides in-depth knowledge regarding how complex state systems affect WISEs in practice. Importantly, it also gives insights into the experiences of refugees, a group that is often mentioned in the literature on WISEs, although mainly in passing.

中文翻译：

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社会企业在瑞典劳动力市场整合计划中的作用——社会创新的机遇与挑战

目的

本文的目的是探讨工作整合社会企业 (WISE) 在瑞典新抵达难民建立计划中的作用，以及其建立如何影响 WISE 社会创新的先决条件。

设计/方法/方法

本文建立在对 WISE 的纵向和定性行动研究及其在瑞典建立计划的背景下组织劳动力市场一体化课程的工作的基础上。作者作为嵌入式研究人员积极参与了这项研究。

发现

探索确定了 WISE 在建立计划中扮演的一些角色。它说明了 WISE 的混合性格如何将参与者置于创新过程的中心，他们的意见和知识被认为是至关重要的，以及这如何积极影响他们获得技能和信心的能力。然而，该研究还揭示了项目中利益相关者之间的协调问题如何导致课程内容与参与者简介、冲突活动和零星参与之间的不匹配。简而言之，劳动力市场整合系统中的官僚主义侵蚀了 WISE 促进社会创新的先决条件。

原创性/价值

作者的嵌入性提供了关于复杂状态系统如何在实践中影响 WISE 的深入知识。重要的是，它还提供了对难民经历的见解，这个群体在 WISE 的文献中经常被提及，尽管主要是顺便提一下。