work practices before, during and after the financial crisis.
As the table illustrates, controls and work practices differed
across the three periods studied. Our case study findings
suggest that social and self controls were important
means of control, and ones which impacted on intra- and
inter-organisational work practices, alongside the administrative
controls normally discussed in previous research
(see for example, Mouritsen et al., 2001; Cuganesan and
Lee, 2006). We have also demonstrated that the internal
financial situation of the home help unit is vital for
the analysis of the interdependencies of intra- and interorganisational
controls and their impact on work practices.
Previous literature has not emphasised the importance of
the internal financial situation of the cooperative parties
(Håkansson and Lind, 2004; Coad and Cullen, 2006; Thrane
and Hald, 2006). In the following we elaborate on the findings.