Samarbejde via social kapital og relationel koordinering - hvem trækker det længste strå?

The article focuses on how social capital, as a sociological concept, is transformed to an organizational concept and integrated in management concepts which change the meaning of the concept. The article relates critically to two management concepts: Workplace social capital and relational coordination and shows, through an analysis within the hospital sector, how the concepts contribute to legitimate a management practice and power relations far from the original meaning of the concepts. This creates great challenges to meet the expectations promised in the concepts, namely to ensure compliance between productivity, quality and human well-being.