Organisatoriska mellanrum - En övergripande förklaring till ägarlägenhetens dåliga genomslag?
In year 2009, a new housing form (here referred to as "owned apartments", in Swedish called "ägarlägenheter") was introduced in Sweden. Owned apartments are in many countries the dominating form of housing tenure, but in Stockholm, to where this thesis is delimited, only four have been established in four years. There are many possible reasons for this low establishment, but the thesis writers believe the main reason to be that the owned apartment is situated in an organizational gap. With the hypothesis that the owned apartment is situated in an organizational gap and that there are opportunities to overcome this gap through interorganizational collaboration of the players on the market, this thesis strives towards examining if this is the case.By using Burt's theory of structural holes the concept of organizational gaps are elaborated to fit this context, since this area is previously unexplored.The data has mainly been gathered through in-depth interviews but also through secondary sources such as previous theses and newspaper articles. It has appeared that the majority of the central players are characterized by conservatism. Furthermore, the actors have split into two groups: those believing the responsibility of the owned apartment belongs to the Swedish government, as they set the conditions with the legislation, and those believing thisresponsibility belongs to the construction companies, as they are the ones actually able to construct the owned apartments. The data also say that some players have collaborated interorganizationally on owned apartments and that there is reason to believe this interorganizational collaboration will occur in the future as well.The analyze states that the owned apartment is situated in an organizational gap, which is mainly due to the Swedish government and the construction companies believing the responsibility to be each other's. A way for the owned apartment to escape the organizational gap would be through inter-organizational collaboration, but there are three obstacles for this: the knowledge of the owned apartment is generally low for the Swedish players; the players are conservative; the players have little incentives to collaborate inter-organizationally. It is unlikely that a third party can exploit the organizational gap. The best opportunity for the owned apartment to escape the organizational gap is that the Swedish government implements a legislative change which increases its demand. It is difficult to tell if this legislative change will occur or not, but it will at least not occur within the next coming years, which means the owned apartment will linger in the organizational gap for at least a few more years.The study confirms the hypothesis that the owned apartment is situated in an organizational gap and falsifies the hypothesis that there are opportunities to overcome this gap through inter-organizational collaboration of the players on the market.