Between teams or individuals with specific objectives, work is coordinated through cooperation.
Within this framework, each party has specific expectations which are added to the objectives of cooperation, and which must result from working together.
To take the example of the team of electricians, let's add a team of plumbers. Together, these two teams aim to complete the fitting-out of an office space. So they have a common interest. But for all that, no plumber will be pulling electrical cables or reconnecting sockets. Each team has its own tasks and responsibilities.
It's not that they don't want to help each other, but it would be malpractice to carry out someone else's work without having the competence and legitimacy to do so.
The cooperative mode is also found in the coordination of work between several departments. Having worked extensively in the IT field, the most obvious example is the creation of a new website for a company. The business department and the IT department both have the ambition of creating this new website. On the other hand, the specific ambition of the business department is to develop sales, and that of the IT department is to install more efficient servers. During the project, it will be essential to clearly identify this difference, as it will be the source of numerous debates that will shift the strategic balance of the project to one team or the other. Similarly, IT teams are unlikely to take kindly to comments on choices linked to their expertise, just as comments from the IT team on business strategies tend to create a certain unease.
Cooperation has its advantages and disadvantages. You just have to know how to apply the rules wisely.