Transnational Social Support

4    Development Cooperation as aField of Transnational Learning¹

Kay E. Ehlers and Stephan Wolff

LEARNING IN INSTITUTIONAL SECTORS

The perpetuation of interorganisational learning depends on the shared learning interests of cooperation partners on one hand, and on interorganisational learning barriers on the other. Learning in and from complex institutional arrangements cannot be regarded—or only to a very limited extent—as the consequence of the efforts and successes of the participating actors. The systematic reference to the deep structures and process rules of the organisations involved is therefore essential for the theoretical reconstruction and the empirical research of learning. The conditions and possibilities of organisational and ...