Interorganisationale Kooperation im Feld beruflicher Nachqualifizierung als Resultat struktureller Kopplung von Organisationen

Inter-organizational cooperation is understood as a possibility to react on the needs of low skilled adults through the conception of adequate offers. The conception and implementation of new second chance qualification offers that provide a vocational qualification for adults does not only require organizations in the educational system. Also further partners are needed to combine different services across system boundaries that correspond to the educational and to the economic system. The systems theory approach is outlined to use the term of structural coupling for a theoretical support to describe cross-system cooperation. Against this background an exemplary interview passage illustrates a cooperative relationship of organizational representatives belonging to the educational and to the economic system to demonstrate the problemsolving potential of inter-organizational cooperation.