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Work is changing. Speed and flexibility are more in demand than ever before thanks to an accelerating knowledge economy and sophisticated communication networks. These changes have forced a mass rethinking of the way we coordinate, collaborate, and communicate. Instead of projects coming to established teams, teams are increasingly converging around projects. These "all-edge adhocracies" are highly collaborative and mostly temporary, their edge coming from the ability to form links both inside and outside an organization. These nimble groups come together around a specific task, recruiting personnel, assigning roles, and establishing objectives. When the work is done they disband their members and take their skills to the next project. Spinuzzi offers for the first time a comprehensive framework for understanding how these new groups function and thrive. His rigorous analysis tackles both the pros and cons of this evolving workflow and is based in case studies of real all-edge adhocracies at work. His provocative results will challenge our long-held assumptions about how we should be doing work.

Business networks. --- Knowledge economy. --- Business enterprises --- Business communication. --- Technological innovations. --- workplace, work, networks, rhetoric, rhetorical, writing, working, knowledge economy, communication network, coordination, collaboration, communicating, organization, recruitment, objectives, business, technology, technological, innovation, adhocracies, management, coworking, search engine optimization, hierarchy, integration.

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This report presents the findings of an assessment of Tanzania's workforce development (WfD) system based on the World Bank's systems approach for better education results (SABER) WfD systems benchmarking tool. The focus is on policies, institutions, and practices in three important system dimensions: strategic framework, system oversight, and service delivery. By systematically benchmarking the state of policies and practices across these three dimensions, this report aims to inform dialogue on important WfD system reforms by situating current policies and institutional performance against global good practices.

Economics of Education --- Education --- Education Finance --- Education For All --- Education for the Knowledge Economy --- Labor Market --- Skills Development and Labor Force Training --- Social Protections and Labor --- Vocational & Technical Education

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Governments around the world assign top priority to job creation and productivity growth. Developing the right skills among potential and actual workers not only makes capital and labor more productive, it also makes the adoption and invention of new technologies possible. Recent research also indicates that skill acquisition has a long-lasting impact on the trajectory of a person's life and that inequality in skills is associated with inequality in income. Moreover, the proportion of non-agricultural low-earning jobs is high in Armenia. Low-earning jobs are defined as those that earn less than two-thirds of the median wage. By this criterion, one in four jobs in Armenia falls into this category, which represents a significantly higher share than that in most European countries, where the incidence of low pay is within the 15-20 percent range. The significant presence of informality in non-agricultural sectors is another factor that contributes to the low-productivity and low-earnings employment. To better understand skill shortages in Armenia, this report looks into the current demand for skills from the labor market, together with the landscape of skills formation and utilization in the country, using the newly available data from the World Bank's Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP) household and employer surveys, which were undertaken in the country between 2012 and 2013. These extensive surveys sampled Armenia's urban population and firms. Based on these surveys, this report aims to provide a key diagnosis of skills demand and supply issues in Armenia, highlighting a few initial steps that need to be taken to build a highly productive Armenian labor force, one that can contribute to as well as benefit from the accelerated economic growth.

Early Childhood Education --- Education --- Education For All --- Education For the Knowledge Economy --- Human Development --- Improving Labor Markets --- Knowledge for Development --- Labor Market --- Labor Markets --- Labor Mobility --- Skilled Workers --- Skills Development and Labor Force Training --- Social Protection and Risk Management --- Social Protections and Labor

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This book presents the first multidimensional investigation of KIE in the context of low-tech industries and gives insights in paradox conditions and specific mechanisms, using the example of the German textile industry. Therefore, the author solves conceptual inconsistencies and develops an alternative framework referring to systemic concepts of sectoral innovation systems and KIE as well as to the concept of institutional entrepreneurs. As a result, the deviation of willful actors from a restricting institutional environment and sources of entrepreneurial opportunities can be investigated more comprehensively.  Contents • The Sectoral Innovation System of the German Textile Industry • The German Textile Industry as an Example The Emergence of Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship in Low-Tech Industries Target Groups • Students and lecturers of economic sociology and economics • Decision makers in industrial policies and economic promotion  The Author During her PhD, Isabel Schwinge researched and lectured at the Chair of Economic and Industrial Sociology, TU Dortmund University.

Social Sciences. --- Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology. --- Political Economy. --- Knowledge - Discourse. --- Social sciences. --- Sciences sociales --- Entrepreneurship -- Germany. --- Knowledge management. --- Textitle industry -- Technological innovations -- Germany. --- Textile industry --- Knowledge economy --- Entrepreneurship --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Social Change --- Technological innovations --- Textitle industry --- Management of knowledge assets --- Political economy. --- Economic sociology. --- Sociology. --- Management --- Information technology --- Intellectual capital --- Organizational learning --- International Political Economy. --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Social theory --- Economic sociology --- Economics --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociology --- Social aspects

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Since we introduced the term "middle-income trap" in 2006, it has become popular among policy makers and researchers. In May 2015, a search of Google Scholar returned more than 3,000 articles including the term and about 300 articles with the term in the title. This paper provides a (non-exhaustive) survey of this literature. The paper then discusses what, in retrospect, we missed when we coined the term. Today, based on developments in East Asia, Latin America, and Central Europe during the past decade, we would have paid more attention to demographic factors, entrepreneurship, and external institutional anchors. We would also make it clearer that to us, the term was as much the absence of a satisfactory theory that could inform development policy in middle-income economies as the articulation of a development phenomenon. Three-quarters of the people in the world now live in middle-income economies, but economists have yet to provide a reliable theory of growth to help policy makers navigate the transition from middle- to high-income status. Hybrids of the Solow-Swan and Lucas-Romer models are not unhelpful, but they are poor substitutes for a well-constructed growth framework.

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