Contextualizing Community Economic Development

Contextualizing agile software development

This paper presents a contextual model for software-intensive systems development to guide the adoption and adaptation of agile software development practices. This model was found especially useful when the project context departs significantly from the “agile sweet spot”, i.e., the ideal conditions in which agile software development practices originated from, and where they are most likely t...

Community Economic Development and Community Change

A main operating assumption of Community Change Initiatives (CCIs) is that communities in general, and community-based organizations in particular, can improve economic opportunities and outcomes in their communities through community economic development.1 It is hoped that by stimulating business activity in the local neighborhood, community economic development programs can enhance the qualit...

Society, Community and Economic Development

Studies of economic development and economic history have long been concerned with the relationship between the transparent and supposedly anonymous forces of markets, states and bureaucracies, on the one hand, and the particular local and national forms of social organization in which actors' daily lives are embedded. Economists are quite divided about these latter forces: for some, they are n...

COLLECTIVITY AND CHANGE: INDIGENOUS WOMEN, COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE WESTERN HIGHLANDS OF GUATEMALA Contextualizing the Women in Development and Gender and Development Paradigms

Reinventing Community Networks as Economic Development Solutions

iSChannel is an excellent student initiative that spotlights the academic work of members of the LSE-IS community. The editors have worked hard to prepare the inaugural issue, and its quality demonstrates the high-level of academic work to be found among IS students at the London School of Economics. It is important to raise the visibility of student work not only to understand IS issues more f...