The Developers Dilemma

Author : Casey O'Donnell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262028190
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developer's Dilemma written by Casey O'Donnell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of work—including the organization of work and the market forces that surround it—through the lens of the collaborative practice of game development. Rank-and-file game developers bring videogames from concept to product, and yet their work is almost invisible, hidden behind the famous names of publishers, executives, or console manufacturers. In this book, Casey O’Donnell examines the creative collaborative practice of typical game developers. His investigation of why game developers work the way they do sheds light on our understanding of work, the organization of work, and the market forces that shape (and are shaped by) media industries. O’Donnell shows that the ability to play with the underlying systems—technical, conceptual, and social—is at the core of creative and collaborative practice, which is central to the New Economy. When access to underlying systems is undermined, so too is creative collaborative process. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in game studios in the United States and India, O’Donnell stakes out new territory empirically, conceptually, and methodologically. Mimicking the structure of videogames, the book is divided into worlds, within which are levels; and each world ends with a boss fight, a “rant” about lessons learned and tools mastered. O’Donnell describes the process of videogame development from pre-production through production, considering such aspects as experimental systems, “socially mandatory” overtime, and the perpetual startup machine that exhausts young, initially enthusiastic workers. He links work practice to broader systems of publishing, manufacturing, and distribution; introduces the concept of a privileged “actor-intra-internetwork”; and describes patent and copyright enforcement by industry and the state.

Author : Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192667564
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Developer's Dilemma written by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Developing countries seek economic development which is broad-based or inclusive in the sense that it raises the income of all, especially the poor. Yet this is at odds with Simon Kuznets' hypothesis that economic development tends to put upward pressure on income inequality, at least initially and in the absence of countervailing policies. The Developer's Dilemma explores this 'Kuznetsian tension' between structural transformation and income inequality. The book asks: what are the varieties of structural transformation that have been experienced in developing countries? What inequality dynamics are associated with each variety of structural transformation? And what policies have been utilized to manage trade-offs between structural transformation, income inequality, and inclusive growth? Across nine country cases written by academics across the Global South, this book answers these questions using a comparative case study approach with a common analytical framework and a set of common datasets. The intended intellectual contribution of the book is to provide a comparative analysis of the relationship between structural transformation, income inequality, and inclusive growth; to do so empirically at a regional and national level, and to draw conclusions about the varieties of structural transformation, their inequality dynamics, and the policies that have been employed to mediate the developer's dilemma.

Author : Robert H. Bates
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691167354
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development Dilemma written by Robert H. Bates and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- The fundamental tension -- Taming the hierarchy -- Forging the political terrain -- The developing world: two examples -- The use of power -- Conclusion

Author : Armida S. Alisjahbana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789292567927
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Developer's Dilemma written by Armida S. Alisjahbana and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper discusses the 'developer's dilemma' - a tension emerging from the fact that developing countries are simultaneously seeking structural transformation and broad-based growth to raise incomes of the poor. Simon Kuznets originally hypothesized that structural transformation may have a tendency - in the absence of policy intervention - to put upward pressure on income inequality. However, broad-based economic growth requires steady or even falling income inequality to maximize the growth of incomes at the lower end of the distribution. The purpose of our paper is: (i) to revisit the seminal Kuznets paper in order to understand how Kuznets understood the structural transformation and income inequality relationship precisely; (ii) to discuss the empirical experience of the developing world in terms of structural transformation and, in doing so, to outline a typology of 'varieties' of structural transformation; and (iii) to discuss the structural transformation-inequality relationship and how it may differ under different patterns of structural transformation.

Author : S. Parasuraman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349272485
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development Dilemma written by S. Parasuraman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social, economic and political contexts in which development projects in India are implemented, and consequences to people displaced by such projects, are analyzed in this book. Development, displacement, resettlement and rehabilitation processes related to three major reservoir bases' irrigation and power projects, and three major industrial projects are studied. The role of the State, international agencies and the private industrial sector in promoting development and managing rehabilitation of the displaced people is assessed, and the author proposes a framework for a comprehensive policy on development, displacement and rehabilitation.

Author : Roger Gutbrod
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642272363
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Software Dilemma written by Roger Gutbrod and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complexity of software is continuously growing as a result of today’s interconnected business processes. Governance of architecture and technology strategy helps to ensure coherence of software and avoid excessive complexity. At the same time software development needs room for creativity and empowerment to provide solutions to business problems of increasing complexity. The book looks at this software dilemma from the perspectives of CIOs/CTOs, software architects, and auditors. Each of these groups has different interests which need to be considered, reconciled, and balanced. CIOs/CTOs are provided with the boundary conditions they have to establish assuring the achievement of strategic objectives. Architects and auditors find proven concepts for effectively assessing software projects and architectures, as well as for effectively communicating identified issues to responsible persons. The book is based on the author’s long experience in software engineering, governance, and auditing.

Author : Casey O'Donnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780262322836
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developer's Dilemma written by Casey O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Noam Wasserman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691158304
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Founder's Dilemmas written by Noam Wasserman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Founder's Dilemmas examines how early decisions by entrepreneurs can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, including quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders as well as inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them.

Author : Martin Prowse
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030339858
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa written by Martin Prowse and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader through the expansion, restructuring and possible salvation of Malawi’s main industry, tobacco. Malawi has been dependent on tobacco exports for a century, but now, with demand for Malawian tobacco declining fast, the country needs to diversify rapidly. The authors combine an innovative range of theory and methods to provide a comprehensive and incisive analysis of the dilemmas faced by countries which still rely on a limited number of agricultural commodities in the 21st century. This work will be ideal for scholars and researchers interested in political economy and African development.

Author : Samuel M. Muriithi
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761805472
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Development Dilemma written by Samuel M. Muriithi and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores development issues in Africa from the human, social, economic, geographical and political perspectives. It presents arguments as to why Africa remains less developed compared to other continents and provides recommendations to achieve effective development. The author discusses such specific questions as: Are Africans capable of developing Africa? How has nature contributed to problems in Africa? and Did slavery contribute to underdevelopment?