This article reports on the initial findings of an Industrial Strategy Project Research Programme on a key current element of national industrial policy, namely Spatial Development Initiatives (SDIs). The ISP Research Programme is concerned with industrial investment. The operational industrial...

This article seeks to establish a conceptual framework for understanding the nature of ‘NGO management’ as a field of research and practice. It argues that NGOs have become a prominent feature of the policy landscape, but that little attention has so far been given to their organization and...

Abstract Popular representations of development need to be taken seriously (though not uncritically) as sources of authoritative knowledge, not least because this is how most people in the global North (and elsewhere) ‘encounter’ development issues. To this end, and building on the broader...