Annotated Bibliography of
Economic and Community Development Research
in Georgia Colleges and Universities

A Project of the Intellectual Capital Partnership Program (ICAPP) of the
Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
January 1998

The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia and its constituent colleges and universities have adopted a policy commitment to assist the Georgia state government in its strategic planning and implementation efforts in the area of economic and community development. A first step in fulfilling this policy commitment is to inventory the previous and current research of economic and community development issues that the institutes, programs, departments, and individual faculty and staff within Georgia's institutions of higher education have completed. Under an agreement with the Board of Regents, the Fiscal Research Program within the School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University conducted mail surveys to identify this research. The resulting inventory provides the first annotated bibliography and consolidated repository of research on these policy issues authored within Georgia's institutions. This information is being made available to policy makers and researchers for planning and to identify further research opportunities.

This Annotated Bibliography of Georgia Community and Economic Development Research reflects work authored within the last ten years by faculty and staff of Georgia's colleges and universities. It consists of works identified by responses to two mail surveys sent in July and August 1997. Both public and private institutions of higher education were included in the survey.

Included with the Annotated Bibliography are (1) an Addendum of unannotated research; (2) a Topical Index; and (3) an Institutional Index. In addition to these features, there is a physical repository of research documents submitted by the authors as requested in the survey. Al1 documents in the physical repository are identified in the Annotated Bibliography with a special symbol ( ).

This ICAPP project was initiated by Annie Hunt Burriss, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Development and Economic Services, and conducted under agreement with the Fiscal Research Program at Georgia State University. The project was directed by Jeanie Thomas with project coordination by Dorie Taylor. The survey instruments were designed by Larry Gess and the email and website features developed by Peter Gess. Annotations were accumulated and written by David Haskin and Brian Bezold and editorial review was provided by Barbara Edwards. Margo Doers assisted throughout the project as well.

Suzanne Fulstrom facilitated contacts within Regents, Susan Contreras helped with editorial guidance and assistance, and other members of the staff of the Board of Regents assisted in making University System contacts.