Managing Innovation analyzes the importance of innovation in the practice of successful manufacturing and service-based organizations in the public, private, and volunteer sectors in a sectoral, national, and global context. It examines innovation as a managerial, social, political, and emotional process. The text is reinforced by chapter summaries, case studies, review questions, and a companion website. It is ideal for advanced undergraduate courses in business, engineering, and computer science management.

Managing And Shaping Innovation

Business & Money

Conway, Steve

Steward, Fred

Management & Leadership

Oxford University Press

Political, economic, social, cultural and technological changes have led to profound transformations in the ways that death and loss are perceived and managed in contemporary society. Over the last few decades, the long term shift to chronic illness as a major causal factor has significantly increased the time scale of dying. Most people die in institutions and 'care' is typically medical. Many communities and ordinary citizens now relinquish control and involvement to experts in the last stages of life. At global and local levels, however, new arrangements are emerging to govern the changing face of death, and a reorientation model is being developed to counter claims of the 'creeping medicalisation' of death and dying. With an international authorship and scope, this book illustrates the interlinking nature of society, death and loss, and it gives examples of governance that promotes the empowerment, participation and the increasing need for the involvement of ordinary people and communities in differing social and cultural contexts. Chapters come from collaborations of academics and practitioners in end of life care - from sociologists, anthropologists or the arts but also from nursing, social work, or medicine. The result is a reflective, academic and practical discussion of the outline of the problem we face in the contemporary governance of death, and an exploration of the critical, theoretical and practice-based ways forward for us all.

Governing Death and Loss: Empowerment, Involvement and Participation

Parenting & Relationships

The wood industry's all-time best seller, written by a logger who has studied and practiced every type of harvesting operation. Conway covers everything from crew organization through cutting patterns, felling, bucking, and safety procedures-with the objective of increasing efficiency and profitability.

Timber Cutting Practices

Economics

Backbeat Books

Science & Math

Technology

Thousands of loggers around the world have found fresh ideas for productivity improvements and practical techniques for maximum profit in Logging Practices. Topics include: changes in forest resources and the labor force; effects of economic downturns; smaller logs; new felling, bucking, and loading equipment; transportation costs, environmental considerations, safety. Specific examples of actual operations will help you solve problems and better understand the entire harvesting system.

Logging Practices: Principles of Timber Harvesting Systems

Nature & Ecology

A witty, revealing memoir by Phantom FM DJ Steve Conway about the years he spent on Radio Caroline, the pirate radio ship with a rock 'n' roll history, published alongside the release of Richard Curtis' (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill) brilliant film The Boat That Rocked. Radio Caroline was the iconic pirate radio station, immediately capturing the imagination of millions of people when it started broadcasting rabble-rousing, cutting-edge music to Britain and Ireland from international waters in 1964. When he first went out to the radio ship, the Ross Revenge, in December 1985, Steve Conway, a 21-year-old IT executive, was fulfilling his dream of working on Caroline. Despite his young age, he soon became a vital part of Caroline's renegade crew, broadcasting music and news programmes, helping keep the vessel seaworthy during fierce storms, and making sure the station ran smoothly on a shoestring budget- doing it all despite staffing problems, technical crises and persistent harassment by the authorities. In this gripping memoir, Steve Conway tells of his time aboard the Ross Revenge: the excitement and danger of living on board the ship for long spells, the constant challenge of keeping complex electronic equipment working in occasionally treacherous conditions (including the collapse of the ship's main mast in November 1987), and the camaraderie of working alongside people who, like him, were completely committed to the radio station and its fiercely bohemian ideals. His wild and wonderful tale builds towards the sad demise of Radio Caroline as a ship-based station, recounting how he and his few remaining companions narrowly escaped drowning after the ship ran aground on the notorious Goodwin Sands in hurricane-force winds in November 1991. A love letter to Ross Revenge and rock music, ShipRocked has to be read to be believed.

ShipRocked: Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Liberties Press

Radio Caroline was an iconic pirate radio station, immediately capturing the imagination of millions of people when it started broadcasting rabble-rousing, cutting-edge music to Britain and Ireland from international waters in 1964. When he first went out to the radio ship, the Ross Revenge, in December 1985, Steve Conway, a 21-year-old IT executive, was fulfilling his dream of working on Caroline. Despite his young age, he soon became a vital part of Caroline's renegade crew, broadcasting music and news programs, helping keep the vessel seaworthy during fierce storms, and making sure the station ran smoothly on a shoestring budget. He did this all despite staffing problems, technical crises and persistent harassment by the authorities. In this gripping memoir, Steve Conway tells of his time aboard the Ross Revenge: the excitement and danger of living on board the ship for long spells, the constant challenge of keeping complex electronic equipment working in occasionally treacherous conditions (including the collapse of the ship's main mast in November 1987), and the camaraderie of working alongside people who, like him, were completely committed to the radio station and its fiercely bohemian ideals. His wild and wonderful tale builds towards the sad demise of Radio Caroline as a ship-based station, recounting how he and his few remaining companions narrowly escaped drowning after the ship ran aground on the notorious Goodwin Sands in hurricane-force winds in November 1991. This is the true story of the “boat that rocked”.

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Books by Conway, Steve

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Managing And Shaping Innovation

Governing Death and Loss: Empowerment, Involvement and Participation

Timber Cutting Practices

Timber Cutting Practices

Logging Practices: Principles of Timber Harvesting Systems

ShipRocked: Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline

ShipRocked: Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline