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Informationen zum Autor Dr Steve Conway is Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Management at the University of Bath School of Management. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer in Innovation at Leicester University Management Centre.Dr Fred Steward is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Brunel University. He is programme leader in the centre for Brunel Research on Enterprise! Sustainability and Ethics. Previously he was a Reader in Innovation at Aston University Business School Klappentext Managing and Shaping Innovation provides a comprehensive analysis of innovation! including developments in theory! perspectives on innovation and the management of innovation. Zusammenfassung Managing and Shaping Innovation enables students to understand the theories of innovation and to appreciate technological change and the management of innovation in organisations. The presentation and discussion of the theory and research in the book equips the reader with a solid academic underpinning and the illustration and cases in each chapter apply the theory in a real world context.The broad coverage includes the typical topics found on innovation management modules and also gives explicit attention to developing areas such as social networking. The network perspective included in the text is just one example of the analytical approach the authors take.Online Resource CentreFor lecturers:Figures from the bookPowerPoint slidesFor students:Web linksMedia watch - regularly updated news articles with commentary from Steve Conway Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: BUILDING THE FOUNDATIONS ; 1. Introduction: Key Themes! Concepts and Definitions in the Study of Innovation ; 2. Tensions! Paradox and Contradictions in Managing Innovation ; 3. Innovation from a Network Perspective ; PART TWO: STRATEGY AND THE MAPPING OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS ; 4. The Patterns of Innovation within the Life Cycle of a Technology ; 5. Technological Regimes! Trajectories! Transitions! Discontinuity! and Long Waves ; 6. Innovation Strategies ; PART THREE: THE MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS ; 7. Organizing for Innovation: Organization Structure and Culture ; 8. Managing the Innovation Process ; 9. Social Networks and Informality in the Innovation Process ; PART FOUR: THE IMPACT OF CONTEXT ON THE MANAGEMENT AND 'SHAPING' OF INNOVATION ; 10. The Sources of Innovation: The Role of Users! Suppliers! and Competitors! in the Innovation Process ; 11. The Transformative Capacity of Innovation and Innovation Systems ...
