Steve Conway
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Conway |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Conway |
| SIGNATURE | CONWAY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Teesside University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9978-667X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Insights from obsolescence
This paper proposes a qualitative methodological framework grounded in the interpretation of skeuomorphs. Scholarly attention to this phenomenon has largely come from the spheres of archaeology and design/technology. Drawing on Benjamin's ideas about the interpretive scope of objects, I propose that skeuomorphs reflect the social conditions of their creation and can therefore be the starting point for generating a series of contemporary sociologi…
Information sharing in public-private relationships
The management of public-private relationships to deliver vital public products and services is crucial to ensure high performance. While extant public management studies have started to position contracts as vital in managing information exchange, these studies paid limited attention to unpack the elements within a contract, and their role and capacity, to support (or hinder) information sharing. Drawing on primary and secondary datasets, we exa…
Innovations in Service Companies
Service innovation has until recently been a relatively neglected area of research, despite the importance of the service sector‐to‐developed economies. Alternative perspectives of innovation within the service sector argue that it is: (i) driven largely by technology from outside the sector; (ii) distinct from product innovation; (iii) increasingly intertwined with product innovation; or (iv) highly varied across the sector. The new service deve…
Organizing for Innovation
A key challenge for many organizations is the design and adoption of a mode of organizing that encourages innovation and creativity, allows flexibility and agility to respond in a timely manner to changes in the environment, and facilitates integration and coordination both internally, between functions and divisions, and externally, with users, suppliers, and universities, for example. The findings of studies since the 1960s provide us with a gr…
Representing dying, representing class? Social distinction, aestheticisation and the performing self
Seeking to examine the ‘middle-class normalisation of death’, this paper begins to explore the particular place of certain representations of dying within this process. It is divided into four parts. First, it introduces the Bourdieuvian orientation of the analysis. Second, the relevance of the related notions of an aestheticisation of class relations and the modern emphasis upon the performing self are critically outlined. Third, these ideas are…
Death, working-class culture and social distinction
Following Howarth (2007), this paper examines the relationship between class culture and social distinction in the empirical area of death and dying. For Howarth (2007), the sociological neglect of the end-of-life cultural practices of working-class people carries the danger ‘of privileging middle-class agendas for change, ... [t]here is an urgent need for further studies ... and a refinement of existing research to draw out social class distinct…
Healthy Senior Citizenship' in voluntary and community organisations
This essay critically examines the process of governmentality as revealed in the construction and resistance to the categorisation and classification of ‘Healthy Senior Citizenship’. This also includes an illustrative analysis of data from a national UK qualitative interview study of the input into the policy process of older adults in voluntary and community organisations. The paper demonstrates how governmentality finds its expression within th…
Public health and palliative care
Public health approaches to palliative care have a valuable contribution to make in understanding and developing community capacity related to death, dying, loss and care, acknowledging that carers of the dying and bereaved are an important group who have their own significant needs in end-of-life care. Drawing upon a sociological framework, this article suggests that an even greater contribution is possible by an emphasis upon understanding lay …
The changing face of death
Palliative care and bereavement care attempt to foster greater dignity in death and loss. Yet the former has been criticised for 'creeping medicalisation' and the latter for individualising grief and loss to the 'talking therapies'. In a broad sense, amongst the dying, their communities and advocates, there is growing recognition of the positive aspects of more collective responses to death to integrate the dying, public health and community. In …
There is a Mantra of
Situating Discourse in Environmental Innovation Networks
Network mapping and discourse analysis are combined in the study of organizational communication in `green' innovation in UK and German firms. The `focal action-set' approach is introduced as a method for mapping actors, links and flows mobilized in the development of discrete innovations; this enables a `situated' focus on discourse between actors in different parts of the network. Capabilities for handling multiple discourses across a range of …
Death, working-class culture and social distinction
Following Howarth (2007), this paper examines the relationship between class culture and social distinction in the empirical area of death and dying. For Howarth (2007), the sociological neglect of the end-of-life cultural practices of working-class people carries the danger ‘of privileging middle-class agendas for change, ... [t]here is an urgent need for further studies ... and a refinement of existing research to draw out social class distinct…
Healthy Senior Citizenship' in voluntary and community organisations
This essay critically examines the process of governmentality as revealed in the construction and resistance to the categorisation and classification of ‘Healthy Senior Citizenship’. This also includes an illustrative analysis of data from a national UK qualitative interview study of the input into the policy process of older adults in voluntary and community organisations. The paper demonstrates how governmentality finds its expression within th…
There is a Mantra of
Situating Discourse in Environmental Innovation Networks
Network mapping and discourse analysis are combined in the study of organizational communication in `green' innovation in UK and German firms. The `focal action-set' approach is introduced as a method for mapping actors, links and flows mobilized in the development of discrete innovations; this enables a `situated' focus on discourse between actors in different parts of the network. Capabilities for handling multiple discourses across a range of …
The changing face of death
Palliative care and bereavement care attempt to foster greater dignity in death and loss. Yet the former has been criticised for 'creeping medicalisation' and the latter for individualising grief and loss to the 'talking therapies'. In a broad sense, amongst the dying, their communities and advocates, there is growing recognition of the positive aspects of more collective responses to death to integrate the dying, public health and community. In …
There is a Mantra of
Public health and palliative care
Public health approaches to palliative care have a valuable contribution to make in understanding and developing community capacity related to death, dying, loss and care, acknowledging that carers of the dying and bereaved are an important group who have their own significant needs in end-of-life care. Drawing upon a sociological framework, this article suggests that an even greater contribution is possible by an emphasis upon understanding lay …
Healthy Senior Citizenship' in voluntary and community organisations
This essay critically examines the process of governmentality as revealed in the construction and resistance to the categorisation and classification of ‘Healthy Senior Citizenship’. This also includes an illustrative analysis of data from a national UK qualitative interview study of the input into the policy process of older adults in voluntary and community organisations. The paper demonstrates how governmentality finds its expression within th…
Death, working-class culture and social distinction
Following Howarth (2007), this paper examines the relationship between class culture and social distinction in the empirical area of death and dying. For Howarth (2007), the sociological neglect of the end-of-life cultural practices of working-class people carries the danger ‘of privileging middle-class agendas for change, ... [t]here is an urgent need for further studies ... and a refinement of existing research to draw out social class distinct…
Representing dying, representing class? Social distinction, aestheticisation and the performing self
Seeking to examine the ‘middle-class normalisation of death’, this paper begins to explore the particular place of certain representations of dying within this process. It is divided into four parts. First, it introduces the Bourdieuvian orientation of the analysis. Second, the relevance of the related notions of an aestheticisation of class relations and the modern emphasis upon the performing self are critically outlined. Third, these ideas are…
Innovations in Service Companies
Service innovation has until recently been a relatively neglected area of research, despite the importance of the service sector‐to‐developed economies. Alternative perspectives of innovation within the service sector argue that it is: (i) driven largely by technology from outside the sector; (ii) distinct from product innovation; (iii) increasingly intertwined with product innovation; or (iv) highly varied across the sector. The new service deve…
Organizing for Innovation
A key challenge for many organizations is the design and adoption of a mode of organizing that encourages innovation and creativity, allows flexibility and agility to respond in a timely manner to changes in the environment, and facilitates integration and coordination both internally, between functions and divisions, and externally, with users, suppliers, and universities, for example. The findings of studies since the 1960s provide us with a gr…
Information sharing in public-private relationships
The management of public-private relationships to deliver vital public products and services is crucial to ensure high performance. While extant public management studies have started to position contracts as vital in managing information exchange, these studies paid limited attention to unpack the elements within a contract, and their role and capacity, to support (or hinder) information sharing. Drawing on primary and secondary datasets, we exa…
Insights from obsolescence
This paper proposes a qualitative methodological framework grounded in the interpretation of skeuomorphs. Scholarly attention to this phenomenon has largely come from the spheres of archaeology and design/technology. Drawing on Benjamin's ideas about the interpretive scope of objects, I propose that skeuomorphs reflect the social conditions of their creation and can therefore be the starting point for generating a series of contemporary sociologi…
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