The Case for FairShares: A new model for social enterprise development and the strengthening of the social and solidarity economy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781512377668)

Dr Ridley-Duff is Associate Professor of Cooperative and Social Enterprise at Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University. Dr Ridley-Duff's primary research interest is the process by which democratic relations develop in both informal and formal organisations and affect governing processes. He has authored three books, 35 scholarly papers and two novels. The first book, Emotion, Seduction and Intimacy examines relationship development at work, and the second, Understanding Social Enterprise: Theory and Practice has helped to establish the field of social enterprise studies in four continents. His third book is The Case for FairShares, which brings together a decade of research projects and begins to frame a new philosophy for business. His research has been published in Human Relations, Corporate Governance: An International Review, the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, the Social Enterprise Journal and Journal of Cooperative Studies. He won best paper awards from Emerald Publishing in 2011 for a paper on ethical capital and from the 31st Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference (ISBE) for critical research on the Social Enterprise Mark. He became a director of Social Enterprise Europe Ltd in 2012, co-founded the FairShares Association in 2013, is Chair of the PRME Working Group at Sheffield Business School, and acting Chair of the International Cooperative Business Education Consortium.