FairShares Diagnostics
The FairShares Diagnostics are only available to registered supporters and members of the association.
The FairShares Association is piloting diagnostic tools that enable supporters and members to undertake initial social audits of their enterprises, then investigate in detail their social enterprise values, develop their workforce/member participation strategy, and improve their governance systems.
Our diagnostic tools are underpinned by ‘internationally excellent’ and award winning research by Dr Rory Ridley-Duff (Reader in Co-operative and Social Enterprise, Sheffield Hallam University), and Cliff Southcome (MD of Social Enterprise Europe).
You can read this research by downloading it from the Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive:
- Ridley-Duff, R. J. and Southcombe, C. (2012) “The Social Enterprise Mark: a critical review of its conceptual dimensions”, Social Enterprise Journal, 8(3): 178-200, downloadable from the SHURA Archive [1].
(Winner of: Best Research and Knowledge Exchange Paper in Conference, 31st Institute for Small Business and Research Conference, Sheffield – see http://www.isbe.org.uk/BestpapersISBEConference2011).
See also:
- Ridley-Duff, R. J. (2007) “Communitarian Perspectives on Social Enterprise”, Corporate Governance: an international review, 15(2): 382-392, downloadable from the SHURA Archive[2]
- Ridley-Duff, R. J. (2012) “New Frontiers in Democratic Self-Management”, in McDonnell, D. and McKnight, E. (eds) The Co-operative Model in Practice, Glasgow: Co-operative Education Trust Scotland, pp. 99 – 118, downloadable from the SHURA Archive [3].
- Ridley-Duff, R. J. (2013) “The FairShares Model: a communitarian pluralist approach to constituting social enterprises?”, paper to 34th Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Cardiff City Hall, 12th-14th November, downloadable from the SHURA Archive [4].
- Ridley-Duff, R. J. and Ponton, A. (2014) “Workforce Participation: developing a theoretical framework for longitudinal research”, Journal of Co-operative Studies, 46, forthcoming. Downloadable from the SHURA Archive [5]
