FairShares Diagnostics
The FairShares Diagnostics are only available to registered supporters and members of the association.
The FairShares Association is piloting surveys tools that enable supporters and members to undertake initial social audits of their enterprises. These are available to anyone at the moment. The tools for a detailed investigation of applied social enterprise values, workforce/member participation, and governance ideologies are for association supporters only.
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[1].
see Winner: Best Research and Knowledge Exchange, 31st ISBE Conference.
See also:
- Ridley-Duff, R. J. (2007) “Communitarian Perspectives on Social Enterprise”, Corporate Governance: an international review, 15(2): 382-392[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[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[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[5]
