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Dr Rory Ridley-Duff
BMus, MCP, PhD
Phone 0114 225 5247
E-mail r.ridley-duff@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
Dr Rory Ridley-Duff is a senior lecturer in human resource management and organisation behaviour. His professional background was gained as a director of worker co-operatives designing and delivering enterprise-level software system to third sector organisations. This led to research interests in workplace democracy, governance, and gender relations.
After winning a Sheffield Hallam PhD studentship, he undertook research into corporate governance in three social enterprises. His books include 'Silent Revolution: Creating and Managing Social Enterprises' and 'Emotion, Seduction and Intimacy: Alternative Perspectives on Organisation Behaviour' and he has contributed articles on social enterprise to international journals including 'Corporate Governance: An International Review, and the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research'.
In addition to his own research interests, he is currently supervising Masters and doctoral research on work-life balance issues, storytelling in ethnic minority social enterprises, and Islamic business ethics.
Research collaborations
In 2006, Rory provided model social enterprise rules for the Common Cause Foundation, a trust specialising in the provision of legal structures for employee-owned social enterprises. More recently, Rory has delivered the programme 'Bridging the Divide: Governance and Decision-Making in the Third Sector' with colleagues from Manchester Metropolitan and Sheffield Hallam Universities in partnership with Voluntary Action Rotherham. His next collaboration is a book for Sage Publications titled 'Understanding Social Enterprise: Theory and Practice' which will be co-authored with Mike Bull (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Pam Seanor (Huddersfield University).
Key publications since 2001
Journal articles
Ridley-Duff, R. J. (2009) 'Cooperative Social Enterprises: Company Rules, Access to Finance and Management Practice', Social Enterprise Journal, 5(1), forthcoming.
Ridley-Duff, R. J. (2008) 'Social Enterprise as a Socially Rational Business', International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 14(5): 291-312.
Ridley-Duff, R. J. (2007) 'Communitarian Perspectives on Social Enterprise', Corporate Governance: An International Review, 15(2), 382-392.
Books
Ridley-Duff, R. J. (2007) 'Emotion, Seduction and Intimacy: Alternative Perspectives on Social Enterprise', Bracknell: Men's Hour Books.
Ridley-Duff, R. J. (2002) 'Silent Revolution: Creating and Managing Social Enterprises', Barnsley: First Contact Software Ltd.
Other recent publications
Ridley-Duff, R. J. and Barton, S. (2009) 'Discussion of why social enterprises are attracting more interest and why social marketing is particularly relevant to them- Support the thinking business.' Paper and presentation to Influencing Behaviour and Understanding for Positive benefits - Social Marketing and the Countryside, Countryside Recreation Network, 11 March, Sheffield
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Ridley-Duff, R. J. (2008) 'Gendering, Courtship and Pay Equality', paper to the 31st Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship conference (ISBE), 7-9 November, Belfast.
Bull, M., Ridley-Duff, R. J., Foster, D., Seanor, P. (2008) 'Ethical Capital: A Neglected Aspect in the Conceptualisation of Social Enterprise', paper to the 5th Social Entrepreneurship Research Conference (SERC), 26-27 June, London.
Seanor, P., Bull, M. and Ridley-Duff, R. J. (2007) 'Contradictions in Social Enterprise', paper to the 30th Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship conference (ISBE), 7-9 November, Glasgow.
Ridley-Duff, R. J. (2005) 'Interpersonal Dynamics: A Communitarian Perspective', paper to the 1st ENROAC-MCA Conference, 7-9 April, Antwerp.
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