Document Repository http://www.socialexchange.org/apps/documents/ Onthisage,documentsaeavailalefomthemodeatosofthesite. Webs.com The Social Enterprise Mark: a critical review of its conceptual dimensions  

Latest version of the controversial paper by Rory Ridley-Duff and Cliff Southcombe.  This paper contains revisions following the ISIRC conference at  London Southbank University, and will be submitted to the Social Enterprise Journal for peer-review shortly.

]]> socialexchange Academic Articles Co-operative University - Institutional and Educational Offer (Discussion Document) Document responding to Robin Murray's call for a Co-operative Business School, based on discussions at Co-operative Congress 2011.

]]> socialexchange Key Texts Member-Employee Engagement Model Final report for a Business Link Funded pilot on member-employee engagement in co-operatives and social enterprises.  This report examines the impact of using a member-engagement survey, focus groups and organisational development workshop on the staff at Viewpoint Research CIC (an award winning social firm run for the benefit of staff who are disadvantaged in the labour market).

]]> socialexchange Key Reports Social Enterprise as a Socially Rational Business Conference version of the academic paper later published in the Interational Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research (and widely cited).  First published in the proceedings of the Social Enterprise Research Conference, 2006.

]]> socialexchange Academic Articles Silent Revolution - A Social Entrepreneurial Polemic Chapter 1 of Silent Revolution: Creating and Managing Social Enterprises (updated 2010) by Rory Ridley-Duff.  The 2002 version of this text played a key part in winning Rory Ridley-Duff a Hallam PhD Studentship to Sheffield Hallam University.  This version was revised in during the writing of Understanding Social Enterprise: Theory and Practice.

]]> socialexchange Key Texts Co-operation in the Age of Google Widely read and discussed document by Robin Harris for Co-operatives UK (2010) on the future of a co-operative economy in the internet age.

]]> socialexchange Key Texts Surplus Sharing Model Rules for Co-operatives and Social Enterprises Version 3.1 of the surplus sharing model rules created by Dr Rory Ridley-Duff at Sheffield Business School.  The model rules define Founder shareholders (who act to protect co-operative principles and the social objects of the enterprise), Labour shareholders (who control the enterprise, and receive 50% of surplus value created), and Investor shareholders (who own the enterprise, and receive 50% of surplus value created).  The rules are particularly appropriate for the startup and conversion of enterprises seeking to advance democratic control of labour and capital.

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