Understanding Social Enterprise Theory and Practice

Rory Ridley-Duff is Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Throughoutthe 1990s, Rory was a director of Computercraft Ltd, an IT cooperative thathelped to establish Social Enterprise London.nbsp; His experience and earlywriting activities enabled him to win a PhD Studentship to Sheffield Hallam University where heresearched the governance practices of a private company converting to socialenterprise.nbsp; In 2003, he became a lecturer at Sheffield Business School and recentlyestablished an MScnbsp;Social Enterprise and Business Democracy degree.Now an editorial board member of the Social Enterprise Journal, he isalso a director of the social firm Viewpoint Research CIC, and one…  More ofUnLtd's Ambassadors for Social Entrepreneurship in Higher Education.  Less

Mike Bull is Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University and unitleader of a final year module on social enterprise at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. He is aneditorial board member of Social Enterprise Journal and is a Director ofSocial Enterprise North West (SENW) and Together Works - The social enterprisenetwork for Greater Manchester. Mike has developed a rich understanding of thefield through his experiences, as well as through his original research andcontributions to knowledge, having led on a number of research projects,focusing particularly on strategic management and the organisationalperformances of social enterprises .