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The community company model / Rory Ridley-Duff, Mike Bull.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526405302 (ebook) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.3152
Online resources: In 1989, Peter Beeby helped by his former teacher invested D5000 in the creation of Sportasia Ltd. Fifteen years later, Peter stood before the workforce and shareholders of School Trends Ltd (one of the companies created by Sportasia Ltd) and asked the question, Who rightly owns this company? The round of applause told its own story. Two months later, the shareholders (on a one-share, one-vote basis) and the workforce (on a one-person, one-vote basis) voted to convert their company to an employee-owned business.The Community Company Model embraces an approach to entrepreneurship developed at Sportasia Ltd. This case examines the application of the model at School Trends Ltd.
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Originally published: Ridley-Duff, R., & Bull, M. (2015). The Community Company Model [Supplemental material]. In Understanding social enterprise: Theory and practice (2nd ed.). London, UK: SAGE Publications Ltd. ISBN: 9781446295526.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In 1989, Peter Beeby helped by his former teacher invested D5000 in the creation of Sportasia Ltd. Fifteen years later, Peter stood before the workforce and shareholders of School Trends Ltd (one of the companies created by Sportasia Ltd) and asked the question, Who rightly owns this company? The round of applause told its own story. Two months later, the shareholders (on a one-share, one-vote basis) and the workforce (on a one-person, one-vote basis) voted to convert their company to an employee-owned business.The Community Company Model embraces an approach to entrepreneurship developed at Sportasia Ltd. This case examines the application of the model at School Trends Ltd.

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