Submission to Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management Contingent Ethics in Critical Ethnography Rory Ridley-Duff, Sheffield Hallam University Faculty of Organisation and Management June 2006 Contact: roryridleyduff@tiscali.co.uk 4 Rosehill Close Penistone Sheffield S36 6UF South Yorkshire England Dr Rory Ridley-Duff is a writer/consultant/lecturer whose doctoral research established how friendship, courtship and parental interests shape entrepreneurship and systems of governance. His research interests in gender and workplace democracy evolved out of directorships in two employee-controlled businesses combined with 15 years of consultancy work in the social economy.