[1][2][3] She is a professor of sociology at the University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)[4] where she is affiliated with the Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires Démocratie, Institutions, Subjectivité.
She is interested in topics such as worker's experiences, democratic equality in capitalist societies, corporate governance, labor-manager relations, unions, and the labor market.
[6] In 2017 Ferreras published a book called "Firms as Political Entities – Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism" which received wide attention in the academic field.
[13] In 2004 Ferreras obtained a PhD in sociology from the University of Louvain as well as a MSc in political science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[14] Ferreras' interests lies in the field of tension between the state, businesses, and workers' in a globalised world and especially governance of firms and workplace democracy.
[22] In her book Firms as Political Entities: Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism (2017),[16] Ferreras presents her theory of democratic corporate governance.
[23] Ferreras proposes to democratise firms to make them fit the context of democratic societies by implementing economic bicameralism in companies.
The term "instrumental rationality" labels the set of norms of firms' activities that produce external good such as financial returns for capital investors.
In her academic work Ferreras is influenced and inspired by Jürgen Habermas,[21][18] Jean-Mar Ferry,[18] Amartya Sen,[21] Jean-Phillippe Robé,[10] Joel Rorger[25] and Jon Elster.
[18] She wants to help citizens better understand their situation in the specific moment in history they live, to "contribute to their capacity to seek autonomy at a collective and individual level," and affect their own future.
Furthermore, Ferreras, Battilana and Méda argue that the lives of working humans should not only be governed by market forces and capital investors.
[3] The three scholars have summarised their message in a "working manifesto" which is published in the book Le Manifeste Travail – Démocratiser, Démarchandiser, Dépolluer.
[28] Shortly after announcing the initiative publicly as a press release[29] in 36 countries,[30] additional five female scholars backed the project to created awareness in the academic community across different disciplines.