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Aiken, Mike; Spear, Roger; Lyon, Fergus; Teasdale, Simon; Hazenberg, Richard; Bull, Mike and Kopec Massey, Anna (2021). Social enterprise in the UK: Models and trajectories. In: Defourney, Jacques and Nyssens, Marthe eds. Social Enterprise in Western Europe. Routledge Studies in Social Enterprise & Social Innovation. Routledge, pp. 253–268.

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Aiken, Michael and Taylor, Marilyn (2019). Civic Action and Volunteering: The Changing Space for Popular Engagement in England. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 30(1) pp. 15–28.

Slater, Rachel and Aiken, Mike (2015). Can't you count? Public service delivery and standardized measurement challenges - the case of community composting. Public Management Review, 17(8) pp. 1085–1102.

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Spear, Roger; Cornforth, Chris and Aiken, Michael (2009). The governance challenges of social enterprises: evidence from a UK empirical study. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 80(2) pp. 247–273.

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Spear, Roger; Aiken, Michael and Newholm, T. (2003). Success factors in UK retail co-ops. Journal of Co-operative Studies

Cornforth, Chris; Mordaunt, Jill and Aiken, Michael (2008). Building capacity: Understanding the dilemmas of intevening in small and medium size charities. In: NCVO/VSSN Annual Research Conference, 9-10 Sep 2008, Warwick University.

Aiken, M. and Slater, R. (2007). Feeling the squeeze? Tabbies or tigers: the case of social enterprises contracting in the fields of recycling and work integration. In: 4th Annual Social Enterprise Research Conference, 4-5 Jul 2007, London, UK.

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Cornforth, Chris; Spear, Roger and Aiken, Michael (2007). Governing social enterprise: emerging challenges and needs. In: 36th Annual ARNOVA Conference, 15-17 Nov 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Cornforth, Chris; Mordaunt, Jill; Aiken, Michael and Otto, Shirley (2007). The grant maker, the change-maker and the organisation: exploring the relationship of capacity building. In: VSSN/NCVO Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference, 5-6 Sep 2007, University of Warwick, UK.

Cornforth, Chris; Spear, Roger and Aiken, Michael (2007). Governance and social enterprise. In: CIRIEC Research Conference on the Social Economy, Oct 2007, Victoria, Canada.

Aiken, Mike (2002). Managing values : the reproduction of organisational values in social economy organisations. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis The Open University.

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Cornforth, Chris; Mordaunt, Jill and Aiken, Michael (2008). Learning from capacity building and lessons for other funders. Charities Aid Foundation, West Malling, Kent.

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Aiken, Michael and Paton, Rob (2006). Evaluation of the National Outcomes Dissemination Programme 2003 - 2006. Charities Evaluation Services and The Open University, London, U.K..