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| Social innovation: Blurring boundaries to reconfigure markets A Nicholls, A Murdock Springer, 2011 | 560 | 2011 |
| Introduction: Dimensions of social innovation A Nicholls, J Simon, M Gabriel New frontiers in social innovation research, 1-26, 2016 | 513* | 2016 |
| The nature of social innovation A Nicholls, A Murdock Social innovation: Blurring boundaries to reconfigure markets, 1-30, 2012 | 492 | 2012 |
| The institutionalization of social investment: The interplay of investment logics and investor rationalities A Nicholls Journal of social entrepreneurship 1 (1), 70-100, 2010 | 467 | 2010 |
| New frontiers in social innovation research A Nicholls, J Simon, M Gabriel Springer Nature, 2015 | 433 | 2015 |
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| Social Impact Bonds: The role of private capital in outcome-based commissioning D Edmiston, A Nicholls Journal of Social Policy 47 (1), 57-76, 2018 | 241 | 2018 |
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| The role of legitimacy in social enterprise‐corporate collaboration B Huybrechts, A Nicholls Social enterprise journal 9 (2), 130-146, 2013 | 209 | 2013 |
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| Fair trade: Towards an economics of virtue A Nicholls Journal of business ethics 92 (Suppl 2), 241-255, 2010 | 177 | 2010 |