| The governance of cooperatives and mutual associations: A paradox perspective C Cornforth Annals of public and cooperative economics 75 (1), 11-32, 2004 | 914 | 2004 |
| The governance of public and non-profit organizations C Cornforth Routledge, 2002 | 837* | 2002 |
| The governance challenges of social enterprises: evidence from a UK empirical study R Spear, C Cornforth, M Aiken Annals of public and cooperative economics 80 (2), 247-273, 2009 | 521 | 2009 |
| Understanding and combating mission drift in social enterprises C Cornforth Social enterprise journal 10 (1), 3-20, 2014 | 494 | 2014 |
| Nonprofit governance research: Limitations of the focus on boards and suggestions for new directions C Cornforth Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 41 (6), 1116-1135, 2012 | 484 | 2012 |
| What makes boards effective? An examination of the relationships between board inputs, structures, processes and effectiveness in non‐profit organisations C Cornforth Corporate Governance: An International Review 9 (3), 217-227, 2001 | 470 | 2001 |
| Governing cross-sector, inter-organizational collaborations S Vangen, JP Hayes, C Cornforth Public Management Review 17 (9), 1237-1260, 2015 | 461 | 2015 |
| Developing successful worker co-operatives C Cornforth, A Thomas, R Spear, J Lewis SAGE publications Ltd, 1988 | 400 | 1988 |
| Patterns of cooperative management: Beyond the degeneration thesis C Cornforth Economic and Industrial Democracy 16 (4), 487-523, 1995 | 340 | 1995 |
| Board Roles in the Strategic Management of Non‐profit Organisations: theory and practic C Cornforth, C Edwards Corporate Governance: An International Review 7 (4), 346-362, 1999 | 230 | 1999 |
| Nonprofit governance research: the need for new perspectives and approaches C Cornforth, WA Brown Nonprofit governance, 1-14, 2013 | 205 | 2013 |
| Nonprofit–public collaborations: Understanding governance dynamics C Cornforth, JP Hayes, S Vangen Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 44 (4), 775-795, 2015 | 185 | 2015 |
| 13. The governance of hybrid organisations C Cornforth Handbook on hybrid organisations, 220, 2020 | 136 | 2020 |
| Accountability in nonprofit governance: A process-based study R Tacon, G Walters, C Cornforth Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 46 (4), 685-704, 2017 | 119 | 2017 |
| Beyond nonprofit management education: Leadership development in a time of blurred boundaries and distributed learning R Paton, J Mordaunt, C Cornforth Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 36 (4_suppl), 148S-162S, 2007 | 115 | 2007 |
| Corporate governance as a key aspect in the failure of worker cooperatives I Basterretxea, C Cornforth, I Heras-Saizarbitoria Economic and industrial democracy 43 (1), 362-387, 2022 | 109 | 2022 |
| Nonprofit governance: A review of the field DO Renz, FO Andersson Nonprofit governance, 17-46, 2013 | 109 | 2013 |
| For love and money: Governance and social enterprise R Spear, C Cornforth, M Aiken National Council for Voluntary Organisations, 2007 | 101 | 2007 |
| Change and continuity in the governance of nonprofit organizations in the United Kingdom: The impact of organizational size C Cornforth, C Simpson Nonprofit Management and Leadership 12 (4), 451-470, 2002 | 94 | 2002 |
| Perceptions of board chair leadership effectiveness in nonprofit and voluntary sector organizations Y Harrison, V Murray, C Cornforth VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 24 …, 2013 | 92 | 2013 |