Fergus Lyon is a Professor of Enterprise and Organisations in the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex University in London and Deputy Director of the ESRC Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity. His research interests include social and sustainable enterprises, provision of public services by social enterprises, clustering and networks of enterprises, ethnic minority enterprise, and enterprise support policy. Recent funders include the Economic and Social Research Council, Cabinet Office, Dept of Business Innovation Skills, Innovate UK, International Labour Organisation, and a number of charities. In 2007 he was seconded to the Prime Ministers' Strategy Unit (Health team) in the Cabinet Office. He was the social enterprise lead on the £10m Third Sector Research Centre funded over five years by ESRC and Office for Civil Society. Previously he has carried out research in Ghana, Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Nepal. He is also a founder and director of a social enterprise preschool. Fergus has over 130 publications including 40 substantial reports for policy makers funded by UK and international donors, 25 papers in established international journals, 23 book chapters, a number of shorter policy briefings and two books on social research methodologies.
Sepulveda, Leandro and Lyon, Fergus and Vickers, Ian (2018) ‘Social enterprise spin-outs’: an institutional analysis of their emergence and potential. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management . ISSN 0953-7325 (Published online first)
Haugh, Helen and Lyon, Fergus and Doherty, Bob (2018) Social entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship and social value creation. In: The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Backburn, Robert and De Clercq, Dick and Heinonen, Jarna , eds. SAGE, pp. 125-142. ISBN 9781473925236
Ayakwah, Anthony and Sepulveda, Leandro and Lyon, Fergus (2018) Competitive or cooperative relationships in clusters: a comparative study of two internationalising agro-processing clusters in Ghana. Critical Perspectives on International Business . ISSN 1742-2043 (Published online first)
Vickers, Ian and Lyon, Fergus and Sepulveda, Leandro and McMullin, Caitlin (2017) Public service innovation and multiple institutional logics: the case of hybrid social enterprise providers of health and wellbeing. Research Policy, 46 (10). pp. 1755-1768. ISSN 0048-7333
Lyon, Fergus and Fernandez, Heather (2012) Scaling up social enterprise: strategies taken from early years providers. Working Paper. TSRC.