Second, the board-manager relationship is only a small part of the research on nonprofit boards, which in turn is the major focus of nonprofit governance research (Cornforth, 2012; Renz and Andersson, 2014).
To address these subtlies see: Turnbull (2002) A New Way to Govern Cornforth (2004) The Governance of Associations and Mutuals: A Paradox Perspective Ridley-Duff (2007) Communitarian Perspectives on Social Enterprise