Critical interest in the characteristics, make-up and management of nonprofit organizations has seldom been higher. As this impetus grows, this important book draws on advances in neo-institutional organizational theory to explore the environmental and contextual influences on the structure and composition of boards of nonprofit organizations.

RIKKI ABZUG New School University, USA. JEFFREY S. SIMONOFF New York University, USA

Contents: Boards of trustees and their intellectual environment; Boards and their varying nature; From whence structure: time period imprinting; Regional cultures of trusteeship; Industry cultures of trusteeship; What difference does faith make?; The six cities trusteeship project dataset; Statistical models and model selection; Analyses of trusteeship in different contexts; Summary and conclusions; Appendix A: Organizations examined in the study; Bibliography; Index.