“…In nonprofit governance research and practice, the board is seen as ‘a subject of enormous importance’, being given ‘ultimate responsibility’ for their organization (for an overview, see Ostrower and Stone, , p. 612). Cray and Inglis () concluded, in their study on strategic decision making in arts organizations, that boards of arts organizations may be even more directly involved than those of other types of nonprofit endeavours (Cray and Inglis, ). (a) The boards' different roles and different tasks, (b) the formation of its relationship with the executive management and (c) the board composition define different governance models or typologies, within which organizations perform (Dickenson, ; Duca, ; Hung, ; Murray, ; Brown, ; Cornforth, ; Ostrower and Stone, ; Bradshaw et al , ).…”