ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores neo-institutionalism's time period, geographic, industry and faith-based pressures and constraints on organizational forms and applied information-theoretic modeling to social science and organizational questions, both in service to present new analyses to assist in the understanding of the comparative and historical contexts for nonprofit board composition and structure. It devotes to explications of predictors implicated in neo-institutional theory building and application. The book reviews the use of time period, regional culture, industry culture, and faith-base variables in neo-institutional studies of organizations, and particularly, studies of nonprofit organizations. It argues that events in the institutional environment leave time period imprints on organizational structures such as boards. The book also argues that the faith base of an organization might differentiate it from either organizations of a different faith base or from organizations with no faith base at all.
