Two additional questions arise for investigation. First, the identification of a
dominant governance model in the social enterprise sector does not necessarily mean
that this model is the most effective. To assess board effectiveness is never easy but it
is made more difficult in this case because hard decisions have to be made about the
measures that could be used. In corporate governance research a focus on financial
measures can be utilised. For social enterprise, researchers must create criteria that
reflect the split between financial and social objectives. As part of the proposed
research attempts could be made to pilot different sets of criteria to address the
effectiveness issue. The second question that arises is concerned with whether
the non-profit organisations themselves perceive that there is a distinctive challenge
awaiting them in the social enterprise form and whether they intend to actively change
the composition of the board to reflect the change to social enterprise. It may be that
non-profits merely continue with the democratic model that has served them well in
the past. They may only change when situations present themselves that reveal the
inadequacy of the board in dealing with the complexities that social enterprises must
navigate in balancing social and trading objectives.