1 Nonprofit Governance Research: Limitations of the Focus on Boards and Suggestions for New Directions (This is a pre-publication version of an article to be published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly available from http://nvs.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/11/14/0899764011427959 ) Chris Cornforth Open University Business School Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA UK. Email: c.j.cornforth@open.ac.uk Tel: +44 1908 655863 Fax: +44 1908 655898 Keywords: governance, boards, limitations, new research directions