New burning topics for research in corporate board practices
Editorial team and Publisher of the journal “Corporate Board: role, duties and composition” aimed to outline the most perspective fields of research in corporate board practices which will be demanded by the scholars worldwide. We asked the Advisory Board members of the journal to provide their point of view.
Alessio Maria Pacces, Professor of Law and Finance, Erasmus School of Law, and Director, European Master in Law and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands), forecasts that the following issues of corporate board practices will be on the forefront of the scholarly research:
- the role of the board in related party transactions
- the role of the board in the presence of shareholder activism
Mattias Nordqvist, Professor of Business Administration, Jönköping International Business School (Sweden), believes that the role of ownership for governance and boards should be also investigated.
Paul Moxey, Visiting Professor in Corporate Governance at London South Bank University (UK), stated that in the near future the most popular scholarly research topics in corporate board practices will be:
- board evaluation in terms of board performance indicators
- board decision-making process (asymmetry information issue)
- board information issues
- the board’s role in the risk governance process
- board of directors` strategy
- board policies
- performance analysis
- audit committee value
With regard to these advises we added several more topics to the list of existing research topic of the journal “Corporate Board: role, duties and composition”. We expect that this will let our authors continue to be in the mainstream of the scholarly research in corporate board issues. The updated list of topics of the journal “Corporate Board: role, duties and composition” is given below:
- Board models
- Directors’ duties and liabilities
- Directors’ independence
- Internal control
- Board leadership
- Board size and continuity
- Board reporting and accountability
- Remuneration and compensation issues
- Conflict of interests
- Board committees
- Board performance
- Gender diversity of the board
- Board ethics
- Board information issues
- The board’s role in the risk governance process
- Board of directors` strategy
- Board policies
- Board evaluation
- Board decision-making process (asymmetry information issue)
- The role of the board in the presence of shareholder activism and in the related party transactions
The journal “Corporate Board: role, duties and composition” is published three times a year so papers can be submitted during the year. Submitted papers will be reviewed and if accepted, published in the following issue of the journal.
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