New issue of the Corporate Governance and Organizational Behavior Review journal
The editorial team of Virtus Interpress is delighted to introduce a new issue of the Corporate Governance and Organizational Behavior Review (volume 9, issue 2, 2025). This issue includes innovative research devoted to the interaction between management mechanisms and organizational behavior in modern conditions. Published studies cover a range of topics, including work engagement, self-efficacy, stakeholder governance, organizational support, corporate purpose, shareholder primacy, job demands-recourses model, regulation, leadership, Triarchic Model of Grit Scale (TMGS), and the dynamics of organizational decision-making under changing governance regimes.
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The issue opens with the research by Dimitra Zygouri and Kalliope Kaltsonoudi, who investigated the predictive capacity of perceived organizational support and self-efficacy regarding work engagement. The authors’ results indicated statistically significant positive correlations between organizational support and work engagement, and between self-efficacy and work engagement. Furthermore, analyses of mean differences demonstrated that employees in managerial positions reported significantly higher levels of work engagement compared to those in non-managerial positions. This research contributes to the understanding of factors influencing work engagement among Greek employees and offers tangible suggestions for employers.
Fernando Camastra, Giacinto Coniglio, and Antonio Blasotti, in their study, assess whether the sampled publicly listed companies that endorsed the 2019 Business Roundtable (BRT) Statement between 2019 and 2024 have implemented concrete governance reforms. Through an empirical analysis of each firm’s published governance guidelines, examining board composition, committee charters, and reporting disclosures, the authors track changes over a five-year period. The results reveal a significant divergence between proclaimed intentions and actual practice: most firms continue to anchor their governance structures in shareholder value, while only a minority exhibit genuine steps toward embedding stakeholder interests.
Carolin Buttkereit and Tim Alexander Herberger, focusing on the media, information, and telecommunications sector, analyze the relationship between positive leadership and perseverance, with perfectionism considered as a moderating variable. The results show that perseverance can increase positive leadership qualities, which a manager’s perfectionism can partially moderate. For Germany, the authors note that the TMGS is insufficient as an explanatory model, and propose a five-factor model of perseverance in our individualistic culture instead. The authors demonstrate the importance of targeted training opportunities for managers to improve their positive leadership qualities.
In the final paper, Patrizia Pastore reviews the conference proceedings book Corporate Governance: Scholarly Research and Practice, which brings together international research from four thematic sessions: board of directors’ practices, sustainability and corporate social responsibility, accounting and auditing, and general issues of corporate governance. The contributions explore new governance models such as adaptive corporate governance, board diversity, the impact of artificial intelligence on governance, and mechanisms for managing climate risks and ESG. The conference proceedings highlight the transition from compliance-based governance to more strategic, value-oriented, and ethically responsible models, and illustrate how modern governance increasingly integrates long-term value creation with stakeholder accountability and risk management.
We hope you find this issue interesting and informative!
