Call for papers: Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis

Call for papers: Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis

A special issue of International Journal of Corporate Governance

The current financial crisis comes in the wake of decades of focus on corporate governance and a previous crisis (the “Enron- and Parmalat-era” scandals) that put an intense focus on corporate governance. This special issue explores the relationships between the ongoing financial crisis and the corporate governance of financial and industrial companies.

The topic is intentionally broad and designed to encourage submissions of high quality papers related to the financial crisis and corporate governance from many different perspectives. Of interest will be:

• the extent to which corporate governance failures caused, contributed to, or exacerbated the financial crisis;
• the extent to which corporate governance of financial institutions poses special challenges;
• the extent to which corporate governance of financial institutions has particular weaknesses that need attention;
• general lessons in corporate governance to be learned from the financial crisis; comparative or international perspectives on corporate governance and the financial crisis;
• the dangers of regulatory over-reaction to the crisis;
• the relationship between corporate governance and market bubbles;
• corporate governance and the long-term / short-term perspectives of managers;
• ethics and corporate governance during crisis.

The special issue provides a global forum for presenting analytical, theoretical, empirical, historic, sociological and other research and case generally related to the topic. Its purpose is to generate a diverse set of research from a variety of perspectives on the links between corporate governance and economic crisis.

The subject coverage of this special issue includes, but is not limited to:

• Comparative corporate governance
• Economic analysis of corporate governance
• Costs and benefits of changing the way corporate governance is done
• Analysis of the role of corporate governance in averting financial crises
• The relationship between corporate governance and corporate performance
• Jurisdictional competition for corporate charters in the EU and/or in the US
• Market based corporate governance (whistle-blowing, the market for corporate control, managerial competition, capital markets competition)
• The relationship between corporate governance and the current crisis
• Whether the current crisis teaches us anything about corporate governance
• The goals of corporate governance
• The relationship between regulation and corporate governance
• Case studies of corporate governance in particular firms
• Corporate governance and financial institutions
• Corporate governance and crisis from a "law and economics" perspective
• Corporate governance and crisis from a "law and society" or sociological perspective
• Corporate governance and crisis from an anthropological perspective
• The role of public-private partnerships in corporate governance during crisis
• Corporate governance and the optimal size of firms: are firms becoming both too big to fail and too big to succeed?
• Executive compensation, corporate governance and financial crisis
• Boards of directors, corporate governance and financial crisis
• Management, corporate governance and financial crisis
• The role of courts, legislatures and/or administrative agencies in corporate governance during crisis.
• Sustainable prosperity, corporate governance and financial crisis

Important Dates
Full paper deadline: 31 August, 2009
Notification of status & acceptance of paper: 15 October, 2009
Final version of paper: 30 November, 2009