2007 Best Paper Announcement

• Date: 01 May 2008
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8683.2008.00686.x
• Published date: 01 May 2008

2007 Best Paper Announcement

Please join us in congratulating the authors of the award-

winning papers published in 2007 (volume 15) of Corporate

Governance: An International Review. The nomination criteria

included the following three standards: (1) the research

question and findings must be highly relevant to practitio-

ners and/or policy-makers, (2) the research study must

be both theoretically and methodologically rigorous, and

(3) the research must be published in 2007.

Using these three criteria, nominations were made by

members of our distinguished Editorial Advisory Board –

many of whom have direct, first-hand working experience

in dealing with the challenges confronting corporations

from their respective regions all over the world. Of the 110

articles published in 2007, six articles were nominated to

be considered for our best paper distinction. Next, our

Associate Editors personally read each of the six articles

and ranked them independently in terms of rigor and

relevance.

While this was an extremely challenging task, it was inter-

esting to note the relatively high level of inter-rater agree-

ment between our Associate Editors. Accordingly, it is my

pleasure to announce that the “best paper” award winner

for 2007 was authored by Yuan Ding (Chinese European

International Business School), Hua Zhang (Chinese

European International Business School) and Junxi Zhang

(University of Hong Kong).

More formally, the “Best Paper Award” citation is as

follows:

Ding, Y., Zhang, H. & Zhang, J. 2007. Private versus state

ownership and earnings management: Evidence from

Chinese listed companies, Corporate Governance: An

International Review, 15(2): 223–238.

The runner-up award winner for 2007 was authored by

Gavin Nicholson (Queensland University of Technology)

and Geoffrey Kiel (University of Queensland), both of which

hail from Brisbane, Australia.

Specifically, the “Runner-Up Award” citation is as

follows:

Nicholson, G. & Kiel, G. 2007. Can directors impact

performance? A case-based test of three theories of corpo-

rate governance. Corporate Governance: An International

Review, 15(4): 585–608.

Congratulations to these authors for their significant con-

tributions to the international corporate governance litera-

ture. If you would like to read their articles, we commend

you to the Wiley Interscience website.

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