2012 Best Reviewer Awards for CGIR

• Date: 01 July 2013
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/corg.12031
• Published date: 01 July 2013

2012 Best Reviewer Awards for CGIR

Corporate Governance: An International Review (CGIR) is fortunate to have many talented and

dedicated individuals who offer their time and expertise to do reviewing for our journal. We are

also fortunate to have 35 dedicated and established governance scholars serving on our editorial

review board, and over 2,000 ad hoc reviewers in our online database. Of course, some reviewers

stand out for providing consistently exemplary work for the journal, and we are highly appre-

ciative of their efforts. Notably, all of this work is voluntary and the only compensation is a free

subscription to the journal and a listing on our masthead for those who serve on our editorial

review board. Clearly,this professionalism and dedication needs to be recognized and celebrated.

In order to recognize some of the truly exceptionalreviewers here at CGIR, the journal conducts

an annual “best reviewer” award in order to recognize those individuals who truly stand out.

Listed below are the previous award winners:

2007 – Till Talaulicar, PhD, Universität Erfurt, Germany

2008 – Eduardo Schiehll, PhD, HEC Montreal, Canada

2009 – David O’Donnell, PhD, Intellectual Capital Research Institute, Ireland

2010 – Andrea Melis, PhD, University of Cagliari, Italy

Alessandro Minichilli, PhD, Bocconi University, Italy

2011 – Steven Gove, PhD, Virginia Tech University

Kurt Desender, PhD, Carlos III, Spain

In 2012, we are pleased to announce that Andrea Melis is one of the two reviewers recognized

for their contributions to our journal. Andrea is an associateprofessor of accounting and business

administration at the University of Cagliari, Italy. Andrea has served on our editorial board since

2007 and has published several articles in the journal. He has consistently provided high quality

and timely (an average of fewer than 17 days) reviews. In 2012, Andrea handled seven manu-

scripts and earned an average reviewer score of 2.8 (out of a perfect 3.00). Importantly, Andrea’s

reviews provided extensive and constructive comments about how the paper could be improved

on both rigor and relevance. Based on his outstanding contribution as a reviewer, Andrea has

been asked – together with Aleksandra Gregoric, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark – to

serve as one of the two screening editors of the journal.

In addition to Andrea, we would also like to recognize as an outstanding reviewer Poon Wai

Ching. Wai Ching is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Business, Monash University, Malaysia

campus. She has a PhD in economics and is an active member of several associations. Wai Ching

handled a large number of manuscripts (10) in 2012, but at the same time she maintained a

remarkable average reviewer score – 2.6 – and provided remarkably fast reviews (9.6 days). By

providing a large number of timely reviews with consistently high quality, Wai Ching is contrib-

uting greatly to the quality of the review process of CGIR.

As a token of our appreciation for Andrea and Wai Ching’s service to the journal, we will be

providing them each with a plaque, similar to our previous distinguished award winners. While

this plaque could never compensate them for their many years of training and expertise as well

as their many hours of extraordinary service to the journal, it is a tangible symbol of their

generous and professional contributions to comparative corporate governance scholarship. On

behalf of Wiley-Blackwell and CGIR, we recognize and celebrate scholars such as Andrea Melis

and Poon Wai Ching for their service to the f‌ield.