2013 Best Reviewer Awards for CGIR

• Published date: 01 July 2014
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/corg.12075
• Date: 01 July 2014

2013 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 46 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.

From this year, we have introduced a policy of not repeating winners in a three-year period. This

policy is intended to enlarge the number of scholars we would like to recognize for their great

contribution to the journal.

Listed below are the previous award winners:

2007 – Till Talaulicar, PhD, Universität Erfurt and 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

2012 – Andrea Melis, PhD, University of Cagliari, Italy

Poon Wai Ching, PhD, Monash University, Malaysia

In 2013, we are pleased to announce that Krista Lewellyn is one of the two reviewers recog-

nized for their contributions to our journal. Krista is an Assistant Professor of Management at the

University of Wyoming, USA. Krista was a PhD student at Old Dominion University. Her

contribution to the journal has been invaluable in the last years as she was previously managing

editor and later editorial board member. She also published a number of articles that contributed

to citations and to the reputation of the journal. She has consistently provided high quality and

timely (with an average of about 18 days) reviews. In 2013, Krista handled eight manuscripts and

earned an average reviewer score of 3.0 out of 3.0. Importantly, Krista’s reviews provided exten-

sive and constructive comments about how the paper could be improved in terms of both rigor

and relevance.

In addition to Krista, we would also like to recognize as an outstanding reviewer Stergios

Leventis. Stergios is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the International Hellenic University,

Greece, and a senior research fellow at Aston Business School, UK. He has a PhD in accounting

from the University of Strathclyde. Stergios handled seven manuscripts in 2013, but at the same

time he maintained a remarkable average reviewer score – 3.0 – and provided remarkably fast

reviews (8 days). By providing a number of timely reviews of consistently high quality, Stergios

is contributing greatly to the quality of the review process of CGIR.

As a token of our appreciation for Krista and Stergios’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 international corporate governance scholarship. On

behalf of Wiley Blackwell and CGIR, we recognize and celebratescholars such as Krista Lewellyn

and Stergios Leventis for their service to the field.