2015 Best Reviewer Awards for CGIR

• Published date: 01 July 2016
• Date: 01 July 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/corg.12168

2015 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 more than 60 dedicated and established governance scholars serving on

our editorialreview board, and over 2,000 ad hoc reviewersin our online database. Of course,some

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

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

free subscriptionto the journal and a listing on our masthead for those who serve on our editorial

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

In order to recognize some of the truly exceptional reviewershere at CGIR, the journal conducts

an annual “best reviewer”awardin order to recognize those individuals who truly standout. Our

policy is of not repeating winners in a 3-year period as we would like to enlarge the number of

scholars which 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, 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

2013 –Krista Lewellyn, PhD, University of Wyoming, USA

Stergios Leventis, PhD, International Hellenic University, Greece

2014 –Jill Brown, PhD, Bentley University, USA

Gavin Nicholson, PhD, QUT Business School, Australia

In 2015, we are pleased to announce thatMarc Van Essen is one of thetwo reviewers recognized

for their contributions to our journal. Marc is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the

University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Marc received a PhD in Management at the Erasmus

University of Rotterdam and held a previous position at the University of South Carolina.

His contribution to the journal has been invaluable as he has provided a high number of quality

and timely (with an average of about 23 days) reviews. In 2015, Marc handled 9 manuscripts and

earned an average reviewer score of 2.6 out of 3.0. Importantly, Marc’s provided extensive and

constructive review comments aimed at supporting the development of papers.

In addition to Marc, we would also like to recognize as an outstanding reviewer Nikolaos

Kavadis. Nikolaosis an Assistant Professor of Management at the University Carlos III of Madrid,

Spain. He has a PhD in Management from HEC Paris and held a previous position at Erasmus.

Nikolaos handled 8 manuscripts in 2015 and maintained a remarkable average reviewer

score –2.875 –keeping a low turnaround time (less than 20 days). By providing timely and high

quality reviews, Nikolaos contributed signif‌icantly to the editorial review process of CGIR.

As a token of our appreciation for Marc’s and Nikolaos’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 hoursof extraordinary service to thejournal, it is a tangible symbolof their generous

and professional contributions to international corporate governance scholarship. On behalf of

Wiley-Blackwell and CGIR, we recognize and celebrate scholars such as Marc Van Essen and

Nikolaos Kavadis for their service to the f‌ield.

© 2016 JohnWiley & Sons Ltd

doi:10.1111/corg.12168

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