CGIR Best Reviewer Award

• Date: 01 May 2020
• Published date: 01 May 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/corg.12321

ANNOUNCEMENT

CGIR Best Reviewer Award

Corporate Governance: An International Review (CGIR) is fortunate to

have many talented and dedicated individuals who offer their time

and expertise to review for our journal. We are also fortunate to have

more than 80 dedicated and established governance scholars serving

on our Editorial Board, and over 2,000 ad hoc reviewers in our online

database. Of course, some reviewers stand out for providing consis-

tently exemplary work for the journal, and we are highly appreciative

of their efforts. Clearly, this professionalism and dedication need to

be acknowledged and celebrated.

In order to recognize some of the truly exceptional reviewers

here at CGIR, the journal offers an annual “best reviewer”award to

those individuals who truly stand out. Listed below are the previous

award winners:

2007 –Till Talaulicar, Universität Erfurt, Germany

2008 –Eduardo Schiehll, HEC Montreal, Canada

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

Ireland

2010 –Andrea Melis, University of Cagliari, Italy

Alessandro Minichilli, Bocconi University, Italy

2011 –Steven Gove, VirginiaTech University, USA

Kurt Desender, University Carlos III, Spain

2012 –Andrea Melis, University of Cagliari, Italy

Wai Ching Poon, Monash University, Malaysia

2013 –Krista Lewellyn, University of Wyoming, USA

Stergios Leventis, International Hellenic University, Greece

2014 –Jill Brown, Bentley University, USA

Gavin Nicholson, QUT Business School, Australia

2015 –Marc Van Essen, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Nikolaos Kavadis, University Carlos III, Spain

2016 –Peter Jaskiewicz, Telfer School of Management, Canada

Federica Pazzaglia, UCD School of Business, Ireland

2017 –Richard Gentry, University of Mississippi, USA

Lerong He, State University of New York, USA

2018 –Nikolaos Kavadis, University Carlos III, Spain

Steve Sauerwald, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

In 2019, we are delighted to announce that the two recipients of

our best reviewer awards are Stergios Leventis from the International

Hellenic University in Greece and Wai Ching Poon from Monash Uni-

versity, Malaysia. Both colleagues are long-standing members of our

Editorial Board and have already received this honorable award in the

past. This indicates their continued and great support of the journal

that really sets an example. Their referee reports were evaluated to

be comprehensive in scope, substantially detailed, and constructive in

tone. Remarkably, the average turnaround time of their reviews was

just about 12 days and hence far below the five weeks that we grant

to referees to submit their reviews. Clearly, this great service helps us

tremendously to provide the constructive and fast feedback to sub-

mitting authors for which CGIR is known and stands for in our

research community.

As a token of our appreciation for Stergios’and Wai Ching’s ser-

vice to the journal, we will be providing them each with a plaque, simi-

lar 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 con-

tributions to international corporate governance scholarship.

Received: 21 February 2019 Revised: 4 April 2020 Accepted: 6 April 2020

DOI: 10.1111/corg.12321

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