Corporate Governance: An International Review

• Published date: 01 July 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/corg.12335
• Date: 01 July 2020

CALL FOR ISSUE PROPOSALS

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Call for Special Issue Proposals

Deadline for Submissions of Proposals: August 1, 2020

Corporate Governance: An International Review invites proposals

for special issues that focus on a specific area of research that has

broad appeal and fits with the aims and scope of the journal. The mis-

sion of CGIR is to publish cutting-edge international business research

on the phenomena of corporate governance throughout the global

economy. We define corporate governance broadly as the exercise of

power over corporate entities so as to increase the value provided to

the organization’s various stakeholders, as well as making those stake-

holders accountable for acting responsibly with regard to the protec-

tion, generation, and distribution of wealth invested in the firm.

Special issue subjects have to be broad enough to attract general

interest and sufficiently focused to be dealt within a single issue. In

general, special issues should avoid a too narrow geographic focus

and be open to contributions with various disciplinary framings,

methods or levels of analysis. Special issues have to be the outcome

of an open call for papers and must not be restricted to scholars who

can attend a particular conference. Nonetheless, offering a paper

development workshop for submitted manuscripts or revised submis-

sions could be helpful (but is not necessary) in increasing the quality

of contributions and meeting the high standards of CGIR that accepts

about 5% of all submissions.

Proposals of special issues have to be emailed to CGIR@wiley.

com by August 1, 2020, indicating “CGIR Special Issue Proposal”in

the header of the email. The proposal needs to include:

1 A draft call for papers including the (provisional) title of the special

issue and outlining its subject, relevance and novelty, as well as the

scope of articles sought for (including potential subthemes to be

addressed in the special issue);

2 Short CVs of the proposed Guest Editors (including contact infor-

mation, major publications and editorial experience);

3 A 2-page statement outlining the state of research in the area and

justifying why the special issue is needed and how is expected to

entail theoretical, practical and policy implications as well as to

attract a wide audience (ideally from various geographic areas and

disciplines);

4 A proposed timeline for each stage of editing and publishing the

special issue;

5 A list of scholars (including email addresses) who may be interested

in submitting to, or reviewing for, the special issue.

Proposals will be evaluated with regard to the following criteria:

•Fit of the subject with the scope of CGIR;

•Potential to attract high-quality submissions;

•Relevance and novelty of the topic;

•Incorporation of relevant literatures;

•Projected theoretical, practical and policy implications;

•Attractiveness to a wide readership;

•Outlined organization of the editorial process;

•Overall significance of intended contribution.

Final decisions on proposals will be made by September 1, 2020.

Authors of selected proposals will be invited to submit a full call for

papers of their special issue by October 1, 2020. Submissions to the

special issue will be made through the CGIR Manuscript Central

website and be subject to the CGIR standard double-blind reviewing

process. Guest Editors have to provide an editorial introduction to the

special issue but should refrain from being involved in any regular sub-

mission to the special issue.

For queries about this call for proposals, please feel free to con-

tact the CGIR Editors-in-Chief, Konstantinos Stathopoulos (k.

stathopoulos@manchester.ac.uk) or Till Talaulicar (till.talaulicar@uni-

erfurt.de), or the editorial office of the journal (cgir@wiley.com).

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

DOI: 10.1111/corg.12335

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