Incoming editorial

• Published date: 01 January 2019
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/corg.12269
• Date: 01 January 2019

EDITORIAL

Incoming editorial

1|INTRODUCTION

We are truly excited and humbled by the challenge that lies ahead. We

assume the role of Editors‐in‐Chief (EICs) of Corporate Governance: An

International Review (CGIR) with a great sense of responsibility.

Undoubtedly, after a publicationhistory of more than a quarter of a cen-

tury, CGIR is now considered the premier academic outlet for global,

interdisciplinary, and cutting‐edge corporate governance research. As

stewards of the journal, we will strive to maintain its reputation for pub-

lishing interesting, relevant, and rigorous research and to enhance its

significance to the global corporate governance community.

This transition finds the journal in rude health. Under the expert

stewardship of the departing EICs, Praveen Kumar and Alessandro

Zattoni, the journal has preserved the high number of original manu-

script submissions and its impact factor has reached new heights.

Importantly, these successes were achieved with absolute integrity

and respect for the reviewing process. We are determined to preserve

this ethos during our tenure and repay the trust shown to the journal

by the corporate governance community by publishing exciting and

innovative academic work.

We take this opportunity to communicate our priorities as well as

important information about the journal's processes.

2|AIMS AND SCOPE

We strongly feel that the reported aims and scope on the journal's

website still reflect the core of what the journal should try to achieve.

In particular:

a. The focus on insightful and robust work examining corporate gov-

ernance matters at a global level will remain unabated. We encour-

age both comparative and single jurisdiction studies as long as they

clearly provide new insights and advance our knowledge in a mean-

ingful way. We have no preferences over particular jurisdictions;

CGIR under our stewardship will stay true to its goal to explain

and analyse corporate governance at the global level.

b. We are keen to receive more studies that centre on a broad

definition of corporate governance that takes into account the

needs and obligations of major stakeholders within and outside

an organisation. We feel that there is still a lot to learn in this

research area and there is a clear need for both significant

theoretical advances and ground‐breaking empirical evidence.

c. CGIR will continue to be a truly interdisciplinary journal that wishes

to remain relevant to scholars coming from a wide range of disci-

plines such as accounting, economics, finance, law, management,

sociology, and political science. We will never limit our perspective

to any particular theory or methodological paradigm.

d. We wish to publish work that has significant implications to cor-

porate governance practitioners and can influence policy making.

We are committed to reinforcing the journal's reported aim of

becoming the knowledge centre for consultants, practitioners,

and public policy makers engaged with corporate governance

throughout the world.

3|EDITORS AND EDITORIAL BOARD

CGIR is lucky to receive so much support from top corporate gover-

nance scholars from around the world. Without the expert advice

and work ethic of its editors and editorial board members, it couldn't

remain effective in pursuing its mission and wouldn't be able to

enhance further its reputation as the premier outlet for corporate gov-

ernance research. The CGIR family is large, but we plan to grow it fur-

ther. We are very excited with the new colleagues who have just

joined the team and plan on bringing in more top scholars who are

keen to contribute to the journal. We estimate that once we have

about 20 Editors and 80 Editorial Board members, workloads will be

more manageable and more fairly distributed.

After holding discussions with the publisher, we decided to

change the title of the journal's “Associate Editors”to “Editors,”effec-

tive immediately. Even though final decisions over manuscripts rest

with the EICs, we believe it is important to acknowledge the expert

handling of the review process by our Editors and their significance

in this process. We believe that the title change properly reflects this.

Furthermore, we have decided to rename the “Editorial Review Board”

to “Editorial Board.”We don't feel that the great pool of talent and

expert knowledge in this board should be only available to us for

reviewing purposes. We strongly encourage the top scholars who

are members of this board to share with us their suggestions on oper-

ational and strategic matters relating to the journal.

4|REVIEW PROCESS

We consider the review of manuscripts to be the cornerstone of

everything we do at CGIR and the process that guarantees the

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