Recent Evidence and Insights on Corporate Governance From Around the Globe

• Published date: 01 July 2024
• Author: Konstantinos Stathopoulos,Till Talaulicar
• Date: 01 July 2024
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/corg.12606

Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2024; 32:595–599.

https://doi.org/10.1111/corg.12606

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Corporate Governance: An International Review

EDITORIAL

Recent Evidence and Insights on Corporate Governance

From Around the Globe

Konstanti nosStathopou los1 | TillTalaul icar2

1The University of Manches ter, Manchester, UK | 2Universit y of Erfurt, Er furt, Germany

Correspondence: Ti ll Talaulicar (till.talaulicar@uni-erfurt.de)

1 | Introduction and Overview

The purpose of this ed itorial is to report on Corpor ate

Governance: An International Review's (CGIR) content and ed-

itorial performance duri ng 2023, that is, its 31st volume since

the establishment of the journal in 1993. It remai ns the mission

of the journal to publish cutting- edge international business re-

search on the phenomen a of comparative corpo rate governance

throughout the global economy with our ultimate goal t o con-

tribute to a rigorous and relevant global theor y of corporate gov-

ernance. Our last year 's performance indicates that this mission

is widely shared within t he corporate governance communit y,

and we are grateful to a ll colleagues who supported the journal

in various roles such as in the editoria l team, as ad hoc review-

ers, submitti ng authors or interested reader s.

Regarding origin al submissions, 2023 was a record year for the

journal with a total of 746 re ceived manuscripts (compared to

633 in 2022 and 536 in 2021). This number even exc eeds our

prior—largely cor ona- driven—ma ximum number of s ubmis-

sions in the year 2020 when we rec eived 688 manuscripts.

Despite this increased load , the global community of corporate

governance scholars supporting t he journal helped sustain the

efficient, timely, and friendly manner of our rev iewing process.

We are grateful to our editors, ed itorial board members, and

reviewers for their excellent serv ice to corporate governance

scholarship. We provide more metrics about key turnaround

times in Section4 of this ed itorial.

Volume 31 contains six issues with 42 original a rticles. Each

issue is led by an “Editor's Pick” art icle—a new category that

had been initiated in volume 29— and highlights ar ticles that

we feel are pertinent to the journal 's aims, that is, to publish

research on corporate governa nce that is rigorously conducted

and relevant to influence the pract ice of corporate governance

throughout the world. The “Editor's Pick” articles of volume 31

are succinctly outlined in Se ction2.

Issue 1 includes also a focused issue of f ive review articles. They

deal with a broad range of intrig uing subjects such as map-

ping the corporate governance s cholarship (Pandey, Andres,

and Kumar2023), remuneration reforms in the ban king sector

(Zalews ka 2023), synthesizing the board- strategy relationship

(Bezemer et al. 2023), a nd sustainable corporate govern ance

(Kavadi s and Thomsen2023) as well as antecedents of top man-

agement team and board gender diversity (Yao2023).

Another focused issue is published in I ssue 5 that is dedicated

to corporate governance mechan isms in light of the COVID- 19

crisis. In an exten sive commentary, Bonacchi et al.(2023) out-

line novel res earch questions and methodolog ical opportunitie s

with regard to governance mecha nisms, accounting regulation,

and corporate disclosure in t he aftermath of COVID- 19. Fabrizi

et al. (2023) provide evidence from the COVID- 19 pandemic

about the infor mativeness of ear nings announcement s.

It is a long CGIR tradition to recogniz e the best papers published

in a particular volume as well a s the most dedicated referees in

a specific year. Sect ion 3 offers details on these awards and the

selection processes behind them. We are indebted to the mem-

bers of our Advisory B oard for their continuous support of the

journal in general and the best paper selection proce ss in partic-

ular. Above all, we are g rateful to all authors for submitting their

academic work to CGIR.

Given our aim to generate and, importantly, dissem inate policy-

and practice- releva nt knowledge that is produced using cutting-

edge research methods and is in formed by sound theory, we are

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