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PhD Pre-Conference Workshop on “Challenges in Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies”

  • 1.  PhD Pre-Conference Workshop on “Challenges in Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies”

    Posted 10-06-2015 07:12

    Call for Papers

     

    Pre-Conference PhD Workshop on
    "Challenges in Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies"

     

    Date and Venue

    December 3, 2015

    University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, UK, EH8 9JS

    Conference Link: http://edinburghforum.weebly.com

     

    Submission Deadline

    October 15, 2015

     

     

    A Corporate Governance: An International Review Special Issue Conference will take place at the University of Edinburgh Business School on December 4-5, 2015. Prior to this CGIR conference, there will be a pre-conference workshop for PhD students on December 3, 2015.

     

    The scientific committee invites submissions from PhD students for the workshop. PhD students who are interested to present and discuss their research in this workshop are invited to submit their research papers to Tinghua Duan (t.duan-2@sms.ed.ac.uk) by October 15, 2015. The leading authors of submitted papers need to be (late-stage) PhD candidates. Notification of acceptance to the pre-conference workshop will be made by November 1, 2015. Presenters are also welcome to the CGIR conference on December 4-5, 2015. There will be no registration fee. Conference materials, as well as meals and refreshments will be provided free of charge, but participants will be responsible for making their own travel and accommodation arrangements.

     

    Specific topics on corporate governance challenges in emerging economies include, but are not limited to:

     

    Comparisons between emerging and developed economies

    The role of institutions and national business systems in corporate governance

    Convergence towards best practices versus path-dependence

    Complementarities and substitution among governance mechanisms at different levels

    Regulatory framework, market development and investor protection

    Ownership and control structures and their dynamic evolution

    Institutional voids and governance in business groups

    The family-centric governance model and its organizational effects

    The governance of financial institutions and institutional investors

    The governance implications of corruption and bribery

    The role of political connections and relational contracting in governance

    The governance roles of reputation and culture

    The integrity of executives, responsible leadership and business ethics

    State corporatism and the role of the state as a shareholder

    Law, regulation and enforcement

     

    Timeline

    PhD workshop submission deadline

    October 15, 2015

    Notification of acceptance to the workshop

    November 1, 2015

    Pre-conference workshop

    December 3, 2015

    CGIR conference

    December 4-5, 2015

     

     

    Scientific committee                          

    Joseph Fan, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Seth Armitage and Wenxuan Hou, University of Edinburgh Business School; Till Talaulicar, University of Erfurt; Li Jin, University of Oxford and Peking University; Subrata Sarkar, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

     

    Organizing committee

    Tinghua Duan (Chair, t.duan-2@sms.ed.ac.uk), Jiafu An, Weiwei Cai, Susan Keatinge, Cong Wang, University of Edinburgh

     






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