Corporate Governance and Business Conference 2011

Overview of the Conference

The recent financial crisis has created an impression, rightly or wrongly, of a wholesale failure in corporate governance. Considerable debate has ensued and various practitioners, policy makers and theorists have endeavoured to discover whether this is symptomatic of broader problems or the result of inadequacies in the regulation structure of the financial system. All who wrestle with this issue are aware of the need to encourage high standards of corporate governance without endangering entrepreneurialism, innovation and wealth creation. This whole issue has thrown into sharp relief the dialogue (or lack of it) between boards and shareholders. There is clearly no room for complacency in the areas of strategy and value-creation. Companies worldwide are now suffering a whole raft of problems many of which stem from liquidity and solvency in the global banking system.

Increasingly the issue of Corporate Governance is one that warrants attention. From the American Bar Association’s Model Business Corporation Act to the Turnbull Guidance (2005) considerable momentum has been building, a momentum added to considerably by the Enron debacle.  The conference seeks to elucidate a wealth of issues related not just to Corporate Governance, but also business management and general business ethics. Contributions should therefore be of interest to scholars, practitioners and researchers in management in both developed and developing countries targeting a worldwide readership.

Subject Coverage –

Examples of topics appropriate to the Conference may include:

• Effective boardroom performance and board evaluation
• Leadership training and education
• Transparency in government procurement/operations
• Executive leadership
• Market Microstructure
• Legal safeguards and their role in Corporate Governance
• Reforming corporate reporting
• The interplay between the G4 and trade round implementation issues
• Reporting structures in business
• How trade facilitation is conceptualized and made operational in different emerging markets
• The role of the Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM)
• Accounting Disclosure Practices
• Financial Reporting
• The implementation of the "comply or explain" principle
• The role of business in society
• The incentives required to encourage more socially- and environmentally-responsible corporate action
• The role and contribution of external (non-executive) directors
• Corporate accountability in a media age
• Issues of Intellectual property rights
• Redefinitions and reassessments of corporate governance models
• Regulation and competition
• Role of International Law in business
• The role and impact of local and international regulatory bodies and regimes on corporate behaviour.
• Corporate Governance and  Corporate Social Responsibility
• Risk Management
• Earnings Quality
• Structural readjustment
• The linkage between international trade and overseas aid
• Business ethics and legal issues
• Business environment
• Business policies, strategies, and performance
• Business and retail research
• Business security and privacy issues

Important Dates

Draft submission deadline:                       31^st May 2011
Final paper submission deadline:           24^th June 2011
Publication release:                                     14^th July 2011