Cross-Cultural Corporate Governance, Firm Performance and Firm Value

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of International Journal of Financial Studies is dedicated to research on the connections between corporate governance, firm performance and firm value. Corporate governance is not a new issue for finance scholars and managers, but it is a constantly evolving area. This Special Issue seeks to explore and highlight research that introduces new and innovative aspects of the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance, and which sheds light on how corporate governance will impact firm value in the future.

We seek theoretical, empirical and experimental research on the relationship between corporate governance and finance. The following list is suggestive of possible focus areas, but we are open to any and all studies that connect corporate governance and firm performance.

• Culture and corporate governance;
• Regulation and corporate governance;
• Ownership issues: state, venture, family and other;
• Cross-country comparison of governance best practices;
• Governance of digital strategies, cryptocurrency and other evolving dynamics;
• ESG and CSR as pillars or tools of corporate governance;
• Econometric and methodological approaches to studying governance.

Again, the above list is not exhaustive; we simply seek to explore what your research suggests about the current state of corporate governance and how corporate governance is likely to impact finance in the future. Please note that we will not accept papers focusing on corporate governance without relevance to financial studies. We look forward to receiving your work and seeing how it fits within this Special Issue.

Dr. Brian Bolton
Guest Editor

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