Corporate Governance, Accountability and Disclosure

Dear Colleagues,

The increased competition, financing constraints, and market reforms in the public and private sectors in recent years have increased pressures on private and public sector institutions to demonstrate greater accountability, transparency, good governance, and sound financial and risk management to various groups of stakeholders (e.g., governments, tax payers, providers of finance, and the wider community) in order to maintain sustainable operations. Despite the increasing demand for greater accountability, transparency, and sound governance and risk management, and the significant changes in and reforms to private and public sectors, including changes in government policies and the funding landscape due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been limited research investigating issues relating to accountability, governance, risk management, and disclosure among private sector institutions in general and public sector institutions in particular.

In this Special Issue, we are interested in bringing together rigorous manuscripts that advance accountability, governance, and disclosure research. We invite manuscripts featuring original research that complements our understanding of the impact of new reforms and challenges, including introduction of New Public Management (NPM), significant cuts to public funding, and the COVID-19 pandemic on issues relating to accountability, governance, risk management, and disclosure among private and public sector institutions.

We welcome submissions that address the following research areas:

• governance and risk management disclosure practices;
• social and environmental accountability disclosure practices;
• anticorruption polices and voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure practices;
• CSR disclosure/performance and tax avoidance;
• internal governance mechanisms (e.g., governing board and committees) and voluntary disclosure practices;
• external governance mechanisms (e.g., government bodies, institutional investors, auditors, and labour unions) and voluntary disclosure practices;
• the impact of new reforms and challenges (e.g., introduction of New Public Management (NPM), significant cuts to public funding, and the COVID-19 pandemic) on voluntary public accountability disclosure practices;
• governing board diversity, accountability, and disclosure;
• corporate governance structures and executive pay; and
• corporate governance structures and financial/non-financial performance.

We are interested in conceptual, theoretical, methodological, empirical, and systematic review studies. We would like to stress that the above list is merely indicative rather than exhaustive, and, thus, we welcome submissions on other topics relating to accountability, governance, risk management, and voluntary disclosures.

Dr. Mohamed H. Elmagrhi
Dr. Erhan Kilinçarslan
Guest Editors

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