Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The journal’s scope includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

  • Board structure, composition, and effectiveness
  • Board diversity, independence, and leadership
  • Ownership structure and shareholder rights
  • Financial and non-financial disclosure
  • Governance regulation, enforcement, and oversight
  • Corporate ethics, accountability, and misconduct
  • Internal control, risk management, and audit governance
  • Stakeholder engagement and shareholder activism
  • Governance of small, family, and nonprofit organizations
  • Sustainability governance and corporate social responsibility

The journal prioritizes studies that examine governance mechanisms and their consequences for organizational accountability, performance, and stakeholder relations. Manuscripts should make a clear contribution to corporate governance scholarship and engage with relevant theoretical or empirical literature.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The journal uses double-anonymized peer-reviewed system for peer-review. The manuscript will be peer-reviewed by at least two independent external reviewers with relevant expertise.

 

Publication Frequency

Annual, published in November

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Special Issue Proposals

To foster academic collaboration and advance scholarly research, we welcome special issue proposals from scholars, researchers, and academic or research institutions. Those interested in organizing a special issue are invited to submit their inquiries and proposals to the journal’s editorial office via email: jcgr@macrothink.org