New Corporate Governance Conferences

EVENT 1

GIRA 2010
Corporate Governance, Innovation, Social and Environmental Responsibility

Responding to the Challenges of a Changing World

GLOBAL CONFERENCE

CALL FOR PAPERS

September 09th – 10th 2010
ISCTE-IUL
Av. das Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal

DETAILS (in PDF format)

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2009, São Paulo, Brazil
Submission Deadline: January 12th, 2009
Sponsoring and Organizing Institutions

• The Global Corporate Governance Forum (GCGF)
• Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School in São Paulo (Direito GV)
• Coppead Graduate Business School at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Coppead)

Endorsing Institutions

• The International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)
• The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, Yale School of Management
• The Asian Institute of Corporate Governance (AICG), Korea University
• The Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC)
• The Center for Enterprise Governance (Chile)
• Sabanci University - Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey (SU-CGFT)

Organizing Committee

• Ricardo P. C. Leal, chair, Coppead Graduate School of Business, UFRJ
• Érica Gorga, chair, Direito GV and Cornell Law School
• Melsa Ararat, Sabanci University, GCGF
• Stijn Claessens, Amsterdam University, IMF
• Burcin Yurtoglu, University of Vienna

Scientific Committee 

• Franklin Allen, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Bernard Black, Law School and McCombs School of Business, University of Texas
• Brian Cheffins, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
• Stijn Claessens, University of Amsterdam and IMF
• Simon Deakin, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
• Joseph P. H. Fan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Ronald Gilson, Stanford Law School, Columbia Law School, and ECGI
• Érica Gorga, Direito GV and Cornell Law School
• Sergei Guriev, New Economic School, Russia
• Hasung Jang, Korea University and AICG
• Jonathan Koppell, Millstein Center and Yale University
• Reinier Kraakman, Harvard Law School and ECGI
• Ricardo Leal, The Coppead Graduate School of Business, UFRJ
• Fernando Lefort, Faculty of Business and Economics, PUC-Chile
• Amir N. Licht, Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel
• Randall Morck, School of Business, University of Alberta
• Kyung Suh Park, Korea University and AICG
• Enrico Perotti, University of Amsterdam
• Katharina Pistor, Columbia Law School
• Mark Roe, Harvard Law School
• Roberta Romano, Yale Law School

Submission
The submission deadline is January 12th, 2009. Accepted papers will be announced by February 23rd. See the topics that are specially encouraged below.
The submission guidelines are:

• Send your submission to cgem2009@coppead.ufrj.br.    
• Include the title and all the information for each author on a cover page.
• Start your paper on the second page with the title and an abstract with no identification of the authors on the second page and in the remainder of the paper.
• There are no page limits, but please use your good judgement.
• The preferred file format is pdf but doc files are also acceptable. 
• We only accept full papers. No abstracts or Powerpoint presentations please. 
• We only accept unplublished papers. 
• All papers must be in English. 

Travel and Lodging
Reasonable economy class travel expenses for one presenter for each  accepted paper will be reimbursed by the organizing institutions sometime after the conference. Lodging expenses for one presenter of each accepted paper will also be covered by the Organizing Institutions at the conference indicated hotels and room category. There is no registration fee for one presenter of each accepted paper and some meals are included during the conference. The hotel will probably include breakfast (TBC). The organizers will select hotels at a walking distance from the conference venue. Any other expenses, such as  premium airline tickets or non-direct itineraries and transportation in São Paulo will not be covered. See more information about Brazil and about São Paulo on Wikitravel. 
Visa: Those traveling to Brazil for participation as an attendee or speaker (not paid in Brazil) in scientific or scholar conferences and seminars are considered tourists.
The visa is necessary for citizens of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, China, Hong Kong, India, Russia, and all countries that are not in the list of tourist visa exemptions here. The visa must be obtained through a Brazilian consulate before departure to Brazil. Visas cannot be obtained at the port of entry. Please consult a list of Brazilian embassies and consulates here to ascertain your visa situation at least one month before departure. Your passport will need to be valid for at least six additional months on the day of entry into Brazil. Visitors without the proper visas and passport validity may be denied boarding by the airline or entry by the Brazilian immigration authorities.
The visa is not necessary for citizens of the following countries: all European Union countries, all South American countries, Croatia, Israel, Malaysia, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey,  and of many, but not all, Central American and Caribbean countries, and a few additional countries. As this list may change, please see an official list of tourist visa exemptions here. Your passport will need to be valid for at least six additional months on the day of entry into Brazil.
Vaccination: The Brazilian government requires that visitors that have been in countries that present a risk of yellow fever transmission 90 days before traveling to Brazil take a yellow fever vaccination. These countries are most of the African countries, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. See a World Health Organization list here. The Brazilian government recommends, but does not require, that visitors that plan to go to the Amazon (lots of trees) or the Pantanal (lots of animals) regions in northern and western Brazil take a yellow fever vaccination at least 10 days before their departure so their vaccines are effective. For visitors that are going to remain in northeastern, southeastern and southern Brazil, this is not necessary (São Paulo, Rio, Salvador, Recife etc).
Conference venue
At Fundação Getulio Vargas facilities in the Bela Vista neighborhood, central São Paulo, near Avenida Paulista. The plenary sessions will be at Auditório Itaú at Avenida 9 de Julho, 2029 and the paper sessions at Direito GV facilities at Rua Rocha, 233.
Conference Outline and Topics
The conference aims to facilitate dissemination of state of the art research on corporate governance in emerging markets, with the objective of supporting policy and practice development. To this end, the conference will provide a forum to discuss the ongoing research on corporate governance in emerging markets and to solicit ideas from both theory and policy perspectives as to how to further improve corporate governance research. The conference will also provide an opportunity to inquire how academic research findings relate to practice in emerging markets by having leading practitioners as discussants.
The conference particularly welcomes comparative research comprising clusters of developing countries sharing institutional or macroeconomic similarities. Clusters may be comprised of countries that are geographically distant such as the BRIC or countries with similar corporate governance reform approaches. Papers are expected to be in the law, economics and finance fields but the conference welcomes papers from a variety of disciplines such as sociology, organizational science, and management. Both theoretical and empirical papers, as well as clinical studies, are welcome. Researchers from emerging market institutions are strongly encouraged to participate.
The conference is expected to provide new thinking and new approaches to Corporate Governance research in emerging markets. Papers on the following topics are especially encouraged:
(1) Dynamic aspects of ownership and control structures, addressing questions like: How do developments in the institutional framework of countries (legal, economic, and political) relate to ownership structures and ownership concentration? What are the dynamics of ownership structures in emerging markets over long time spans and how do they relate to changes in corporate governance institutions and frameworks? What are the effects of regulations or laws that force dilution of concentrated ownership or dismantling of business groups in emerging markets?
(2) Inside the Emerging Market Companies, addressing questions like: How does family ownership shape the short- and long-run aspects of management and business strategy of emerging market companies? How do emerging market companies manage the succession of founding owners? How do cultural, legal and institutional factors such as family values, inheritance structures or marriage norms influence these choices? What are the interactions between family preferences and formal institutions within and across countries?
(3) The role of external and voluntary mechanisms of governance. This topic includes research on governance mechanisms that are likely to shape the contracting environment of inside owners in emerging markets. Issues related to the Product (and factor) Market Competition, Managerial Labor Market, Executive Compensation, the Market for Corporate Control can all act as such mechanisms. There are also voluntary mechanisms of governance such as cross-listings, adopting internationally recognized accounting standards, hiring reputable auditors and adoptions of codes of governance, etc. Both theoretical and empirical work in this area, including cross-country and single country empirical studies are welcome.
(4) The role of stakeholders in emerging markets and sustainable development, addressing questions like: Should the objective of an emerging market firm be the maximization of shareholder value? Is a broader perspective, including social objectives, more useful in emerging markets given various distortions, concentration of power and institutional weaknesses? How is this perspective reflected in the relationships to employees, input suppliers and broadly defined stakeholders?
(5) Corporate governance and enforcement mechanisms in emerging markets, addressing questions like: What is the nature and means of misuse of private benefits of control in emerging markets? What legal and economic strategies can minimize minority rights expropriation and reduce private benefits? Can reputation and trust effectively substitute for strong shareholder rights? Can employee monitoring partially substitute for weak market forces? Are factor and product markets more important than corporate governance mechanisms in affecting management and governance of companies in emerging countries? How can private enforcement mechanisms be encouraged and made more effective? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using firm-level corporate governance indicators? Which governance indicators are most meaningful in emerging markets?