This conference will be a platform for sharing ideas on new trends that are currently shaping the concept of modern corporate governance. The event will focus on a variety of crucial issues of corporate governance, i.e. earnings management, corporate control, audit, executive compensation, financial reporting, disclosure and transparency issues, shareholder rights, etc. The main goal of the conference will be to investigate new outlooks and challenges of corporate governance and outline possible scenarios of its development.

The key topics will include:

Ownership structure
Mergers, acquisitions, restructuring
Bankruptcy, liquidation procedures
Corporate social responsibility and compliance
Disclosure and transparency issues
Corporate governance in family firms
Corporate governance in financial institutions
Corporate control
Earnings management
Managerial incentives
Payout/dividend policy
Financial reporting
Auditing
Board of directors’ practices
Shareholders’ rights
Shareholder activism
Corporate political involvement and corporate governance
Corruption, corporate governance and firm performance
Corporate governance and firm performance
Corporate Governance and performance of family firms
Corporate governance and performance of the global firms
International and comparative corporate governance
Executive compensation

We invite submissions of theoretical and empirical studies that advance the understanding of the areas mentioned above and any other area related to corporate governance, even if not explicitly indicated.

Please submit an extended abstract of the paper (400-1000 words) or a full paper (up to 6000 words), including the title and affiliation.