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NEW CHANGES TO THE GOVERNING STRUCTURE OF THE JOURNAL!
Dear colleague and friends!
We have a pleasure to introduce a new governance structure of the journal. Now we have two boards. The first is Editorial board with traditional kit of functions. In this context we made some replacements on the board. Thus, we are happy to introduce the new Editorial board members:
Christoph Kaserer
Ph.D, Professor, Department for Financial Management and Capital Markets & CEFS
Dean of the School of Business
Tech University Munich
Germany
Yupana Wiwattanakantang
PhD, Professor Center for Economic Institutions,
Institute of Economic Research,
Hitotsubashi University
Tokyo
Japan
Li Wei-An
PhD, Professor
Dean of Business School
Director of Research Center for Corporate Governance,
Nankai University
China
Raymond S Y Chan
Dr, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Accountancy & Law
Associate Director
Centre for Corporate Governance and Financial Policy
Programme Director, MSc in Corporate Governance and Directorship Programme
School of Business Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong
Rami Zeitun
Ph.D, Dr., Assistant Professor of Finance
Department of Finance and Economic
College of Business and Economics
Qatar
Robert Adamson
Executive Director
CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance and Risk Management at the Segal Graduate School of Business
500 Granville St.
Vancouver Canada
Our second step made recently is establishing an Advisory board. The main purpose of the Advisory board is developing the worldwide reputation of the journal through strategic advising to the Editorial board. In the wake of financial crisis influenced the market for academic journals too, an advise of the worldwide known experts would be valuable. The main feature of the Advisory board is an evident representation of the world leading business schools. We have Deans of leading business schools from the USA, Canada and Portugal. Their experience could not be overestimated.
The advisory board members:
Roberta Romano
Director Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and
Yale Law School
USA
Steven C. Currall
Dean Professor of Management
Graduate School of Management
University of California
USA
Daniel Shapiro
Dean Faculty of Business Administration
Lohn Foundation Professor
Simon Fraser University
Canada
Donald S. Siegel
Dean
Professor
School of Business
University at Albany, SUNY
USA
Jim Bradford
Dean
Ralph Owen Professor
Vanderbilt University
Owen Graduate School of Management
USA
Otto H. Chang
Dean Paul E. Shaffer Professor of Accounting
Richard T. Doermer School of Business and Management Sciences
Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne
USA
Robert Nachtmann
Dean Professor of Finance
Betty M. MacGuire Distinguished Professor
College of Business Administration
University of Texas at El Paso
USA
João Paulo Vieito
Dean School of Business Sciences
Polytecnhic Institute of Viana do Castelo
Portugal
Additional info on the Advisory board members and new members of the Editorial board:
Roberta Romano – Advisory mesmber
Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Director,
Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law
Yale Law School
Box 208215
New Haven, CT 06520-8215
Roberta Romano is the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. Her research has focused on state competition for corporate charters, the political economy of takeover regulation, shareholder litigation, institutional investor activism in corporate governance, and the regulation of financial instruments and securities markets. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a research associate of the National Bureau for Economic Research, and a past President of the American Law and Economics Association. She is the author of The Advantage of Competitive Federalism for Securities Regulation and The Genius of American Corporate Law and editor of Foundations of Corporate Law.
Education J.D., Yale, 1980
M.A., University of Chicago, 1975
B.A., University of Rochester, 1973
Courses Taught
Business Organizations
Colloquium on Contemporary Issues in Law and Business
Law and Finance
Law, Economics, & Organization
Steven C. Currall – Advisory member
Dean and Professor of Management
Graduate School of Management
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
USA
http://www.gsm.ucdavis.edu/
Personal: http://www.stevecurrall.com/
Teaching Field: organizational behavior, entrepreneurship
Research Expertise: organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, commercialization of new technologies, interpersonal and inter-organizational relations, joint ventures, trust and negotiation, corporate boards of directors
Steve Currall is Dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. He joined UC Davis in July 2009 after serving at the University College London and London Business School.
At University College London, Currall was Vice Dean of Enterprise; Founding Chair of the Department of Management Science and Innovation within the Faculty (School) of Engineering Sciences; Professor of Management Science and Innovation; Founder of UCL Advances, the UCL entrepreneurship center; and a member of the UCL Enterprise Board, which oversees technology commercialization activities for the college. At the London Business School, he was Visiting Professor of Organizational Behavior and Entrepreneurship and served as Faculty Co-Director of the Institute of Technology.
Currall has research and teaching experience in the areas of innovation, emerging technologies, negotiation and corporate governance. His research has been published in both management and science/engineering academic journals such as Organization Science, Nature Nanotechnology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, Industrial and Labor Relations Review and Journal of International Business Studies, among others.
Dean Currall received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics (as a Rotary International Scholar), and a B.A. (cum laude) from Baylor University.
Daniel Shapiro – Advisory member
Dean
Lohn Foundation Professor
B.A. (Calgary), M.A., Ph.D. (Cornell)
Burnaby Phone: 778-782-4183
Surrey Phone: 778-782-5135
Segal Phone: 778-782-5155
Burnaby Office: WMC 5310
Surrey Office: SUR 5018
Segal Office: Segal 4235
Email Address: dshapiro@sfu.ca
Specialization and Research Interests
Competitive Analysis and Strategy, International and Comparative Business, Managerial and Industrial Economics, Business and Governmen
Dr. Donald S. Siegel – Advisory member
Dean and Professor
School of Business
University at Albany, SUNY
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
Tel: (518) 442-4910
Fax: (518) 442-4975
DSiegel@uamail.albany.edu
Otto H. Chang, Ph.D., CPA
Paul E. Shaffer Professor of Accounting
Dean, Richard T. Doermer School of Business and Management Sciences
Neff Hall, Room 360 B
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.
Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499
Phone: 260-481-0219
Fax: 260-481-6879
Robert Nachtmann,
Dean
Professor of Finance
Betty M. MacGuire Distinguished Professor
College of Business Administration
University of Texas at El Paso
USA
Research interests
International Capital Market Efficiency and Integration; Investor Wealth Effects of Corporate Events and Managerial Decisions; The Causes And Consequences of Institutional and Regulatory Constraints on Corporate and Financial Security Performance; Corporate Restructuring Under Conditions of Financial Distress
João Paulo Vieito – Advisory member
Dean
School of Business Sciences
Polytecnhic Institute of Viana do Castelo
Portugal
Robert Adamson
Executive Director
CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance and Risk Management at the Segal Graduate School of Business
500 Granville St.
Vancouver CANADA V6B 5K3
T 778.782.5267
F 778.782.5122
radamson@sfu.ca
Robert is the Executive Director of the CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance and Risk Management at the Segal Graduate School of Business where he is responsible for program development, management and research.
Robert has worked for international law firms, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and consulting firms in Canada, the United States, Southeast Asia and Europe. Most recently, Robert was the Director of the International Justice Programme at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia. Robert also recently worked with the Shareholders Association for Research and Education (SHARE) on issues including institutional investment principles, corporate responsibility and corporate governance.
Robert's current research addresses the regulation of risk associated with corporate activity in transnational multi-jurisdictional settings. More generally, Robert's areas of research and work include international corporate governance, corporate regulation, risk regulation and risk management.
Dr. Rami Zeitun, PhD
Assistant Professor of Finance
Department of Finance and Economic
College of Business and Economics
University of Qatar
P.O. Box 2713
Doha, Qatar
Area of Interest and Research
- Investment Planning & Analysis
- Capital Structure
- Emerging Stock Markets
- Corporate Governance
Prof. Christoph Kaserer
Department for Financial Management and Capital Markets & CEFS
Dean of the School of Business
Tech University Munich
Arcisstr. 21
D-80290 München
Germany
Tel. ++49/89/289-25489
Fax ++49/89/289-25488
Mobile&Tel&Fax (global number): +49/(0)7000-5273737
Mobile: +49/(0)162-2918349
Skype: kasererc
mailto:christoph.kaserer@wi.tum.de
http://www.prof-kaserer.org
Courses: Managerial Finance
Yupana Wiwattanakantang
PhD, Professor
Center for Economic Institutions,
Institute of Economic Research,
Hitotsubashi University
2-1 Naka, Kunitachi, Tokyo 186-8603 JAPAN
Education
1988 - B.A. (Economics) Thammasat Univeristy (Thailand)
1991 - M.A. (Economics) Thammasat Univeristy (Thailand)
1995 - M.A. (Economics) Hitotsubashi University
2000 - Dr. (Economics) Hitotsubashi University
Positions held
1991 - Joined the Siam Commercial Bank, Head Office, Thailand
2001-2003 - Visiting Associate Professor, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
2003 - Associate Professor, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
2008 - Professor, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Current research projects
Currently, I have focused on the following three important corporate governance issues: How family firms evolve over time; the succession or CEO transition decision of family firms; and the effects of political influence by established families who own business empires on public policies and institutional development. As part of my research, I am working on constructing a number of original datasets. Datasets include the ownership and board structure of firms and banks in Thailand covering the period 1994-2003, the ownership and board structure of Japanese banks and family firms covering the period 1950-2003.
Dr. CHAN, S Y Raymond
BBA Hons, MBA, MScIS, MScAppMath, PhD, CG Certificate Harvard, FCCA, CPA, CCP
Associate Professor
Department of Accountancy & Law
Associate Director
Centre for Corporate Governance and Financial Policy
Programme Director, MSc in Corporate Governance and Directorship Programme
School of Business raychan@hkbu.edu.hk
Research Interests:
Financial Accounting, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance
Teaching Areas:
Financial Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, Corporate Governance
Professional Affiliations and Community Service:
Certified Computing Professional, Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals, the USA
Fellow, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the UK
Certified Public Accountant, Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Ex-Council Member and Vice-President of Hong Kong Academic Accounting Association
Council Member, the Hong Kong Corporate Governance Council
Ex-SMEs Consultant of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council
Council Member, Hwa Sing Table Tennis Club
Ex-Chairman of the Audit Committee and an Independent Non-executive Director of a Company Listed in Hong Kong (2000-2002)
Accountant Ambassador of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants
The External Examiner of Diploma in Professional Accounting, Hong Kong Christian Service Kwun Tong Vocational Training Centre
Jim Bradford – Advisory board
Dean & Ralph Owen Professor
Vanderbilt University
Owen Graduate School of Management
401 21t Avenue South
Nashville, Tn 37203
615 322 2316 (w)
Jim.Bradford@owen.vanderbilt.edu
http://www.owen.vanderbilt.edu
Subject Area(s): Strategy and Business Economics
James W. (Jim) Bradford is dean of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, and also serves as the Ralph Owen Professor for the Practice of Management. He was appointed dean in March 2005 after serving as acting dean for nine months. Since joining Owen in 2002, he has also served as clinical assistant professor of management and associate dean of corporate relations.
During his tenure as dean, Bradford has spearheaded the development and launch of four innovative, market-driven and immersion-based programs at Owen, including the Health Care MBA, master’s degrees in finance and accountancy, and Accelerator, a 30-day summer intensive for highly qualified undergraduates. In 2006, he established a Board of Visitors comprised of leading corporate executives to further strengthen Owen’s connection and relevance to the national and international business communities, and has formed additional advisory boards for the health care and accountancy degree programs. He also teaches courses in business strategy to Owen MBA and Executive MBA students, and his leadership has resulted in a more than 300 percent increase in annual giving to date.
An experienced corporate executive, Bradford previously served as president and CEO of United Glass Corporation and AFG Industries Inc., North America’s largest vertically integrated glass manufacturing and fabrication company. Prior, he served as AFG’s general counsel and spent 11 years in private law practice. Bradford earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Florida and his law degree from Vanderbilt. He completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School in 1997.
He currently serves on the board of directors for several leading companies and organizations, including CLARCOR Inc. (Corporate Governance, and Compensation and Stock Options Committees); Genesco (Finance and Governance Committees); Granite Construction, one of Fortune’s 100 best companies to work for in 2007 (Audit Committee and Chair of Strategic Planning Committee); and the Graduate Management Admissions Council. He also serves on Advisory Boards at Harpeth Capital (Investment Banking) and the Nashville Health Care Council. An ex-officio board member of the Nashville Health Care Council, Bradford is active in the Nashville Chamber of Commerce’s Partnership 2010, a regional economic development initiative, and is a candidate for Leadership Nashville, an independent executive leadership program for community leaders.
