Corporate Governance SIG Conference 2024

The 2024 BAM Corporate Governance SIG Conference is pleased to invite submissions in all areas of corporate governance, particularly on themes related to sustainability and resilience addressing new business opportunities and disruptive challenges.

Conference Theme:
Sustainable Governance: Addressing SDG goals in the 21st Century

Governing managerial decision-making and the implementation of sustainable practices is crucial for the survival of civilisation as we know it. With the business environment further complicated by global political and economic disruption, how governance should serve the shareholders as well as wider stakeholders’ interests challenges our traditional thinking and calls for new theoretical insights and research findings.

The World Economic Forum issued a manifesto requiring companies to develop the concept of “stakeholder capitalism”, exhorting the corporate sector to undertake responsible business practices. It is imperative for corporations to safeguard the wellbeing of employees and ensure the continuity and security of shared commercial practices, while keeping the supply of consumer goods stable by guaranteeing fair prices and equitable contractual terms in supply chains.

Therefore, sustainable governance mechanisms are crucial for the protection of stakeholders, the conduct of responsible business practices, and the creation of an equal and inclusive society. Yet, companies are frequently accused of greenwashing and making specious claims of their commitment to sustainability and corporate responsibilities.

Recently, the Financial Reporting Council published a new Corporate Governance Code, stressing the importance of internal control and calling for greater transparency concerning how organisations are controlled and governed by their managers.

The achievement of these ambitious objectives poses innumerable research questions for scholars to address. Therefore, against this complex and nuanced background, this conference calls for submissions of research investigating all areas of corporate governance, and in particular, imaginative and original papers that address, inter alia, the urgent issues and themes described above.

We particularly welcome submissions from early career researchers and PhD researchers. The conference will feature a keynote speech and presentations by leading scholars in the field of corporate governance; parallel sessions; and a discussion on ‘Challenges to Research and Publications’.

The conference will bring together academics, professionals and industrial leaders to engage in meaningful debate to stimulate tangible changes in sustainable corporate governance practices.