The Corporate Governance Conference 2025, organized by the BAM Corporate Governance SIG, provides a forum for academics and practitioners interested in corporate governance issues.
Conference Theme: Transformative Corporate Governance: How corporate governance has changed in response to digitalisation and technology transformation, such as AI.
Our Conference aims to encourage interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration across fields that span corporate governance, management, international business, regulations, decision sciences, and economics. We welcome empirical, methodological, and theoretical research that involves all areas of contemporary corporate governance issues. For this conference, there is special interest towards research that examines the challenges and opportunities facing corporate governance in an era of rapidly developing globalization, digitalization and technology transformation, especially, the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
Therefore, we are delighted to invite submissions on corporate governance and governance-related research that address challenges and opportunities faced by the corporate sector, as well as those that explore how corporate governance has changed in response to digitalisation and technology transformation, to ensure accountability, sustainability, and competitiveness in a rapidly changing global landscape. From managing transnational operations to addressing socio-economic disparities within organizations, submissions should highlight how the governance response is integral to shaping effective and equitable outcomes.
However, we welcome all research in various topics of governance related areas, as well as pedagogical research focused on innovative methodologies and best practices in teaching corporate governance and supervising research
Provider Information
BAM Corporate Governance Special Interest Group
Keynote Speakers
Dr Roger Barker
Dr Roger Barker has been the IoD’s Director of Policy and Corporate Governance since September 2020. He also served as Director of Corporate Governance and Professional Standards at the IoD from 2008-2016.
Dr Barker is an honorary associate at the Centre for Ethics and Law at University College London and was previously managing director of Governomics Ltd, a corporate governance advisory firm. He is also the author of numerous books and articles on corporate governance and board effectiveness.
A former investment banker, Dr Barker spent almost 15 years in equity research and senior management roles at UBS and Bank Vontobel in the UK and Switzerland. He has a doctorate from Oxford University and taught Politics at Merton College Oxford between 2005 and 2008. Until January 2020, he served as a UK member of the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels
Professor Michael Hilb
Professor Michael Hilb is the founder and owner of DBP Holding, Chair of the Board Foundation and a board member of several listed and private companies, foundations and international organizations.
Michael is Dean of the Swiss Board School and a Titular Professor at the University of Fribourg. The author and co-author of seven books and more than 50 articles teaches strategy and corporate governance at various universities in Asia and Europe.
Previously, he was a Vice President of DKSH, where he and his team built a leading, profitable digital business across Asia, and held executive positions at Roland Berger and Holcim. Michael was a Visiting Fellow at INSEAD and Harvard University and studied business at the University of Michigan, the Stockholm School of Economics and the University of St. Gallen, where he earned his MSc and PhD
Professor Aiyesha Dey
Professor Aiyesha Dey has been part of the Accounting and Management unit at the Harvard Business School (HBS) since July 2017. She started her career as an accounting faulty at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, after which she joined the accounting group at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. During the 2016–2017 academic year, she was a visiting scholar at the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, where she was involved in several policy initiatives and research. Aiyesha earned her bachelor's degree with honors in Mathematics, for which she received the National Scholar Award from the Government of India for her performance. She next completed her MBA with a specialization in Accounting and Finance in India, and continued her studies at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where she graduated with a PhD in Accounting.
Aiyesha conducts research in the areas of corporate governance, behavioral finance and financial reporting and disclosures. Her research has been featured in world-leading academic journals, such as Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Accounting Review, Management Science and Contemporary Accounting Research. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Management Science journal, and on the Editorial Advisory and Review Boards of The Accounting Review and Review of Accounting Studies.
Aiyesha teaches in the full time MBA as well as in Executive Education programs at HBS. In the MBA program, she has taught several courses including Financial Reporting and Control, Leadership and Corporate Accountability, and The Anatomy of Fraud. She has contributed to various courses in Executive Education, including the Women on Boards program, the Audit Committee program, the Senior Executive Leadership Program India, the Leading Global Businesses program, and the General Management Program.
Call for Papers
We are delighted to invite submissions on corporate governance and governance-related research that address challenges and opportunities faced by the corporate sector, as well as those that explore how corporate governance has changed in response to digitalisation and technology transformation, to ensure accountability, sustainability, and competitiveness in a rapidly changing global landscape.
From managing transnational operations to addressing socio-economic disparities within organizations, submissions should highlight how the governance response is integral to shaping effective and equitable outcomes.
We welcome submissions at various stages of development, including extended abstracts, early-stage working papers, and fully developed papers. However, we welcome all research in various topics of governance related areas, as well as pedagogical research focused on innovative methodologies and best practices in teaching corporate governance and supervising research.
In consultation with the editors and with authors' agreements, selected papers will be recommended for submission to the journals and will undergo the journal’s standard review process.
Please submit your paper by emailing Dr Maggie Xiaowen Gao: [email protected]
Key Dates:
Deadline for Submissions: Thursday 15th May 2025
Paper Status Notification: Tuesday 20th May 2025 (Notification will take place on a rolling basis)
Registration deadline for accepted authors: Friday 30th May 2025
Registration deadline for attendees: Thursday 12th June 2025
Key Dates
Key Dates:
Deadline for Submissions: Thursday 15th May 2025
Paper Status Notification: Tuesday 20th May 2025 (Notification will take place on a rolling basis)
Registration deadline for accepted authors: Friday 30th May 2025
Registration deadline for attendees: Thursday 12th June 2025
Benefits of Attendance
- Knowledge exchange
- Update with current issues of Corporate Governance
- Meet and get advice from the editors
- Opportunity for publishing research papers (including Special issue)
Supporting Journals
Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society (with a Special issue in Corporate Governance- TBC)
Journal of Applied Accounting Research
In consultation with the editors and with authors' agreements, selected papers will be recommended for submission to the journals and will undergo the journal’s standard review process.
Event Fee
BAM Member: £30
BAM Student: £20
BAM Non-Member: £60
If you are booking multiple paid events as a Non-Member, it may be cheaper for you to purchase a BAM Membership as nearly all BAM Events are free or at a discounted rate for Members.
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Contact Us
For general enquiries, please contact:
Tam Nguyen, Nottingham Trent University: [email protected]
Xiaowen Gao, University of Greenwich: [email protected]
Steven Chen, University of Liverpool: [email protected]
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any other queries.
