Posted 10/25/09
CALL FOR PAPERS
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN THE POST, POST-WORLD:
THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DEBATE
9 April 2009
Auckland, New Zealand
New Zealand Governance Centre (NZGC), a research centre in
The University of Auckland, will hold a symposium on
corporate governance on 9 April 2010, and invites
submissions from scholars and experts. The Symposium will
explore whether and how regulation can provide guidance to
private actors in promoting the responsible governance of
public corporations. Private ordering rhetoric has
dominated the discourse on corporate governance in the last
three decades. Enron and other scandals at the turn of the
century undermined the private ordering principle and led
to regulatory intervention through the Sarbanes-Oxley Act,
which has inspired similar legislation in many other
jurisdictions. The stock exchange rule in most countries
that listed companies must have a majority of independent
directors is another significant regulatory requirement.
The recent credit crisis and governance failures in the
financial sector are fresh reminders of the limitations of
private ordering. If the 1970s offered lessons about the
shortcomings of the regulatory state, as it had been tried
until then, the perils in leaving matters entirely to the
market are now equally clear. The present climate is,
arguably, more conducive for revisiting the public/private
debate in corporate governance. It may be time to move
beyond mono-dimensional approaches and the habit of
treating the public and private as mutually exclusive,
indeed antagonistic alternatives.
TOPICS:
Within the broad and overarching theme outlined above, the
areas of interest would include but are not limited to:
- Corporate governance and regulation
- Codes of governance and the experience with voluntary
self-regulation
- Revisiting the role of the shareholders
- The shareholder value mantra and its lessons
- The stakeholder principle and emerging models of
governance
- Board of directors and its functions
- "Say on pay" and the debate on executive compensation
- Capital markets and their influence on corporate
governance
- Corporate social responsibility
- Institutional investors, socially responsible investing
and corporate governance
- Convergence between corporate theory and management
theory
The papers selected for the symposium will be published
either as an edited collection by a reputed publishing
house or in a special issue of New Zealand Business Law
Quarterly, a leading academic journal in Australasia,
subject to standard refereeing and editorial procedures.
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS:
The following are among the confirmed participants:
- Lynn Stout, Paul Hastings Professor of Corporate and
Securities Law, UCLA (Keynote address)
- Ed Waitzer, Jarislowsky-Dimma-Mooney Chair in Corporate
Governance, York University, Toronto
- Robert Kolb, Frank W. Considine Chair of Applied Ethics,
Loyola University Chicago
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 December 2009
For more information, visit:
http://www.business.auckland.ac.nz/nzgcsymposium2010
CONTACT: P.M. Vasudev
Email: MAILTO:p.vasudev@auckland.ac.nz