Corporate Board: role, duties and composition (ISSN: 1810-8601)

Description

The major aim of the journal is the publishing of the papers in the field of corporate governance with a focus on corporate board issues with prior securing the high standard of quality of the papers through managing the peer and blind reviewing of the papers and further dissemination of research results to make it beneficial both for the reading audience and the reputation of the authors of the papers.
Key-topics of the journal
Board models
Directors' duties and liabilities
Directors' independence
Internal control
Board leadership
Board size and continuity
Board reporting and accountability
Remuneration and compensation issues
Conflict of interests
Board committees
Board performance
Gender diversity of the board
Board ethics
Board information issues
The board's role in the risk governance process
Board of directors` strategy
Board policies
Board evaluation
Board decision-making process (asymmetry information issue)
The role of the board in the presence of shareholder activism and in the related party transactions
Frequency of publishing
The journal is published three times a year.
Reading audience of the journal
The journal is aimed at researchers, lecturers, students pursuing a research in the field of corporate governance with focus on corporate board issues.
Journal's Open Access statement
Corporate Board journal adheres to the BOAI definition of open access: that users have the right to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles".
We've uploaded in OA some issues of the journal in previous years, but starting with March 15th, 2018 the journal became completely open access. In this way, we address respect to our network and provide an opportunity to our authors to publish their papers in OA.
Acceptance rate and turnaround time
Acceptance rate is the ratio of the number of articles submitted to the number of articles published. The acceptance rate for articles submitted in 2016 is 22 per cent.
‘Turnaround time' is defined as the date from when a manuscript was first received by the journal to the date the author of the manuscript was provided with a first decision. Turnaround time for articles submitted in 2016 is 54 days.