
Past Conferences
Manchester 2025
The 11th Annual ICGS Conference:
Transformative Corporate Governance
October 18-19, 2025
University of Manchester, UK




Awards 2025
Bill Q. Judge Best Paper Award Winner:
Sponsored by Wiley
Authors:
Tobias Coutinho Parente & Marina Amado Bahia Gama
Title:
Comply-Or-Explain in Brazil: What Makes Companies Adhere to Recommended Practices?
Bill Q. Judge Best Paper Award Runner Up:
Sponsored by Wiley
Authors:
Kurt Desender & Mónica López-Puertas Lamy
Title:
The Boardroom Firewall: Gender Diversity and Cybersecurity
Board Dynamics and Strategic Leadership Best Paper Award Winner:
Sponsored by Board Foundation
Best Paper Award presented at the PDW
Sponsored by Wiley
Authors:
Robert Langan, Markus Meierer, & Salome Lang
Title:
Who has done the Homework? Preparedness of Directors for Corporate Board Meetings
Authors:
Yujia Chen
Title:
When Shareholder Power Meets Social Conservatism: Big Three Ownership, Board Gender Reforms, and the Media Coverage
Conference Sponsors:







Arizona 2024
The 10th Annual ICGS Conference:
An Integrative View of Corporate Governance Theory and Research
November 9-10, 2024
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Conference Co-Chairs:
Amy Hillman & Christine Shropshire
Awards 2024
Best Paper Award:
Authors:
Hoa Briscoe-Tran
Title:
Do Employees Have Useful Information About Firms' ESG Practices?
Best Paper Runner-Up:
Authors:
Canquan (Charles) Li & Shuping Li
Title:
Be Open or Overwhelmed? CEOs' Exposure to Plural Orientations of Shareholder Activists and Firms' Responses to Subsequent Activism
Madrid 2023
The 9th Annual ICGS Conference:
Sustainable Corporate Governance
October 21-22, 2023
IE University, Madrid, Spain




Awards 2023
Best Paper Award:
Authors:
Charlotte Antoons, Eddy Cardinaels, & Liesbeth Bruynseels
Title:
ESG contracting and imitation behavior: Does the channel via which imitation arises matter?
Best Paper
Runner-Up:
Authors:
Justin Chircop, Monika Tarsalewska, & Agnieszka Trzeciakiewicz
Title:
CEO Risk Taking Equity Incentives and Workplace Misconduct




Miami 2022
The 8th Annual ICGS Conference:
Corporate Governance in a Digital Era: Challenges and Opportunities
November 11-12, 2022
Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami, FL
Conference Co-Chairs:
Fabrizio Ferri & Wei Shi
Awards 2022
Best Paper Award:
Authors:
Mario Daniele Amore
Title:
Neighborhood CEOs
Best Paper Runner-Up:
Authors:
Jonas Heese & Joseph Pacelli
Title:
Does information technology reduce corporate misconduct?
Groningen 2021
The 7th Annual ICGS Conference:
Corporate Governance in Times of Disruption
October 9-10, 2021
University of Groningen, Netherlands




Awards 2021
Best Paper Award:
Authors:
Paul Decaire & Denis Sosyura
Title:
CEO Pet Projects
Best Paper
Runner-Up:
Authors:
Mark Desjardine, Wei Shi,
& Zhihui Sun
Title:
Different Shades: The Effects of Hedge Fund Activism and Corporate Shareholder Activism on Competitive Actions