Corporate Governance and Misconduct

The objective of the workshop is to convene scholars in the field of corporate governance, providing a forum to present their research and foster future collaboration. We invite submissions in the broad area of corporate governance, with a particular focus on issues related to corporate misconduct.

Keynote speaker

Professor Konstantinos Stathopoulos holds a Chair in Accounting and Finance at Alliance Manchester Business School and an Otto Moensted Visiting Professorship at Copenhagen Business School. He currently serves as the Vice President of the International Corporate Governance Society and Chair of the BAFA Corporate Governance Special Interest Group.

Konstantinos has more than twenty years of experience conducting research across most areas of corporate governance, with a particular focus on executive compensation and how suboptimal governance practices may destroy stakeholder wealth. He has an extensive publication record, and his work has appeared in leading peer-reviewed academic journals, including the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, and Journal of Corporate Finance, among others.

Paper submission

Papers should be submitted to efic@essex.ac.uk by Monday 30 March 2026 using “Corporate Governance and Misconduct EFiC Workshop Submission” as the email subject.

The authors will be notified of the outcome by Monday 13 April 2026.

Registration

Registration deadline is Monday 20 April 2026. There is no registration fee. Participants are expected to pay travel and accommodation.

Those who would like to attend the workshop without submitting a paper should contact efic@essex.ac.uk; spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Organising committee

Chiara Banti, Udichibarna Bose, Anna Sarkisyan.