Large organizations and corporations’ main decisions lay in the hands of a few. As these business agents are the most influential contributors to the countries’ business environment, due to their strong and extensive relationships with almost every society’s spheres, their governance behavior are able to provide valuable insights about growth, power, and development dynamics within the organizational landscape (Carroll & Fennema, 2002; Hambrick, 2007; Pettigrew, 1992). Nowadays, stakeholders’ demands represent several sustainability challenges for organizations since they have to overcome these from different strategic perspectives such as developing innovation, achieving economic growth, standing for corporate reputation, entering into the digital revolution, facing important social issues, and soon (Aguilera et al., 2007; Gomez-Trujillo et al., 2020; Ogaga et al., 2019). Hence, both, formal as well as informal mechanisms for corporate governance come up with different ways to understand how organizations’ leaders deal with their essential tasks such as control, supervision, and management (Cordova, 2018; La Porta et al., 2000; Shleifer & Vishny, 1997: Osedo et al., 2020), through their way to perform those major perspectives. As an additional challenge to this, emerging markets’ environment provide opportunities as well as constraints (Letting et al., 2012; Ongore, 2011; Wasike & Owino, 2020) to mobilize those corporate governance efforts toward sustainability concerns (Clarke, 2015; Gomez-Trujillo & Gonzalez-Perez, 2020), while business leaders guide their vessels through increasingly risky scenarios.

This AD-Minister Special Issue aims to encourage researchers and academics to present their papers. It welcomes manuscripts that provide significant contributions for different types of organizations such as HEIs, NGOs, MNCs, or SMEs, which operate in Emerging Markets, in order to develop the following topics:

• Governance structures, ownership, management control.
• Independent directors, Top management team, duality of roles.
• Board of directors, boards’ diversity, size, and composition.
• Corporate networks, interlocking directorates.
• Corporate mergers and acquisitions.
• Corporate governance mechanisms (poison pills, golden parachutes, etc.).
• Other subjects related to this organizational field.

Expected publication: July-December 2022 issue

Deadline for submission of full papers is September 30, 2021. Submissions have to be done using this link: https://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/administer/about/submissions

Manuscripts should not exceed 7000 words, including all figures, tables and appendices; and excluding references. Please, follow contributor guidelines available at http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/administer/about/submissions#authorGuidelines. Manuscript’s first page has to indicate that it aims for this Special Issue.

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Guest Editors
Miguel CORDOVA is Associate Professor of the Department of Management Sciences at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Perú). Email: [log in to unmask]
Maria V. ILIEVA is a Specially appointed lecturer at the Graduate School of Business, Osaka City University, Japan. Email: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
Joan Lilian OGENDO is a Lecturer at the School of Business and Management Studies, The Technical University of Kenya, Kenya. Email: [log in to unmask]

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Carroll, W. K., & Fennema, M. (2002). Is there a transnational business community? International Sociology, 17(3), 393-419.

Clarke, T. (2015). The transformation of corporate governance in emerging markets: Reform, convergence, and diversity. Emerging Markets Finance & Trade, 51(2), S25-S46.

Cordova, M. (2018). The evolution of interlocking directorates studies - A global trend perspective. AD-minister, 33(2), 135-165.

Doh, J.P., Husted, B., & Yang, X. 2016. Ethics and corporate social responsibility in developing country multinationals. Business Ethics Quarterly, 26(3): 301-315.

Gomez-Trujillo, A.M. & Gonzalez-Perez, M.A. (2020). What do we know about organizational sustainability and international business? Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, 31(2), 292-305.

Gomez-Trujillo, A.M., Velez-Ocampo, J. & Gonzalez-Perez, M.A. (2020). A literature review on the causality between sustainability and corporate reputation. What goes first? Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, 31(2), 406-430.

Hambrick, D. (2007). Upper echelons theory: An update. Academy of Management, 32(2), 334-343.

La Porta, R., Lopez-De-Silanes, F., Shleifer, A. & Vishny, R. (2000). Investor protection and corporate governance. Journal of Financial Economics, 58(1-2), 3-27.
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Ogaga, B., Ogendo, J. L., & Awino, Z. B. (2019). Corporate Strategy, Organizational Structure and Organizational Performance of Listed Companies in Emerging Markets: Kenyan Perspective. International Journal of Economics, Business and Management Research (IJEBMR). http://ijebmr.com/uploads2019/IJEBMR_340.pdf

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Osedo, C. O., Mwanza, J., & Ogendo, J. L. (2020). The Effect of Corporate Governance on Corporate Performance of General Insurance Companies In Kenya. Scholars Journal of Economics, Business and Management, 325-335. doi:10.36347/sjebm.2020.v07i09.007

Mahmood, Z. and Uddin, S. (2020), "Institutional logics and practice variations in sustainability reporting: evidence from an emerging field", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-07-2019-4086

Pettigrew, A. M. (1992). On studying managerial elites. Strategic Management Journal, 13(S2), 163-182.

Shleifer, A. & Vishny, R.W. (1997). A survey of corporate governance. Journal of Finance, 52(2), 737-783.

Wasike, S. M., & Owino, J. O. (2020). Top Management Team Characteristics, Competitive Environment and Strategy Implementation of Tea Factories in Kenya. International Journal of Business and Management, 15(7), 147 -157.