About the Journal

Scientific Journal Impact Factor (SJIF): 5.454

Index Copernicus (ICV) 2024 = 62.07

Editor-in-Chief

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Journal’s Summary

The  Journal of Corporate Governance and International Business Law is a peer reviewed research Journal. In a broad sense, corporate governance is about how firms should be governed so that they run effectively and efficiently. This Journal takes a broad perspective on corporate governance mechanisms and considers possible synergies between corporate governance and international business (IB) research. It's a biannual journal (frequency January-June and July-December), started in 2018.

Focus & Scope

• Corporate Governance and Board Accountability: Research on governance structures, board composition, director duties, board independence, accountability, transparency, fiduciary responsibilities, executive oversight, and the effectiveness of corporate decision-making mechanisms.
• International Business Law and Cross-Border Transactions: Studies on the legal frameworks governing international trade and business operations, cross-border contracts, foreign investment, international commercial transactions, multinational enterprises, and regulatory issues affecting companies operating across jurisdictions.
• Corporate Compliance and Regulatory Governance: Research on corporate compliance systems, statutory obligations, internal controls, regulatory enforcement, disclosure requirements, risk management, corporate investigations, and mechanisms for ensuring responsible business conduct.
• Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructuring: Studies on mergers, acquisitions, amalgamations, takeovers, corporate restructuring, joint ventures, due diligence, regulatory approvals, shareholder protection, and governance challenges arising from corporate combinations.
• Multinational Enterprises and Subsidiary Governance: Research on governance and legal issues affecting multinational corporations, including subsidiary mandates, parent–subsidiary relationships, cross-border control, corporate group structures, transfer of authority, and accountability within multinational enterprises.
• Shareholder and Stakeholder Rights: Studies on shareholder protection, minority rights, institutional investors, stakeholder participation, voting rights, shareholder activism, investor engagement, and the balancing of shareholder and broader stakeholder interests in corporate governance.
• Corporate Social Responsibility and ESG Governance: Research on corporate social responsibility, environmental, social and governance practices, sustainability reporting, responsible investment, corporate citizenship, non-financial disclosure, climate-related governance, and legal accountability for corporate sustainability commitments.
• Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility: Studies on ethical decision-making, corporate culture, integrity, conflicts of interest, whistleblowing, anti-corruption practices, ethical leadership, philanthropy, and the relationship between business ethics and corporate governance.
• Corporate Groups and Ownership Structures: Research on family-owned enterprises, state-owned enterprises, widely held corporations, holding companies, business groups, ownership concentration, controlling shareholders, agency conflicts, and governance challenges arising from complex corporate structures.
• Corporate Finance and Governance: Studies on the relationship between corporate governance and capital structure, investment decisions, financial performance, dividend policy, financing arrangements, institutional investment, and governance mechanisms influencing firm value.
• Securities Regulation and Corporate Disclosure: Research on listed-company obligations, securities regulation, market disclosure, financial and non-financial reporting, insider trading, market misconduct, investor protection, and governance requirements applicable to publicly traded companies.
• Insolvency, Corporate Distress, and Governance: Studies on corporate insolvency, restructuring, creditor rights, board duties during financial distress, business rescue, liquidation, insolvency governance, and the accountability of directors and management in financially distressed companies.
• Competition Law and International Business: Research on competition regulation, anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominance, merger control, market concentration, cross-border competition issues, and the interaction between corporate strategy and competition law.
• Foreign Investment and International Corporate Regulation: Studies on foreign direct investment, investment screening, multinational investment structures, regulatory approvals, bilateral investment frameworks, corporate establishment, and legal risks associated with international business expansion.
• Technology, Digital Business, and Corporate Governance: Research on artificial intelligence, digital platforms, blockchain, cybersecurity, data governance, automated decision-making, digital transformation, and emerging governance and accountability issues created by technology-driven business models.
• Corporate Dispute Resolution and International Commercial Arbitration: Studies on corporate litigation, shareholder disputes, contractual disputes, international commercial arbitration, mediation, conciliation, enforcement of arbitral awards, and dispute-resolution mechanisms relevant to international business.
• Comparative and International Corporate Governance: Comparative research on governance models, board systems, shareholder protection, regulatory approaches, corporate accountability, sustainability governance, and international best practices across different jurisdictions.
• Indian Corporate Governance and International Business Regulation: Research on Indian company law, corporate governance standards, securities regulation, foreign investment rules, judicial and regulatory developments, and reforms affecting Indian companies engaged in domestic and international business. Comparative and interdisciplinary scholarship is welcome where corporate governance or international business law forms the central contribution.

Readership: Graduate/ Postgraduate students, Research Scholars, Faculties, Industrialists, Independent Professionals, Government institutions

Indexing: The Journal is indexed in Google Scholar

Submission of Paper: 

All contributions to the journal are rigorously refereed and are selected on the basis of the quality and originality of the work. The journal publishes the most significant new research papers or any other original contribution in the form of reviews and reports on new concepts in all areas pertaining to its focus and scope, thus ensuring its scientific priority and significance.

Manuscripts are invited from academicians, students, research scholars, industrialists, independent professionals and faculties for publication consideration.

Papers are accepted for editorial consideration through email lawjournals@celnet.in/      cle@celnet.in

Subject: Corporate, Law, Governance, International Business Law

Plagiarism: All the articles will be checked through Plagiarism Software before publication.  

Abbreviation: JCGIBL

Frequency: Two issues per year

Peer Reviewed Policy:

Peer review is the most important part of the scientific publication process. Peer review is basically the process of engaging experts to review the articles submitted for publication in journals, this is done in order to validate the research and to enhance the quality of the articles that are published in the journal.

The peer review process is actually a demarcating line that decides what a research is and what is merely a hypothesis. This process screens the articles for their originality or work, their relevance to the previously published work and does the work meet the required standard so as to be published as a research article. The bottom line to conduct a peer review is to eliminate the possibility that science is just another opinion.

Basic design of a peer review process:

1) The process begins with the submission of article to the journal

2) The first step begins as the editor of the journal checks if the article falls under the focus and scope of the journal. If the article does not fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is rejected with feedback and necessary changes to the author, if the article do fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is forwarded to the next step of review.

3) Here the reviewer checks for the originality, validity, significance, theory , evidence and other parameters based on the guidelines of the editors and yardsticks to measure the quality of the article.

4) Reviewer then make necessary comments and send the paper back to the editorial board, a reviewer may accept the paper as it is, reject or suggest changes in the manuscript, this information is conveyed to the authors

5) Editor of the journal then make final decision to publish the article based on the reviewers comments. And finalize the time frame for publishing the article.

6) Finally the accepted articles appear in the publication.

For further details on the publishing process and guidelines that an author and editor should follow, and to know more about the yardstick of the reviewers we would suggest you to go through the Author and Editors Guidelines.

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Editorial Board

Author's Guidelines

Publication Ethics & Malpractice Statement

Publisher: Law Journals, an imprint of Consortium E-Learning Network Pvt. Ltd.

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Editor-in-Chief:

Dr. Hema Menon

Director,
Director of Essence International School, Nagpur
India
Email: hemamenon@neis.in   Mobile No- +91 9823102007