{"id":1140,"date":"2016-07-01T07:33:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T07:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/researchblog.iimk.ac.in\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2016-07-20T07:10:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T07:10:31","slug":"nse-igidr-corporate-governance-research-initiative-call-for-research-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/researchblog.iimk.ac.in\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"NSE \u2013 IGIDR Corporate Governance Research Initiative Call for Research Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"page-title\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) and the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) are collaborating to promote academic research on Corporate Governance in India. The Initiative invites academics and scholars working in the areas of economics, finance, law and management disciplines\u00a0to submit research proposals that are relevant for understanding, designing and implementing best-practice corporate governance policies. Six projects in total will be selected by the Initiative and a token honorarium of USD 2000 will be paid per project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadline for submitting research proposal<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>July 31, 2016<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>TOPICS OF INTEREST<\/strong>\u00a0(to the Initiative include but are not limited to:)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Ownership and control structures, their evolution, minority shareholder rights,the role of large shareholders and institutional investors<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Governance issues in family firms\/business groups including the role of internal markets, insider control, relational contracting and succession planning<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Board size, \u00a0CEO duality, role of independent directors, Board assessment and term limits<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Gender and board diversity<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Auditor and audit committee independence<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Accounting and auditing standards, disclosure practices, transparency, and earnings management<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Related party transactions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Role of proxy advisors in governance<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Governance\u00a0<em>of<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0financial institutions and institutional investors<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Governance\u00a0<em>by<\/em>\u00a0financial institutions and institutional investors<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Governance of public and private sector companies including listed and unlisted companies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Executive compensation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Corporate governance index<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Laws, regulations and enforcement<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The role of value, ethics, and trust \u00a0in governance<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research proposals should be emailed in a single file in pdf format to:<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"mailto:nse-igidr-cg@igidr.ac.in\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\">nse-igidr-cg@igidr.ac.in<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To know more about the procedure of proposal submission, please visit:<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epw.in\/content\/nse-%E2%80%93-igidr-corporate-governance-research-initiative?0=ip_login_no_cache%3D9d62e131c2dd36aeecdba015936a3641\"><span style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/www.epw.in\/content\/nse-%E2%80%93-igidr-corporate-governance-research-initiative?0=ip_login_no_cache%3D9d62e131c2dd36aeecdba015936a3641<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) and the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) are collaborating to promote academic research on Corporate Governance in India. The Initiative invites academics and scholars working in the areas of economics, finance, law and management disciplines\u00a0to submit research proposals that are relevant for understanding, designing and implementing best-practice corporate governance policies. Six &hellip;<span class=\"clear\"><\/span><span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/researchblog.iimk.ac.in\/?p=1140\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notificationsannouncements","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.iimk.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.iimk.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.iimk.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.iimk.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.iimk.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.iimk.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.iimk.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.iimk.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.iimk.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.iimk.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}