In an era of growing societal expectations, regulatory change, and global uncertainty, corporate governance is increasingly shaped by questions of stakeholder rights, responsibilities, and risks. As corporations face demands from a broader range of stakeholders, new challenges emerge regarding accountability, legitimacy, and the creation of sustainable value. Against this background, the theme of this year’s conference is “Re-Imagining Corporate Governance: Stakeholder Rights, Responsibilities, and Risks.”
Each year, the ICGS conference provides a forum for international academics and policymakers to showcase and discuss the latest corporate governance research and practice. Bringing together scholars from management, finance, accounting, international business, and law, the 2027 conference theme promotes cross-disciplinary dialogue on how corporations, boards, investors, policymakers, and stakeholders can re-imagine governance to balance competing interests while fostering long-term organizational and societal resilience.
The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It has been named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. As of 2018, it had approximately 32,000 students enrolled in around 100 academic programs. The university is organized into 11 faculties.
The university is a member of the German U15, a group of fifteen major research and medical universities in Germany. It also participates in the IT-Cluster Rhine-Main-Neckar and forms part of the Rhine-Main-Universities (RMU) along with Goethe University Frankfurt and Technische Universität Darmstadt.
The first university of Mainz was founded in 1477, it is one of the oldest universities in Europe, although it was later closed and re-founded 148 years later.
Our mission is to create a global forum for corporate governance scholars, fostering collaboration to produce rigorous research, teaching, and consulting that elevate corporate governance practices worldwide. We achieve this through international conferences, doctoral consortiums, focused symposiums, and interdisciplinary research. We also provide awards for impactful scholars, academic position notices, insights on governance developments, databases of governance indicators, and white papers on public policy. Our goal is to be the preferred academic society for those dedicated to corporate governance research, teaching, and consulting.
