Innovations in Corporate Governance and Performance Management

In recent years, both corporate governance and performance management have been subject to significant forces for change: externally (as a reaction to changing regulatory requirements around the world) and internally (new managerial practices and initiatives inside enterprises). These emerging trends affect all enterprises from all sectors whether they are historically subject to formal external and government regulation (such as the financial services sector or healthcare), listing requirements (public companies and multinational companies) or informally structured family businesses and SMEs where wider groups of stakeholders are beginning to become active. For all enterprises changes in the corporate governance and management control spheres can be seen to stimulate innovative management practice in order to address their potential impact on corporate performance. The scientific papers in this special issue of the International Journal of Business Performance Management contribute to the current response by scholars to these events using a broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches to extend and develop the state-of-the-art.