International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS) Conference 2025

You'll need to book accommodation if you're planning to stay overnight in Manchester. There are lots of hotels near AMBS for a range of budgets. We recommend booking a hotel as soon as possible, to avoid disappointment.

Where to stay

Recommended hotel:

Hyatt Regency and Hyatt House Manchester - next to AMBS campus.

Alliance Manchester Business School and The University of Manchester staff, students, alumni and guests have preferential rates at the Hyatt Regency and Hyatt House Manchester.

Premium hotels:

Kimpton Clocktower Hotel - 0.6 miles from AMBS

The Midland - 0.9 miles from AMBS.

Mid-priced hotels:

• Maldron Hotel - 0.6 miles from AMBS
• INNSiDE Manchester - 0.8 miles from AMBS
• Townhouse Hotel Manchester - 0.9 miles from AMBS
• Motel One Manchester Piccadilly - 1 mile from AMBS.

Budget hotels:

• ibis Princess Street - 0.7 miles from AMBS
• Premier Inn Manchester City Centre (Princess Street) - 0.5 miles from AMBS.

Venue address

Alliance Manchester Business School
Booth Street West
Manchester
M15 6PB

You can travel to Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) by car, rail and on foot. You can also get to AMBS from Manchester Airport.

Travel by train

If your train gets in at Manchester Piccadilly railway station, this is about 1.5 miles from AMBS. Manchester Piccadilly is the main inter-city and cross-country train station. You can get a taxi to AMBS from outside the front and rear entrances to Manchester Piccadilly - but the rear entrance is slightly nearer to the university campus.

If your train gets in at Manchester Oxford Road railway station, this is less than 1 mile from AMBS.

You can book your train journey on the National Rail website.

Travel by car

If you're using a SatNav, you should use the postcode M13 9SS.

When you arrive at Alliance Manchester Business School, the Executive Education Centre and Hyatt Regency hotel are sign-posted. You can park at either:

• Car Park D, The University of Manchester, Booth Street West, Manchester, M15 6PB
• NCP, Manchester Aquatic Centre, Booth Street East, Manchester, M13 9SS.

You will have to pay for parking - make sure you check overnight charges and parking restrictions.

Walk to AMBS

Manchester is a walkable city. You can get to AMBS from the two main train stations nearby:

• From Manchester Piccadilly in about 20 minutes - check the walking route from Manchester Piccadilly on Google maps.
• From Manchester Oxford Road in about 15 minutes - check the walking route from Manchester Oxford Road on Google maps.

Travel from Manchester Airport

The University of Manchester campus and AMBS are located about 10 miles from the airport, which is roughly 30 minutes by car. You can get to AMBS from the airport by taxi - this will cost around £25 depending on the time of day.

You can also travel by train - trains run frequently to Manchester Piccadilly station.

Check travel and directions on the Manchester Airport website.

Travel around Manchester

Greater Manchester has an extensive transport network making it easy to travel throughout the region. You can get around Greater Manchester by bus or tram - plan your journeys on the Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) website.

Alliance Manchester Business School was established in 1965, making it one of the UK's first business schools - approaching our 60th anniversary. We are a proud member of the illustrious group of business schools that are triple-accredited by AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA.

The University of Manchester and Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) are distinctive in UK higher education as the first university and business school to make social responsibility a core strategic goal.

AMBS is one of the most prestigious business schools in Europe and the world; it has a triple accreditation from AACSB International, AMBA and EQUIS and it is one of the largest and oldest business schools in the UK. The business school has a large and multidisciplinary team of researchers interested in various topics related to corporate governance.

Researchers have a background in accounting, finance, law, and management.

The Centre for the Analysis of Investment Risk (CAIR)

Based in AMBS, CAIR provides research expertise on:

• Wide-ranging aspects of investment decision-making
• The governance of the ambiguities, risks, and uncertainty faced when making decisions.

Researchers based in the Centre have a particular interest in Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) issues and the significant role that different types of investors - from financial institutions to governments - can play in terms of addressing the following:

• Climate change risks
• Diversity on boards
• Modern slavery
• Executive pay.

Your submission must build on your own previously unpublished and not-yet presented original research. You can submit either a full paper or a research proposal. Whichever option you choose, we're looking for research that will advance the field of corporate governance.

If you submit a full paper, it must not be longer than 40 double-spaced pages - this includes your abstract, references, tables, and figures.

If you submit a research proposal, it must not be longer than 10 single-spaced pages in length or 3,000 words. It must also include the following sections:

• Abstract - a 200 to 300 words description that summarises the overall study
• Proposal - a narrative description of the conceptual or empirical study
• Supporting materials - tables, figures, and references that support your proposal.

On your paper or proposal's title page, you should indicate which of the conference tracks best fits - you can read the different tracks below. The Track Chairs might shift your paper or proposal into another track to the one you submit if they think it fits better.

You can submit your paper or proposal from 1 March 2025. You must submit your paper or proposal through our online conference management system - a link will be added to this page when submissions open.

You must submit your paper or proposal by 23:59 (UK time) on 30 June 2025.

You'll be contacted about your paper or proposal's inclusion in the conference programme after submission - this date will be added to this page when confirmed. The best papers and proposals will be considered for the best conference paper award. The author(s) awarded with this will be recognised at the conference.

The theme for 2025 is 'Transformative Corporate Governance'. Corporate governance is studied by scholars from different fields such as accounting, finance, management, and law.

Scholars across these fields approach corporate governance through different theoretical lenses, including behavioural, economic, institutional, and political. They also employ different research methods, such as:

• Theory-based analysis
• Data-driven research
• Case studies
• Large-scale empirical studies.

We particularly welcome submissions that bring together these different approaches to corporate governance. We'd encourage papers that focus on how corporate governance can help companies manage external forces and transform both their organisational practices and their impact on business and society.

Topics of particular interest include, but aren't limited to, the following:

• Transformative Corporate Governance in an Evolving Legal, Economic and Political Environment
• Boards of Directors in Periods of Transformation: Skills, characteristics and outcomes
• Stakeholder Management and Engagement in Periods of Transformation
• Comparative Corporate Governance and Transformation
• Corporate Ownership and Transformation.

Since the overarching mission of ICGS is to bring together international governance scholars from multiple disciplines, original research in any area of corporate governance is welcomed.

This track invites scholars trying to span multiple theories or multiple disciplines to reconcile these different approaches and focus on the role of corporate governance in the context of helping companies to manage the external transformative forces and to transform their organisational practices and external business/societal environment.

In this track, we explore the roles of boards of directors and top executives as well as other internal governance actors such as audit executives, general counsel, ESG officers and so on.

This track explores the antecedents and outcomes of different types of owners. The track also encourages papers on non-traditional means of raising capital that give rise to ownership changes, such as:

• Private equity
• Other forms of alternative investment.

This track includes hedge-fund activists and other activist investors' influence on the firm and governance.

This track seeks to understand how firms' strategic decisions are influenced by external governance mechanisms. These include - but aren't limited to:

• Institutional rules
• Cultural norms
• The role of external governance intermediaries such as external auditors, financial analysts, rating agencies, and media.

This track focuses on the relationship between corporate governance and stakeholders. Topics can be related to:

• How stakeholders play a governance role
• How governance actors shape firms' stakeholder relationships as well as stakeholder related disclosure.

ESG strategies as they relate to governance are encouraged.

This track explores corporate governance in a (de)globalising economy. We want to discuss how transnational non-governmental institutions shape corporate governance across nations.

Furthermore, it's interesting and useful to compare governance practices across national economies. Multi-level governance interactions between multiple governance environments are also considered.