Editorial: Sustainable corporate governance

Abstract

The publication of this issue during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has serious implications for businesses who are now struggling with their business continuation plans. The role of regulators, corporate governance, ethics, equity and equality, home entertainment, cost of debt and the banking industry plays an important role in costs optimization, competitiveness, profitability, corporate social responsibility, social welfare, employment, managing direct and indirect income losses, protecting physical assets and distribution facilities and maintaining price stability. In other words, businesses have to operate in a sustainable way to achieve the United Nations SDGs (good health, zero hunger, no poverty, decent work, industry innovation, clean sanitation, and responsible consumption and production). Although the published papers do not specifically address the pandemic, they touch on the key aspects that the business community is currently trying to solve provide a sufficient scholarly contribution to the previous fundamental papers by Megginson, de Andres, Brogi, and Govorun (2019), Kostyuk and Barros (2018), Guerra, Fischmann, and Machado Filho (2008), Del Brio, Maia-Ramires, and Perote (2006).