Corporate Governance in Central Europe and Russia / CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance (PDF)

conferences and workshops on CSR and has on two occasions 2008 and 2014 won Emerald's Highly Commended Literati Network Awards for Excellence. To date, Samuel has edited several books in the fields of CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance and has written four forewords to books. Samuel has served as an external examiner to the following UK Universities - Sunderland, Ulster, Anglia Ruskin and Plymouth. He is currently an external examiner at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Teesside University, Middlesbrough and Sheffield Hallam University.




Irina Tkachenko is a professor at Ural State University of Economics, Ekaterinburg, Russia, director of the Institute of Corporate Governance and Entrepreneurship, and head of the Department of Corporate Economics, Governance and Business, and Business Administration. She is a Doctor of Science (Economics). Her doctorate dissertation (2002) "Institutional and Valuable Basis for Effective Development of Interfirm Corporate Relations" was devoted to the problems of corporate governance. She specializes in topics of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and public-private partnership. She is one of the co-authors of the book "Transforming Governance: New Values, New Systems in New Business Environment", edited by M.Aluchna, Guler Aras. Tkachenko is one of the co-authors of the book "Responsible Corporate Governance", published by Springer (2017) and edited by M.Aluchna, S.O. Idowu.



Irina Tkachenko has won many grants on corporate governance issues, including international: The Fundamental Research Fund in the sphere of economic science by the Russian Ministry of Education (1999-2000, 2003-2004); RGNF Grant, (2001, 2011-2012); The Russian Foundation for Basic Research (2013-2015); Grant of Bridge partnership with Ashcroft International Business School of Anglia Ruskin University, UK (2006-2010, 2012); ACTR-RSEP fellowship, George Washington University, Washington, DC (USA, 1995); Canada-Russia Program in Corporate Governance, Schulich School of Business, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Grant of CIDA, June-July, 2003; Erasmus Mundus Action 3: (SCEE project) - The Warsaw School of Economics (Szkola Glówna Handlowa w Warszawie, SGH) (2013). Tkachenko was a visiting lecturer in Karaganda State University, Kazahstan (2012), in Poland (SGH, 2013), in Italy (Luiss Guido Carli University and Link Campus University (Rome, 2014) and Florence University (2014).