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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Board size"”.
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The influence of selected managerial quality and board composition variables on the performance of German cooperative banks – an analysis of age, gender, education and experience as well as board size and composition
… education, experience and gender of executive board members, as well as the board size and composition, have an influence on the long-term sustainability of German cooperative banks? Due to declining profit margins, German cooperative banks are facing increasing threats to their future …
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The effect of board characteristics on firm financial performance of listed companies in Hong Kong
Corporate board characteristics are mainly due to the nature of directors because boards are composed of members with different backgrounds, such as family background, gender, and classification of directors which may affect directors’ roles and responsibilities within a board. Since executive …
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Corporate governance and financial performance of long-term insurance companies in South Africa
… employed a panel regression technique using board size, board independence, audit committee size and CEO tenure as proxies for corporate governance while controlling for firm size, reinsurance usage and leverage. The proxies used for financial performance were underwriting profits, return on …
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Essays in Corporate Governance: Issues and Evidence from Equity Carve-Outs
… the relation between firm performance and board structure. In particular, I study how board size, board independence, and CEO duality influence firm performance. I find that board size for non-financial firms is negatively related to firm performance but positively associated with …
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Corporate governance : the effect of Shariah supervisory board on Malaysian financial institutions’ performance
… the effectiveness of Shariah Supervisory Board (SSB) as a corporate governance mechanism. Despite the importance of the subject matter, little research has been carried out on the influence of Shariah Supervisory Board as a corporate governance mechanism on firm performance in Malaysia. …
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Effect of corporate governance on the financial performance of state owned enterprises in Zambia.
… corporate governance attributes used included board composition, independent committees, board size and firm size. A random sample of 165 respondents from SOEs was selected for the study out of which 125 respondents completely answered and returned the questionnaires. This gave a response rate …
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Effect of corporate governance on the financial performance of state owned enterprises in Zambia.
… corporate governance attributes used included board composition, independent committees, board size and firm size. A random sample of 165 respondents from SOEs was selected for the study out of which 125 respondents completely answered and returned the questionnaires. This gave a response rate …
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Corporate Governance, Performance and Risk-Taking in the U.S. Banking Industry
… of the bank holding company and several board characteristics. We use five proxies for bank performance including Tobin’s Q, ROA, loan loss reserve ratio, non-performing asset ratio, and net charge-offs ratio. Board characteristic variables we include are board size, proportion of …
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Corporate governance and financial performance of asset managers in South Africa
… of corporate governance characteristics (board size, board independence, board chairman independence, audit committee independence, and audit committee financial expertise) on the financial performance of asset management firms in South Africa. The proxy for financial performance is Return …
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Efficacy of corporate governance on corporate disclosure in developing economies: A comparative study of companies listed on selected stock markets in Sub Saharan Africa
… governance attributes (CEO non-duality, board size, board composition, composition of audit committees, block and director share ownership) and three control variables (Firm size, leverage, and profitability) that may have a significant influence on corporate disclosure. Corporate …
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The impact of board composition on financial performance of listed corporations in Zambia.
… lose jobs. Corporate governance classifies the board into four attributes, namely, board composition, board characteristics, board structure and board process. The objective of this study was to examine whether there is a relationship between board composition (board size, board independence and …
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The impact of board composition on financial performance of listed corporations in Zambia.
… lose jobs. Corporate governance classifies the board into four attributes, namely, board composition, board characteristics, board structure and board process. The objective of this study was to examine whether there is a relationship between board composition (board size, board independence and …
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Corporate governance and bank performance in the sub-Saharan African emerging economy.
… by investigating the association between board governance and bank financial performance for a sample of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) banks. It also investigates the moderation effect of regulatory quality on such associations. Adopting panel data techniques, the study analyses balanced panel …
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Voluntary formation of audit committees and their practices : an Australian study
… reports for the financial year 2004. The sample size was obtained from the Connect 4 database of companies. Using Agency theory, the study hypothesized that voluntary formation of audit committees was linked to Big 4 external auditors, proportion of independent directors, leverage, firm size, …
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On Corporate Hedging and Firm Focus and on Bank Board Structure
… the REIT industry, and the other compares bank board structures in China and the US. The first essay presented in Chapter 2 examines the relation between corporate hedging and firm focus in the REIT industry by using a sample of REITs in 2005 and in 2007. We find 46.41% utilization rate in 2005 …
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Board attributes, financial distress and fruitless and wasteful expenditure in south african state-owned enterprises
… African state-owned enterprises (SOEs). SOE boards are often criticised for failing to protect the financial sustainability of these entities and prevent the incurrence of fruitless and wasteful expenditure. Therefore, this study seeks to investigate the relationship between board attributes …
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Corporate governance, conservatism and firm performance: Evidence from China
This thesis examines the effect of the board of directors and supervisory board on conservatism and firm performance, respectively, and the benefits of conservatism on performance. In addition, this thesis investigates whether the effectiveness of firms’ governance on conservatism and firm …
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Critical Mass of Women on Biotech Corporate Boards and Its Implication For Firm Performance: A Mixed Method Explanatory Sequential Study
… purposeful semistructured interviews with eight board members from the dataset. The combined results resolved several ambiguities present in the literature regarding board selection, composition, and the correlation of board diversity with firm performance. This study used the well-known …
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The determinants and consequences of corporate social responsibility disclosure : the case of Jordan
… and quality, such as corporate characteristics (size, gearing, firm’s age, and industry type), corporate governance (board size, number of meetings, non-executive directors, female directors in the board, family directors in the board, foreign members, audit committee, type of external auditors, …
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