The Effectiveness of Corporate Governance: The Impact of Board Quality on the Performance of Malaysian Listed Companies

The Effectiveness of Corporate Governance: The Impact of Board Quality on the Performance of Malaysian Listed Companies

The study aims to empirically investigate board quality namely; multiple directorships, board independence, board meeting and directors' financial expertise in construction and technology companies that are listed in Bursa Malaysia have impact over their firm performance (ROA). For the purpose...

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Main Author: Elghewail, Osama Muftah Ahmad
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
eng
Published: 2010
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HD2709-2930.7 Corporations
Online Access:https://etd.uum.edu.my/2237/1/Osama_Muftah_Ahmad_Elghewail.pdf
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spelling my-uum-etd.22372013-07-24T12:15:03Z The Effectiveness of Corporate Governance: The Impact of Board Quality on the Performance of Malaysian Listed Companies 2010-04 Elghewail, Osama Muftah Ahmad Ishak, Zuaini College of Business (COB) College of Business HD2709-2930.7 Corporations The study aims to empirically investigate board quality namely; multiple directorships, board independence, board meeting and directors' financial expertise in construction and technology companies that are listed in Bursa Malaysia have impact over their firm performance (ROA). For the purpose of this study, 48 construction companies and 89 technology companies have been chosen from Bursa Malaysia. The conduct of testing is controlled by firm size and level of leverage. The findings show those factors of board quality namely, multiple directorships, board meeting and directors' financial expertise have no significant impact on ROA, while board independence has negative impact on ROA. The findings also show firm size has significant positive relationship with ROA; however the result shows that there is no significant relationship between leverage and ROA. 2010-04 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/2237/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/2237/1/Osama_Muftah_Ahmad_Elghewail.pdf application/pdf eng validuser https://etd.uum.edu.my/2237/2/1.Osama_Muftah_Ahmad_Elghewail.pdf application/pdf eng public http://lintas.uum.edu.my:8080/elmu/index.jsp?module=webopac-l&action=fullDisplayRetriever.jsp&szMaterialNo=0000760069 masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
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language eng
eng
advisor Ishak, Zuaini
topic HD2709-2930.7 Corporations
spellingShingle HD2709-2930.7 Corporations
Elghewail, Osama Muftah Ahmad
The Effectiveness of Corporate Governance: The Impact of Board Quality on the Performance of Malaysian Listed Companies
description The study aims to empirically investigate board quality namely; multiple directorships, board independence, board meeting and directors' financial expertise in construction and technology companies that are listed in Bursa Malaysia have impact over their firm performance (ROA). For the purpose of this study, 48 construction companies and 89 technology companies have been chosen from Bursa Malaysia. The conduct of testing is controlled by firm size and level of leverage. The findings show those factors of board quality namely, multiple directorships, board meeting and directors' financial expertise have no significant impact on ROA, while board independence has negative impact on ROA. The findings also show firm size has significant positive relationship with ROA; however the result shows that there is no significant relationship between leverage and ROA.
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qualification_name masters
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author Elghewail, Osama Muftah Ahmad
author_facet Elghewail, Osama Muftah Ahmad
author_sort Elghewail, Osama Muftah Ahmad
title The Effectiveness of Corporate Governance: The Impact of Board Quality on the Performance of Malaysian Listed Companies
title_short The Effectiveness of Corporate Governance: The Impact of Board Quality on the Performance of Malaysian Listed Companies
title_full The Effectiveness of Corporate Governance: The Impact of Board Quality on the Performance of Malaysian Listed Companies
title_fullStr The Effectiveness of Corporate Governance: The Impact of Board Quality on the Performance of Malaysian Listed Companies
title_full_unstemmed The Effectiveness of Corporate Governance: The Impact of Board Quality on the Performance of Malaysian Listed Companies
title_sort effectiveness of corporate governance: the impact of board quality on the performance of malaysian listed companies
granting_institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
granting_department College of Business (COB)
publishDate 2010
url https://etd.uum.edu.my/2237/1/Osama_Muftah_Ahmad_Elghewail.pdf
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