Corporate governance structure and bank performance in Iraq

This study examines corporate governance practices in Iraq by the bank industry. Weak corporate governance has caused to the poor performance of listed firms in Iraq. Hence, the current research aims to examine the relationship between corporate governance structure and Iraqi banking performance. Ba...

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Main Author:	Abdullah, Abdullah Saeed
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng eng
Published:	2019
Subjects:	HD2709-2930.7 Corporations HG Finance
Online Access:	https://etd.uum.edu.my/9656/1/s823031_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9656/2/s823031_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9656/3/s823031_references.docx
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spelling	my-uum-etd.96562022-08-08T03:30:57Z Corporate governance structure and bank performance in Iraq 2019 Abdullah, Abdullah Saeed Ku Bahador, Ku Maisurah Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz School of Accountancy (TISSA) Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz School of Accountancy (TISSA) HD2709-2930.7 Corporations HG Finance This study examines corporate governance practices in Iraq by the bank industry. Weak corporate governance has caused to the poor performance of listed firms in Iraq. Hence, the current research aims to examine the relationship between corporate governance structure and Iraqi banking performance. Bank performance is measured through return on assets (ROA) as the dependent variable. The corporate governance structure, however, is measured through the board of director’s characteristics (board of director’s size, gender diversity, board of directors meeting) as the independent variables. This research used secondary data from the annual report of sixteen banks listed in the Iraq stock exchange for the year of 2014-2017 with 64 bank-year observations. Agency theory is used as the underpinning theory to support the model of this study. For data analysis, panel data analysis is employed with both descriptive and correlation analysis through linear regression to investigate the corporate governance structure and bank performance. The empirical result demonstrates that the relationship between board size and ROA is negatively significant. The relationship between gender diversity and ROA is also found negatively significant as illustrated from the previous relationship. This study also found that the association between board meeting and ROA is negatively insignificant. 2019 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/9656/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/9656/1/s823031_01.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9656/2/s823031_02.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9656/3/s823031_references.docx text eng public other masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
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language	eng eng eng
advisor	Ku Bahador, Ku Maisurah
topic	HD2709-2930.7 Corporations HG Finance
spellingShingle	HD2709-2930.7 Corporations HG Finance Abdullah, Abdullah Saeed Corporate governance structure and bank performance in Iraq
description	This study examines corporate governance practices in Iraq by the bank industry. Weak corporate governance has caused to the poor performance of listed firms in Iraq. Hence, the current research aims to examine the relationship between corporate governance structure and Iraqi banking performance. Bank performance is measured through return on assets (ROA) as the dependent variable. The corporate governance structure, however, is measured through the board of director’s characteristics (board of director’s size, gender diversity, board of directors meeting) as the independent variables. This research used secondary data from the annual report of sixteen banks listed in the Iraq stock exchange for the year of 2014-2017 with 64 bank-year observations. Agency theory is used as the underpinning theory to support the model of this study. For data analysis, panel data analysis is employed with both descriptive and correlation analysis through linear regression to investigate the corporate governance structure and bank performance. The empirical result demonstrates that the relationship between board size and ROA is negatively significant. The relationship between gender diversity and ROA is also found negatively significant as illustrated from the previous relationship. This study also found that the association between board meeting and ROA is negatively insignificant.
format	Thesis
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qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Abdullah, Abdullah Saeed
author_facet	Abdullah, Abdullah Saeed
author_sort	Abdullah, Abdullah Saeed
title	Corporate governance structure and bank performance in Iraq
title_short	Corporate governance structure and bank performance in Iraq
title_full	Corporate governance structure and bank performance in Iraq
title_fullStr	Corporate governance structure and bank performance in Iraq
title_full_unstemmed	Corporate governance structure and bank performance in Iraq
title_sort	corporate governance structure and bank performance in iraq
granting_institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
granting_department	Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz School of Accountancy (TISSA)
publishDate	2019
url	https://etd.uum.edu.my/9656/1/s823031_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9656/2/s823031_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9656/3/s823031_references.docx
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Corporate governance structure and bank performance in Iraq

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