Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether internal attributes of corporate governance such as board size, outside directors, CEO duality, managerial ownership, and ownership concentration affect the performance of Pakistani firms. Design/methodology/approach – Panel...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether capital structure affects the performance of non-financial firms in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach – Panel econometric techniques namely pooled ordinary least squares (OLS), fixed effects, and random effects were used to...

Purpose – The aim of this empirical study is to investigate whether corporate governance attributes such as board size, outside directors, ownership concentration, managerial ownership, director remuneration, and CEO duality affect capital structure choices of Pakistani firms....

Purpose – The aim of this empirical study is to explore the factors that affect the capital structure of manufacturing firms and to investigate whether the capital structure models derived from Western settings provide convincing explanations for capital structure decisions of the Pakistani...