This study explores the roles of the board of directors (BOD) (as a proxy for board performance) in Malaysian listed … companies and examines the relationship between board roles and firm performance. Four board roles (strategy, service …, monitoring, and resource dependence) are considered in this study. Questionnaires are used to ascertain the extent of the BOD …

This study investigates the relationship between board of directors and company’s capital structure in context of … been used to examine the linkage between the level of debt and board of directors. Measures of board’s characteristics … employed are size of the board, its independence and duality of leadership. Results reveal that the size of the board affect …

We investigate the effect of board governance and takeover protection on real earnings management. Four types of real … other discretionary expenses) increases with better board governance and decreases with higher takeover protection. These … effect is more pronounced in firms with stronger board governance. Overall, our findings indicate that the level of real …

in the allocation of decision rights between board of directors (representing members) and managers. The traditional role … of the board is to direct the activities of the managers. However, professional management increasingly makes most … strategic decisions, pushing the board into a supervisory role. We present two groups of findings on changing board – management …

Corporate governance ensures that boards are able to exercise appropriate scrutiny over management and that … shareholders, as owners of the company, are able to hold boards accountable. As such, a high level of corporate governance … 2008 both Romania and Hungary launched a new Code of Corporate Governance on the basis of the EU recommendations. In my …

This study examines an important relationship between CEO duality and corporate governance. There are several aspects … and dimensions of corporate governance, which may influence a CEO Duality but this study focused on two aspects namely … Board’s size (Bsize) and Board’s Independence (Bind). In this paper, log of total assets (Size) and total debt divided by …

and board structure using data from the Taiwan Stock Exchange. We find that, other things being equal, CEO cash …, and firms with larger institutional holdings. There is little evidence that board size and board independence affect CEO …