To develop a comprehensive measurement index that captures a wide range of independent director characteristics that collectively reflect their overall resource provision capability in the context of Malaysian publicly-listed companies. A detailed content analysis of independent director-related...

This paper investigates directors’ relationships with firms’ managers, using lenses of resource dependence theory and resource based view. Because of different roles that board members perform in modern organisations we seek to find out what boardmanagement relationships may provide a...

Objective: The objective of the article is to empirically examine the effects of three resource categories based on the resource-based view - represented by firm size, top manager’s experience, and closeness to governments - on family firms tax aggressiveness in emerging countries. Research...