Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the relationship between audit committee characteristics and firm performance, and whether family ownership and involvement moderate the latter relationship.Design/methodology/approach - Following Anderson and Reeb (2003), this paper...

We examine the association between ownership structure and dividend payout policy in a family firms dominated economy. More specifically, we test whether family firms pay higher dividend compared to counter non-family firms in Bangladesh. We argue that family firms are more likely to pay higher...

This research investigates the significant influence of family ownership on the firm performance in order to provide information to decision maker and other interested parties. The analysis includes comparison between family and non-family firm performance in Indonesia. The samples are taken...

This paper investigates the impact of the founding family's presence on CEO turnover decisions. We find that family firms managed by CEOs outside the founding family (i.e., professional CEO family firms) have higher CEO turnover-performance sensitivity than family firms managed by family members...

Family business literature shows that family and nonfamily firms differ with respect to their financial reporting decisions. However, although the literature on financial reporting in fami - ly firms has developed over the last ten years, it is mostly oriented towards earnings management and...

In the face of business competition, a company strategy is needed by seeking and exploiting opportunities in the business environment, one of which is through political connections. Ownership structure plays an essential role in the company to determine the firm performance. The high...

Corporate governance literature advances the idea that certain aspects of board of directors' structure improve monitoring of managerial decisions. Among these is the managers' decision to manage earnings. Prior studies have shown that earnings management, in widely-held public companies, is...

This paper examines the impact of cash holdings and board governance characteristics on companies' performance by Egyptian listed non-financial companies over the period 2013-2019. The researchers employed pooled ordinary least squares and two-step system GMM estimations to test their research...

This study aimed to analyze the relationship between the director pay slice and firm financial performance. This study used 1024 observations from companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2011 to 2019. The analytical technique used in this study was ordinary least square regression...

This research examines the relationship between politically connected independent commissioners and independent directors on firm performance. The sample are all listed companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) from 2010-2017. In this study, we employ the ordinary least squares (OLS)...