Board diversity is important especially in countries which practice a one-tier board system, such as Malaysia. Under the system, board appointments are usually controlled by the firm's substantial shareholders, and as a result, directors are chosen based on “the old-boy” network or “people...

We seek to offer some reconciliation for the conflicting theoretical arguments and empirical findings regarding the impact of women's participation in boards on firms' performance. We suggest that this impact differs in relation to market- and accounting-performance, and it is firm-specific, and...

Purpose: This paper examines the influence of investment opportunities on firm performance and evaluates corporate governance practices in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to determine whether corporate governance quality moderates that influence.Design: A fixed-effects regression was employed to...