This paper analyzes the impact of Corporate Governance Index and individual corporate governance dimension such as Board Activity, Board Size, Board Independence, Gender Diversity on Board and CEO Duality on financial performance of firms in emerging markets of South Asian Markets, specifically,...

We study the effect of board governance in state-owned and private banks by undertaking a study of commercial banks in India that has both bank groups. Covering a ten-year period from 2003 to 2012 that witnessed a large number of governance reforms in India, the results of our empirical analysis...

Using an econometric framework, I have tried to establish the relationship between Tobin's Q and family shareholding. While there is no unequivocal causality established by theories, empirical evidences present wide variation in findings. By controlling several firm and industry specific...

This paper investigates the influence of macroeconomic forces on Corporate Governance (CG) performance in India. The main goal is to identify the macroeconomic factors and their nature of effects on CG through econometric analysis. As part of this investigation, statistical significance of...

This paper discusses the effects of Corporate Governance (CG) on corporate performance. This study investigates the nature and intensity of influence CG exercises on the firm performance. The main goal is to prove that CG is a determinant for firm performance. Main attention was paid to ANOVA...

The study of corporate governance is gaining momentum as corporate governance compliance has been made mandatory. Even though made mandatory, the number of corporate governance issues are on the rise. The high profile scandals in Enron, World Com and also the Satyam scandal, Tata Mistry issues...

The paper attempts to analyze inter-linkages between corporate governance, ownership structure, capital structure and firm performance in India. The study employs a panel data of all CNX Nifty companies from 2008 to 2012. Using LSDV panel data models and 2SLS model the study reveals that that...

Prior work in India does not consider the effect of Related Party Transactions on performance in detail. There is no study that considers Related Party Transactions as motivation to tunnel and prop up the firms. This direct method approach of Tunneling and Propping is the focus of this chapter....

Corporate governance has become the latest buzzword in India triggered by the series of scandals and failures in the corporate world. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of corporate governance on firm performance for a large representative sample of Indian manufacturing firms for...

The belief that better CG leads to superior firm performance is widespread. Extant literature, however, has not consistently identified a relationship between CG and performance. The aim of this paper is to provide an exploratory inquiry into the dimensions and measurement of CG and to...