This study examines the relationship between board structure and performance of Australian listed investment companies (LICs hereafter). With lower fees and simplified taxation over other managed funds, LICs provide a useful investment vehicle. LICs differ from other companies as their customers...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of board size on firms disclosing more, rather than less, strategic and tactical intellectual capital resources using the top 26 of the 52 firms ranked by the Nairobi Stock Exchange for market capitalization in 2002 and in 2003. This...

The sizes of the board and its impact on the performance have received much attention in corporate governance. Among the several factors that account for firm's performance, board related issues are one of the most important ones. Human beings work preeminent in groups of a certain size. A board...

We examine the relationship among board characteristics (network centrality, leadership structure, outsider participation, portion of male directors, director age, and presence of financial experts) and firm-level financial performance (cash holdings, leverage, ROA, risk, and risk-adjusted...

In this study, we investigated the relationships between board structure and financial performance, limited to nonfinancial firms listed on the Vietnam Stock Exchange. First, we found that a dual leadership structure, where the CEO and Chairman positions are held by the same person, was...