Dasahi, Norliza and Md Rus, Rohani and Abdullah, Nur Adiana Hiau (2016) Board of director composition impact on financial distress. In: International Conference on Government & Public Affairs 2016 (ICOGPA2016), October 5th - 6th, 2016, School of Government, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia.

PDF Restricted to Registered users only Download (647kB) | Request a copy

Abstract

As the number of companies fall into financial distress increasing, while corporate governance is name to be one of the factors, more studies has focused on their relationship.Among the corporate governance mechanism being studied frequently is board of directors’ characteristics including board size, proportion of independent directors and potential duality.Those are the variables being examined in this paper.Based on the previous literature, however, there is no conclusive argument can be made on whether all these three variables are positively or negatively related to financial distress.The inconclusive argument could due to the type of data being employed, for example between financial and non-financial data.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	ISBN 97898344661-7-6 Organized by: School of Government, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia..
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Board Size, independent Directors, Duality.
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Divisions:	School of Economics, Finance & Banking
Depositing User:	Mrs. Norliza Dasahi
Date Deposited:	21 Dec 2016 01:46
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2020 02:02
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20401

Actions (login required)

View Item