Determinants that contribute to the performance of family firms in Malaysia / Nursyafikah Mohd Khanapi

Almost half of the richest person in Malaysia had conducted family businesses and this has contributed in creating numbers of tycoons with their respective business fields. Thus, this study is carried out to analyze the performance of top family firms as well as to investigate what had contributed t...

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Main Author: Mohd Khanapi, Nursyafikah
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/58100/1/58100.pdf
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Summary:Almost half of the richest person in Malaysia had conducted family businesses and this has contributed in creating numbers of tycoons with their respective business fields. Thus, this study is carried out to analyze the performance of top family firms as well as to investigate what had contributed to the excellent performance of these top family firms. A total of 14 family firms from the businesses of top 30 richest people in Malaysia for the year 2015 were selected for the purpose of this study. Therefore, it is found in this study that all the three independent variables (Growth, Earnings per Share and Firm Size) have impacts on the performance of family firms in Malaysia.