The relationship between board of director's characteristics and industrial firms financial performance listed at Amman Stock Exchange

The relationship between board of director's characteristics and industrial firms financial performance listed at Amman Stock Exchange

The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the relationship between board size, CEO duality, independence of the board of director’s, frequency of board meeting and firm financial performance. About, 64 industrial listed firms are chosen from Amman Stock Exchange for the year 2013. Multiple...

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The relationship between board of director's characteristics and industrial firms financial performance listed at Amman Stock Exchange
description The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the relationship between board size, CEO duality, independence of the board of director’s, frequency of board meeting and firm financial performance. About, 64 industrial listed firms are chosen from Amman Stock Exchange for the year 2013. Multiple regressions analysis is utilised in this study in order to achieve the research objectives. The findings show that board size, CEO duality, independence of the board of director's and frequency of board meeting have a relationship with firm financial performance. The findings also show that board size has a positive relationship with firm financial performance, and CEO duality has a negative relationship with firm financial performance. Moreover, independence of the board of directors has a positive relationship with firm financial performance. Eventually, the frequency of board meeting has no relationship with firm financial performance. It should be noted that the findings established in this study could be useful to regulators, especially the industrial firms listed in Amman Stock Exchange (ASE), Jordanian Securities Commission (JSC) and Jordan Investment Commission (JIC) to improve Corporate Governance (CG) practices. This study proposes that listed firm should put more emphasis on enhancing the role and the quality of the board of directors, as they are involved in the decisions that improve firm financial performance.
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title The relationship between board of director's characteristics and industrial firms financial performance listed at Amman Stock Exchange
title_short The relationship between board of director's characteristics and industrial firms financial performance listed at Amman Stock Exchange
title_full The relationship between board of director's characteristics and industrial firms financial performance listed at Amman Stock Exchange
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spelling my-uum-etd.61732021-04-19T06:36:06Z The relationship between board of director's characteristics and industrial firms financial performance listed at Amman Stock Exchange 2016 Qadorah, Almontaser Abdallah Mohammad Syed Ismail, Syed Soffian Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business HF5601-5689 Accounting The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the relationship between board size, CEO duality, independence of the board of director’s, frequency of board meeting and firm financial performance. About, 64 industrial listed firms are chosen from Amman Stock Exchange for the year 2013. Multiple regressions analysis is utilised in this study in order to achieve the research objectives. The findings show that board size, CEO duality, independence of the board of director's and frequency of board meeting have a relationship with firm financial performance. The findings also show that board size has a positive relationship with firm financial performance, and CEO duality has a negative relationship with firm financial performance. Moreover, independence of the board of directors has a positive relationship with firm financial performance. Eventually, the frequency of board meeting has no relationship with firm financial performance. It should be noted that the findings established in this study could be useful to regulators, especially the industrial firms listed in Amman Stock Exchange (ASE), Jordanian Securities Commission (JSC) and Jordan Investment Commission (JIC) to improve Corporate Governance (CG) practices. This study proposes that listed firm should put more emphasis on enhancing the role and the quality of the board of directors, as they are involved in the decisions that improve firm financial performance. 2016 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/6173/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/6173/1/s817327_01.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/6173/2/s817327_02.pdf text eng public other masters Universiti Utara Malaysia Abdul Rahman, R., & Haneem Mohamed Ali, F. (2006). Board, audit committee, culture and earnings management: Malaysian evidence. Managerial Auditing Journal, 21(7), 783-804. Abdullah, H., & Valentine, B. (2009). Fundamental and ethics theories of corporate governance. Middle Eastern Finance and Economics, 4, 88-963 Abdullah, S. N. (2004). Board composition, CEO duality and performance among Malaysian listed companies. Corporate Governance, 4(4), 47-61. Abdullatif, M., & Al-Khadash, H. A. (2010). Putting audit approaches in context: the case of business risk audits in Jordan. 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