Board Composition, Board Activity and Ownership Concentration, the Impact on Firm Performance

Board Independence, Ownership Structure and Firm Performance: Evidence from Pakistan

The present study carried out to examine the relationship between ownership structure, board independence and firm performance of eighty listed firms at KSE for the period of 2005-2009. Performance is evaluated with the help of market based and accounting based performance measures. Marris ratio and Tobin‟s Q are used as estimators of market performance, while ROA, ROE has been used as accounti...

1 Board Diversity and Firm Performance Volatility

Diverse directors may have diverse preferences over firms’ policies or even objectives. As shown by Arrow (1951), diverse individual preferences may fail to univocally aggregate in collective preferences and may consequently lead to arbitrary and volatile decisions. Using the board of directors as a laboratory, we test whether diversity leads to higher performance volatility. We show that firms...

thesis title: a study of the relationship between board composition and firm performance in tse

the ability of boards to perform their roles depends largely on their composition. board composition refers to the number of directors and type of members as determined by the usual insider or outsider classification. several empirical studies in other country have concluded that board composition determines a board’s power as an instrument of corporate control and contributes to company perfor...

Do the Board of Directors Composition and the Board Interlocking Influence on Performance?

Effects of Family Ownership, Debt and Board Composition on Mexican Firms Performance

This study examines the relationship between ownership structure and performance of public firms in Mexico, considering debt and the structure of the board of directors as contextual and institutional factors. This research seeks to explain the mixed results about the relationship of ownership and performance presented by other relevant studies in family and non-family businesses, mainly in eme...