This paper examines the impact of Board characteristics (board size, board independence, and gender) on corporate policy dividend for a set 128 firm-year listed companies manufacturing sector from Amman Stock Exchange between years 2016-2018. The directors have great influence in handling agency conflict. They approve any decision made by executive manager before decisions manner. Also, dividen...

the asia pacific journal of medical toxicology (apjmt) was born in december 2012 to open up new perspectives for dissemination of research in medical toxicology. it was also created to expand the science of medical toxicology, addiction morbidities, drug interactions and adverse effects in the asia pacific region (1,2). the journal has attracted the support of medical toxicologists from differe...

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Companies facing new requirements for governance are scrambling to buttress financial-reporting systems, overhaul board structures--whatever it takes to comply. But there are limits to how much good governance can be imposed from the outside. Boards know what they ought to be: seats of challenge and inquiry that add value without meddling and make CEOs more effective but not all-powerful. A boa...

in the name of God, most gracious, most merciful Physiology and Pharmacology Indexing: Index Copernicus (IC), Scientific Information Database (SID) Physiology and Pharmacology is the official publication of the Iranian Society of Physiology and Pharmacology. The journal publishes full-length original articles in physiology, pharmacology and related subjects. Editorial office: ...

![Graphic][1] Mike Land contemplating discoveries after a long day on board the British Research vessel RRS Discovery, 1987, in Atlantic outside West Africa. Michael Francis – known to his colleagues and friends as Mike was born Dartmouth, UK, 12 April 1942 died

Informatica is a journal primarily covering the European computer science and informatics community; scientific and educational as well as technical, commercial and industrial. Its basic aim is to enhance communications between different European structures on the basis of equal rights and international refereeing. It publishes scientific papers accepted by at least two referees outside the aut...

The most influential theory of corporate governance, principal agency theory, does not take into consideration that the key task of modern corporations is to generate and transfer firm-specific knowledge. It proposes that, in order to overcome the widespread corporate scandals, the interests of top management and directors should be increasingly aligned to shareholder interests by making the bo...