Board of Directors: The Topmost Internal Governance Mechanism

2004 ◽  
pp. 91-120
Accounting ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 987-992
Author(s):  
Khaled Salmen Aljaaidi ◽  
Abdulaziz Alothman ◽  
Raj Bahadur Sharma ◽  
Omar Ali Bagais

This paper examines the association of the presence of royal family members on the board of directors with audit committee effectiveness. The sample of this study consists of 444 listed manufactured firms in Saudi Arabia for the period 2012-2019. Using the Pooled OLS regression, the result of the study shows that royal family ownership is associated with audit committee effectiveness, giving support to the substitution hypothesis. The result indicates that members from the royal families are good monitors imposed into the companies' managements as both taking the role of decision makers and owners who may substitute the effectiveness of the audit committee. The presence of royal family members on the board has an alternative for the effectiveness of the audit committee. The marginal effect of audit committee effectiveness as an internal corporate governance mechanism is substituted by the presence of royal family members on the board. This study provides insightful evidence to regulators and policy makers at the company and country levels on the relationship of royal family ownership and audit committee effectiveness.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Mira Diyanty ◽  
Meina Wulansari Yusniar

<em><span lang="EN-US">The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of the Good Corporate Governance mechanism on the board of commissioners, the board of directors, the proportion of independent commissioners, the audit committee, CAR on ROA. This study also uses a purposive sampling method for sampling. The analysis test used is multiple linear regression analysis. The population used by companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period 2011 - 2013 and which meet the sample selection criteria. The sample used was 25 companies. Data is collected through secondary data collection in the form of the company's annual report for the period 2011 - 2013 which is published on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The research hypothesis was tested by multiple linear regression which had met the testing of classical assumptions. The results of the analysis show that the board of commissioners, the proportion of independent commissioners, audit committees, CAR does not significantly influence ROA while the board of directors has a positive and significant effect on ROA.</span></em>


Author(s):  
Sami Ben Mim ◽  
Yosra Mbarki

This study investigates the efficiency of the Shariah supervisory board as a corporate governance mechanism in Islamic banks. The authors mainly seek to examine the effect of the Shariah board's composition (size and academic background of its members) on the performance of Islamic banks. They also try to highlight the transmission channels explaining this effect, and compare the efficiency of the Shariah board with that of traditional corporate governance mechanisms, namely the board of directors. The empirical investigation is based on a sample of 72 Islamic banks from 19 countries. Estimation results suggest that the Shariah board positively affects the Islamic banks performance through the number of Islamic Shariah scholars. This effect is mainly due to the size and cost transmission channels. These results are robust to different performance measures. On the other hand, results show that the board of directors' size produces a positive effect on a bank's performance, offering evidence for complementarity between traditional and Islamic governance mechanisms.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Xinyuan Zhang ◽  
Zhixiu Guo ◽  
Xiaorui Feng ◽  
Yan He

The equity structure is the basis for corporate governance, and the decisive factor for performance of listed companies. Considering the return on equity as the measure index of company performance, the paper has collected 2014-2016 data related to index of equity structure from 32 listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen, made descriptive statistical analysis and correlation analysis on it with spass20.0 statistical software, and discussed the relation between equity structure and performance of listed companies. The research finds that: Chinese listed companies for building industry still have relatively high equity concentration, imperfect internal governance mechanism and poor equity restriction. The effect of “bargaining” is difficultly developed to promote the growth of performance. China shall further strengthen the efforts to control, spur listed companies to reinforce the internal management, and optimize the equity structure to ensure the effective balance, with the purpose of accelerating the healthy and sustainable development of listed companies and safeguarding the interests of medium-small investors.


2014 ◽  
Vol 998-999 ◽  
pp. 1634-1637
Author(s):  
Xu Bei Zhang

This paper proceeds as follows. Corporate governance, broadly speaking, is a science which studies enterprise power arrangement. In the narrow sense, it belongs to the ownership of enterprises; it is a science which researches how to empower professional managers and to use regulatory authority to their performance of duties. The improvement of the efficiency of the state-controlled corporate governance depends on the choice of corporate governance mechanism. Constrained by the institutional environment, the corporate governance is also affected by the internal governance structure. State-owned enterprises still face great difficulties when they manager to make a clear boundary between the central enterprises and government, separate ownership and management completely, achieve a sound governance structure. Temasek has a high quality management mode. The company special board composition and the control method of the layered progressive and effective restraint mechanism play a key role. State-owned enterprises can learn from Temasek’s experience of corporate governance, and promote the reform of the governance structure, to stimulate the vitality of enterprises.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Stella Lippolis ◽  
Francesco Grimaldi

This research aims to analyze the relationship between the characteristics of the Board of Directors (BoD) and the effectiveness of the monitoring of earnings manipulation activities in family &ndash; controlled companies in Italy. In particular, specific hypotheses relating to the link between those aspects of the Board, that substantiate its independence, and earnings quality have been formulated to verify whether the mechanisms for monitoring management activity are less effective in these companies. This study applies a univariate and multivariate methods on a sample of Italian listed company over the period 2014-2016.&nbsp; Earnings management is defined by the proxy of abnormal working capital accrual (AWCA) estimed model according to DeFond and Park (2001). Proxies for corporate governance mechanism are the board size, the level of board independence, the CEO non-duality and the interaction between the last two variables. The research shows that independent directors are not, as in other contexts, a factor that contributes to earnings quality, in the same way that the separation of the offices of Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief executive Officer (CEO) does not appear to be relevant to this end. The study aims to provide a double contribution. First, the research represents one of the few studies concerning the Italian context with its peculiarities, taking into consideration the earnings management issue in companies with a high concentration of family ownership. Secondly, this study aims to further stimulate the debate on the most effective features of structure and composition of the BoD in family-controlled companies: specifically, the conclusions could lead to a reconsideration of the validity of certain characters of the boards that defines independence.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-287
Author(s):  
Desi Pipian Pujakusum

This study aims to examine the effect of good corporate governance mechanism on the financial performance of banking companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange 2012-2016 period. The corporate governance mechanism is proxied by the size of the board of directors, the size of the board of commissioners, audit committee size, the board of director's education, and the board of commissioner’s education. The company's financial performance is proxied by return on assets (ROA). Samples were taken by using purposive sampling. The total number of samples used in this study amounted to 180 research samples. This study was tested with SPSS 20 program. Data analysis technique used in this research is simple regression analysis.  The results showed that the size of the board of directors, the size of the board of commissioners, and audit comitee size have a significant effect on return on assets. These three factors have a significant effect on return on assets, while the board of commissioners education and the board of director's education have no significant effect on return on assets.


Accounting ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 1655-1660
Author(s):  
Khaled Salmen Aljaaidi

This paper examines the impact of the government and its agencies’ ownership on the effectiveness of one the main internal governance mechanisms, namely; board of directors, for a sample of 140 energy and petrochemical Saudi listed firms over 2012-2019. The Saudi Arabia provides an interesting context due to the domination of government-linked corporations’ ownership. This setting arranges for the impact of such ownership on the board of directors’ monitoring and advisory roles. The board of directors’ effectiveness is measured as an interaction term of the board size and meetings of the board of directors. The study finds that government-linked energy and petrochemical corporations’ ownerships are inversely related to the board of directors’ effectiveness. This result is sensitive to the measurement of the board of directors’ effectiveness as each variable consisting of the board of directors’ effectiveness was examined individually. The study also finds that government-linked corporations’ ownership had a strong negative impact on the board size. In contrast, the proposed model does not provide any evidence supporting the relationship of the government-linked corporations’ ownerships with board meetings. Overall, the evidence supports the substitution hypothesis on the relationship of government-linked corporations and board of directors’ effectiveness.


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