The Impact Of Internal Corporate Governance On Firm Performance

Internal Corporate governance refers to the controlling mechanism of various internal actors of a firm. The aim of the study is to explore the impact of internal corporate governance (CG) mechanism on firm performance in three Asian countries namely Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Singapore. Results show that Board Size, Board Independence and CEO Duality have impact on firm performance. Though the impact of CG on firm performance is significant in Singapore, the impact is not significant in Bangladesh and Malaysia. These findings of the study have significant implications to public policy makers and corporate managers to understand the evolution and effectiveness of internal CG practices in different Asian countries.

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The purpose of this paper is to explore effect of internal corporate governance mechanisms on company performance. Whether a good corporate governance causes higher firm performance is still a valid research question for reasons like ambiguity regarding the direction of causality. An empirical study was conducted in studying the effect of different of corporate governance internal mechanisms on corporate performance. The result of showed that internal corporate governance mechanism represented by Ownership Structure, Board of Directors, Management Remuneration, Internal Control & Audit and Transparency & Disclosure have a great effect on corporate performance. The corporate performance evaluation criteria's used in this study: Financial Viability, Corporate Growth, Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Risk Reduction are affected by Internal corporate governance mechanisms. The study reveals also that corporate governance affects highly company performance in the medium to long term runs but in the short term performance does not necessarily depend on governance.

A critical glance at the literature review of GCC countries, firm performance and firm value shows that the literature does not adequately consider the uniqueness of an institutional setting such as the presence of royal family members and government officials,Äô members on the board. Additionally, noticeable features are not accounted for in the previous literature, such as a large involvement of relatives and the presence of a female on the board of directors. It is important to understand whether these variables matter or not in this region as this then influences the firm,Äôs performance and firm value. Thus, this study focuses on the effect of internal CG of the firm,Äôs performance and firm value in five GCC countries. The final sample consists of 220 firms (1,096 firm-year observations) for the fiscal year 2009 to 2013. The main finding is that there is a positive significant relationship is seen between expertise factors and firm performance. The expertise factor encompasses royal family members on the board as well as hiring one of the Big 4-auditing firms. This result is in line with a theoretical claim (agency theory), the research question expectation and empirical evidence.