Independent directors

The growth of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods - FMCG requires businesses to be more attentive and concerned about the role of the non-financial information disclosure to meet a competitive advantage and enhance long-term development. This research identifies factors that can affect the non-financial information level of the FMCG companies listed in Vietnam Stock Market. The results show that profitability ratio, business size, independent auditing firms and the number of members of board of directors have a positive impact on the company's nonfinancial information disclosure level.

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The aim of this paper was to investigate the impact of board of directors' characteristics on the profitability ratio of Thai public non-life insurers. A Hausman test was employed on the selection between fixed and random effects in our panel data for a sample of 208 firmyears from 2000 to 2012.

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It also reveals that, compared to non-group firms, group firms with greater connectedness of independent directors face more limited access to external finance. Our results survive extensive robustness checks and provide a negative counterpoint to the positive correlation between independent board busyness and corporate performance.

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In this study, we examine how ownership structure affects the use of independent directors in Vietnam – an emerging stock market. With a sample of 1,318 observations collected from 192 listed firms over the period from 2008 to 2017, we find that insider ownership and independent director appointment have a U-shaped relationship. It is positive when insiders hold a small proportion of shares, and turns out to be negative when insiders hold a large percentage of shares.

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Credit institutions in Viet Nam regulated under Law on Credit Institutions(1) consist of commercial banks, non-bank credit institutions, and cooperative banks. The commercial banks are allowed to perform all types of banking activities and for profit purpose. The internal audit activity is established under direct supervision of Board of Supervisors (hereafter called BOS), which is elected by General Shareholders’ Meeting. As a consequence, the internal audit activity is expected to retain organizational independence as having direct access to Board of Directors (hereafter called BOD), BOS.

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The author used a pooled cross-sectional data set of 498 Fortune Japanese and American firms between 2006 and 2011 and fixed effects estimation method. The author analysed the results by employing a comparative approach between the two national contexts.

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This paper investigates the impact of corporate governance on firm value measured by Tobin’s Q. Different corporate governance proxies i.e. board size, board independence, audit committee and CEO duality are interacted with firm value.

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This study examined the effect of board diversity on the financial performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria. The study also examined the relationship between board independence and financial performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria.

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With a full sample of 1,281 observations collected from 193 firms listed in Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange during the period from 2009 to 2017, the author find that the proportion of independent directors is negatively related to firm investment but its interactive term with Tobin’s Q is positively related to corporate investment. These findings imply that independent directors can help firms reduce overinvestment and improve investment efficiency. Moreover, the research findings indicate that these effects of independent directors are stronger for financially constrained firms.

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The Securities and Futures Bureau (SFB) of Taiwan prescribes that firms applying for an initial listing after February 2002 must have at least two seats of independent directors (IDs) on the board. Under the SFB 2002 rules, this paper investigates the effect of such governance reforms in ID requirement on the long-run performance of IPOs. Our results, based on 494 IPOs between 1999 and 2005, find that though IPOs typically underperform in the post-issue period, firms after 2002 perform better than those before 2002.

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The separation of ownership and managerial control in public corporations increases the organizational implications of the CEO-Board relationship. Boards of Directors and CEOs play an integral role in shaping firm strategies; therefore, this study examines the effect of CEO tenure and the moderating influence of independent directors on corporate innovation. Using a data set of electronics firms listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporations, this study finds an inverted-U relationship between CEO tenure and corporate innovation (i.e.

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The SRI farmers have been realized more of 8.42 quintals of paddy grain per hectare over the traditional method of paddy cultivation. On the other hand, the SRI farmers have been realized lower of 1.29 quintals of paddy by-product per hectare over traditional method of paddy cultivation. Information collected from, Deputy Director of Agriculture, Office of Katni district.

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The purpose of this paper is to enhance understanding of corporate governance (CG) in the banking sector and to explore the existence and practice of corporate governance mechanisms in United Arab Emirates (UAE) national commercial banks. More specifically, the paper is targeted to examine whether the mechanisms forced by the law; Board of Directors, Auditors, Audit Committee and Credit Committee, are used by UAE banks and if the majority of these banks choose independent boards.

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This study is targeted to enhance understanding of corporate governance (CG) in the banking sector and to examine the existence and practice of CG mechanisms in United Arab Emirates (UAE) Conventional Banks (CBs) and Islamic Banks (IBs). More specifically, the paper aims to explore to what degree corporate governance structures and practices used by CBs and IBs are different, including CG mechanisms forced by the law (Board of Directors, Auditors, Audit Committee and Credit Committee) and other CG modes adopted voluntarily by these banks.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the link between one of the corporate governance mechanisms employed to effectively monitor managers and align their goals with those of shareholders, number of independent directors on the board and capital structure for 68 firms listed on Saudi Arabian stock exchange for the period 2010-2014.

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By using the panel data of China’s listed companies from 1999 to 2013 in the CSMAR database, this paper empirically finds that top management team (hereinafter referred to as TMT) size has a significant impact on corporate performance and presents an inverted U-shaped relationship, with the optimal TMT size being about 14 to 15. But the influence of TMT size is no longer significant after controlling board size, that is to say, board size is the core problem of executive governance.

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In this paper, we use 1,003 observations from 169 firms listed in Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange over the period from 2010 to 2017 to investigate the role of independent directors in firm profitability. We find that there is a positive association between the number of independent directors and firm performance.

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Trước khi xuất hiện những khó khăn đã nhận chìm Enron và nhiều công ty cổ phần khác, ví dụ như Worldcom, Tyco, v.v..., việc quản trị công ty cổ phần ở nhiều quốc gia, đặc biệt là ở Hoa Kỳ, dựa trên ba nguyên tắc sau: Thứ nhất, sử dụng các thành viên Hội đồng Quản trị (HĐQT) độc lập (independent directors) để kiềm chế quyền lực của ban giám đốc, đồng thời bảo vệ quyền lợi của các cổ đông. Thứ hai, sử dụng và tín nhiệm giới kế toán để trình báo cáo tài chính có tính...

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“Whether it’s OEM or third party, the equipment itself should cost about the same,” says Tucker. “It’s the service contract that tends to be different and cost a little more through the OEM. But for good reason: a third-party vendor might be a one- or two-person operation, which means if your equipment goes down there may be a delay in service.” Additional factors to consider if dealing with a third-party vendor are the vendor’s inventory supply and how it handles a sale.

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