Does Foreign Ownership Improve Financial Constraints in Weak Corporate Governance Environment? Evidence from Malaysia

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ei Yet Chu ◽  
Saw-Imm Song
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Financial Constraints ◽  
Foreign Ownership ◽  
Governance Environment

The Role of Foreign, Family Ownership and Audit Committee in Evaluating the Company as a Going Concern: Evidence from Jordan

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bilal Nayef Zureigat ◽  
Faudziah Hanim Fadzil ◽  
Syed Soffian Syed Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Foreign Ownership ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
Ols Regression ◽  
Going Concern ◽  
Relationship Of

This study discusses the association between foreign, family ownership and audit committee on the going concern evaluation among Jordanian listed companies for the years 2011 and 2012. The data reveal through using OLS regression that there is a negative and not significant relationship between foreign ownership and going concern evaluation, while a negative significant relationship with family ownership. In addition, this study also finds a positive and significant relationship of audit committee with the going concern evaluation.The results alsoshow that most of the Jordanian companies have violated some of Corporate Governance requirements. For instance, approximately 43% of Jordanian firms did not have an audit committee. This study shows valuable insights to the understanding of factors that may affect going concern evaluation among Jordanian firms. Therefore, the findings of this study provide important conclusions for investors, regulators and policymakers and academics to shed the light on the mechanisms that ensure the continuity of companies.

Corporate governance, globalization and firm performance in emerging economies

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (8) ◽  
pp. 1310-1333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neha Saini ◽  
Monica Singhania
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Foreign Capital ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Foreign Ownership ◽  
Foreign Firms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine relationship between corporate governance (CG) and firm performance for a set of 255 foreign-funded firms in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI) and private equity (PE). The authors employ a wide range of CG measures including board size, meetings, board gender and foreign ownership which are used as the proxy of globalisation and control variables like firm age, leverage, firm size and capital expenditure to arrive at a conclusion.Design/methodology/approachPanel data set of 255 (187 companies funded by foreign capital in the form of FDI, and 68 companies having foreign capital in the form PE) companies listed on Bombay Stock Exchange, for the period of eight years (2008–2015) are analysed by using static (fixed and random effects) and dynamic (generalised method of moments (GMM)) panel data specifications to examine the relationship among CG, globalisation and firm performance.FindingsThe empirical results of static model indicate the relationship between CG and performance of foreign firms, which are not very strong in India. This is due to the fact that most of the firms are not following the guidelines and regulations strictly in the initial period of sample years. Diversity in board is found as an important variable in accessing firm performance. And the authors also found that foreign firms are very particular about the implementation of CG norms. The results of GMM model highlight the interaction term of foreign ownership with governance indicators. CG is having a positive and significant impact over performance, inferring that higher foreign ownership (in the form of FDI and PE) in firm leading to positive effect on profitability.Practical implicationsThe investor’s preference of financing a unit is guided by the performance of a firm. Investors are more inclined towards high-performing firms, and hence higher profitability leads to higher inflow of capital. The result indicates that higher accounting and market performance may be achieved by good governance practices, in turn, leading to reduced agency costs. Countries with high governance scores attract more of foreign capital. Similar to the best governed countries, the companies having good governance practices attract more foreign inflows in the form of capital.Originality/valueWhile previous literature considered a single measurement framework in the form of a CG index, the authors tried to incorporate a range of CG indicators to study the effect of globalisation and CG on firm performance. The authors segregated foreign-owned funds into two parts, especially FDI and PE. This paper examined heterogeneity in the form of FDI-funded and PE-funded firms, as no prior literature is available which has evaluated different sets of foreign funds simultaneously on CG.

Corporate Governance and Accountability in the Age of Multilevel Governance in Turkey

2019 ◽  
pp. 117-139
Author(s):  
Gülşah Atağan
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Multilevel Governance ◽  
Governance Environment ◽  
Commercial Code ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Turkish Commercial Code ◽  
Legal Infrastructure

Corporate governance and accountability are getting more and more important both for world and Turkish economies thanks to increasing competitiveness conditions among companies. Applications of corporate governance principles can show differences from country to country. In Turkey, The Capital Markets Board issued corporate governance principles in 2003 to improve the corporate governance environment and integrate the Turkish capital market with global financial markets. The board has also adopted these principles in 2005 and made them final. The new Turkish Commercial Code is based on corporate governance principles. The new Turkish Commercial Code constitutes the legal infrastructure for corporate governance practices.

scholarly journals Impact of Corporate Governance on Firms’ Financial Flexibility in the Emerging Economy: Evidence From Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Md Rashidul Islam ◽  
Man Wang ◽  
Muhammad Zulfiqar
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Financial Constraints ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Financial Flexibility ◽  
Book Value ◽  
Internal Funds ◽  
Debt Capacity ◽  
The Relationship

Corporate governance has a positive impact on firm performance. Financial flexible firms are a better performer when there are financial constraints as well as financial crises. However, what motivates financial flexibility is a dearth research area in the existing finance literature. The objectives of this research are to investigate the relationship between corporate governance and financial flexibility; how corporate governance influence financial flexibility; and, what factors of corporate governance are dominant to influence financial flexibility. To pursue the research objectives we chose Cement Industry of Bangladesh as a case. We consider liquidity, Internal Funds and Unused debt capacity as the proxy of financial flexibility and Ownership Concentration, Board Size, Board Independence as Corporate Governance variables and Firm Size, Market to Book Ratio, Debt Capacity, Financial Constraints and Firm Age as control variable to estimate the relationship between corporate governance and financial flexibility. This study evidences that Board Structure has no significant influence on firms’ cash holding(Liquidity).However, Firms Age and Market to Book Value have a significant influence on firms' cash position. This study also finds that Ownership Structure has no positive impact on Firms' Unused Debt Capacity but Financial Constraints and Market to Book Value have a positive significant impact on firms' unused debt capacity. However, Firm Size has a positive relationship with Internal Funds.

The Rise of Foreign Ownership and Corporate Governance

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merritt B. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Foreign Ownership ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Causal Pathways ◽  
Dramatic Rise ◽  
The Subject

This chapter explores the link between corporate governance and the rise of foreign ownership. It presents statistics that illustrate the dramatic rise in foreign ownership over the last few decades and then seeks to explain this rise and its relationship to corporate governance. In order to situate the subject under study within its larger context, this explanation starts with an exploration of the factors independent of corporate-governance considerations that favor a global market for securities and those that impede it. It will be shown that the rise in foreign ownership globally can be explained in significant part by the weakening of the impeding factors. The chapter then shows why, as a matter of theory, improvements in corporate governance can be expected to cause a rise in foreign ownership and a rise in foreign ownership can be expected to cause improvements in corporate governance, with the weakening in the non-corporate-governance factors that impede a global market for securities acting as a catalyst for the causal pathwayings going in both directions. The chapter concludes with a review of substantial empirical evidence suggesting that both causal pathways are in fact at work.

Motivations for Classification Shifting: A Systematic Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Nisreen Mohammed Almaleeh
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Earnings Management ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Special Items ◽  
Governance Environment ◽  
Classification Shifting ◽  
Earnings Benchmarks

The purpose of the current paper is to highlight the motivations that may encourage managements of firms to shift core expenses to special items in order to inflate core or operating earnings i.e. to practice classification shifting, which would have an effect on the decisions of financial statements' users. This was done through conducting a systematic review on the available literature about classification shifting. The most obvious findings to emerge from this study is that management may engage in classification shifting for the reason that it is less costly than other earnings management methods, the firm being in current or potential state of financial distress, the desire of the management of the firm to meet or beat earnings benchmarks, the ownership structure of the firm having some characteristics that encourage management to engage in such a practice, the firm performing in a weak corporate governance environment, or due to the fact that classification shifting is tough to be detected by external monitors compared to other earnings management methods.

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