The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between corporate governance characteristics and valuation of the firm's performance in Iran. After designing performance evaluation indexes, information of transactions made during the five-year study from 2011 to 2015 from the Stock Exchange were collected and the sample consists of 129 companies was selected by systematic elimination ...

An extensive finance literature has suggested that independent (outside) directors monitor firm management and thereby increase firm value. Monitoring by a firm’s independent directors is, however, costly and the level of board monitoring should be endogenously determined as a function of firm characteristics. We show that a negative relationship between board monitoring and uncertainty is a di...

Integrated reporting (IR) is the latest topic in corporate that has raised interest disclosure literature. Although board’s role IR practice received significant attention developed countries, this effect still unexamined an emerging market like Malaysia. Thus, study sought to fill gap literature by investigating impact of board directors’ characteristics on quantity and quality disclosure. The...

Purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between board monitoring and firm performance after controlling the endogeneity and multicollinearity problem that exist in most corporate governance research. Prior studies failed to establish any significant relationship between board monitoring and firm performance because of not properly control for endogeneity and multicollinearity probl...

This paper studied the relationship between the management characteristics and the earnings forecast disclosure willingness within Chinese listed companies. Management characteristics were being defined and summarized as four aspects: structure characteristics, incentive characteristics, background characteristics and external governance mechanism. The Logistic regression model was applied to c...