This paper examines the impact of cash holdings and board governance characteristics on companies' performance by Egyptian listed non-financial companies over the period 2013-2019. The researchers employed pooled ordinary least squares and two-step system GMM estimations to test their research...

This Ph.D. thesis is a cumulative dissertation of three studies that aim to contribute to the reevaluation of corporate governance mechanisms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which is a relatively unexplored region in the literature despite the prevalence of unique taxonomies and...

Previous research on the effect of board characteristics mostly examines established firms. This raises the question of whether the findings from the board characteristics literature are applicable to rapidly growing enterprises, as their corporate governance landscape can be very different from...

Board composition is central to the worldwide corporate governance reforms that have taken place in recent years. The strong emphasis on director independence and board leadership is now part of all corporate governance regimes, including the regimes which has been introduced in Malaysia. It is...

The function of the board in financial institutions differs from that of non-financial institutions because the board of directors’ discretionary power would be limited, particularly in regulated financial systems where financial institutions must operate under legislative and prescriptive...