Do global financial market conditions affect the financial structure and performance of companies in the travel and leisure sector? The economic conditions of tourist generating areas are assumed to play important roles in global travel, especially for emerging economies where international...

The current study investigates the relationship between family firm board structure and financial performance in Sri Lanka. This study uses five years (2006-2010) of data from 65 family firms listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE). In order to investigate the impact of board structure on...

This study examines the issue of gender diversity on boards of firms listed on the New Zealand Stock exchange (NZX). New Zealand was chosen because it has one of the lowest rates of women on public-company boards in the western world, according to data from the Institute of Directors. In...

In this study, a sample of 257 Singaporean domiciled non-financial listed companies is investigated using a system generalised method of moments (system GMM) estimator. This approach allows for controlling the potential sources of endogeneity which are inherent in the performance–governance...

This study examines the relationship between corporate governance and financial performance of Sri Lankan Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). The OLS regression, fixed effect and random effect models are used to analysis an unbalanced panel data comprising 300 firm-year observations over the...