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Relationship between board gender diversity and firm performance: Evidence from Malaysian firms / Mohd Fairuz Adnan, Nurshamimi Sabli and Azizah Abdullah

The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between board diversity and firm performance of 26 government-linked companies (GLCs) and 26 non-government-linked companies (non-GLCs) in Malaysia. The study focuses on gender variable to explain the board diversity and tests its relations...

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Main Authors: Adnan, Mohd Fairuz, Sabli, Nurshamimi, Abdullah, Azizah
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Pahang 2013
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Industrial productivity
Organizational effectiveness. Performance measurement
Leadership in women. Women executives
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29599/1/29599.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.295992020-10-09T05:39:12Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29599/ Relationship between board gender diversity and firm performance: Evidence from Malaysian firms / Mohd Fairuz Adnan, Nurshamimi Sabli and Azizah Abdullah Adnan, Mohd Fairuz Sabli, Nurshamimi Abdullah, Azizah Industrial productivity Organizational effectiveness. Performance measurement Leadership in women. Women executives The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between board diversity and firm performance of 26 government-linked companies (GLCs) and 26 non-government-linked companies (non-GLCs) in Malaysia. The study focuses on gender variable to explain the board diversity and tests its relationship towards firm performance as measured by return on equity (ROE) and return on asset (ROA). A final sample of 196 GLCs and non-GLCs listed on the Bursa Malaysia are used across four years from 2007 to 2010. The results fail to satisfy the expectation made for this study, thus rejecting the hypothesis that gender board diversity is positively related to firm performance. In conclusion, this study could not establish that gender diversity on boards would enhance firm performance due to the small average samples of women directors on the board of Malaysian companies. Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Pahang 2013-12 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29599/1/29599.pdf Adnan, Mohd Fairuz and Sabli, Nurshamimi and Abdullah, Azizah (2013) Relationship between board gender diversity and firm performance: Evidence from Malaysian firms / Mohd Fairuz Adnan, Nurshamimi Sabli and Azizah Abdullah. Gading Journal for the Social Sciences, 17 (02). pp. 21-40. ISSN 2600-7568
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topic Industrial productivity
Organizational effectiveness. Performance measurement
Leadership in women. Women executives
spellingShingle Industrial productivity
Organizational effectiveness. Performance measurement
Leadership in women. Women executives
Adnan, Mohd Fairuz
Sabli, Nurshamimi
Abdullah, Azizah
Relationship between board gender diversity and firm performance: Evidence from Malaysian firms / Mohd Fairuz Adnan, Nurshamimi Sabli and Azizah Abdullah
description The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between board diversity and firm performance of 26 government-linked companies (GLCs) and 26 non-government-linked companies (non-GLCs) in Malaysia. The study focuses on gender variable to explain the board diversity and tests its relationship towards firm performance as measured by return on equity (ROE) and return on asset (ROA). A final sample of 196 GLCs and non-GLCs listed on the Bursa Malaysia are used across four years from 2007 to 2010. The results fail to satisfy the expectation made for this study, thus rejecting the hypothesis that gender board diversity is positively related to firm performance. In conclusion, this study could not establish that gender diversity on boards would enhance firm performance due to the small average samples of women directors on the board of Malaysian companies.
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author Adnan, Mohd Fairuz
Sabli, Nurshamimi
Abdullah, Azizah
author_facet Adnan, Mohd Fairuz
Sabli, Nurshamimi
Abdullah, Azizah
author_sort Adnan, Mohd Fairuz
title Relationship between board gender diversity and firm performance: Evidence from Malaysian firms / Mohd Fairuz Adnan, Nurshamimi Sabli and Azizah Abdullah
title_short Relationship between board gender diversity and firm performance: Evidence from Malaysian firms / Mohd Fairuz Adnan, Nurshamimi Sabli and Azizah Abdullah
title_full Relationship between board gender diversity and firm performance: Evidence from Malaysian firms / Mohd Fairuz Adnan, Nurshamimi Sabli and Azizah Abdullah
title_fullStr Relationship between board gender diversity and firm performance: Evidence from Malaysian firms / Mohd Fairuz Adnan, Nurshamimi Sabli and Azizah Abdullah
title_full_unstemmed Relationship between board gender diversity and firm performance: Evidence from Malaysian firms / Mohd Fairuz Adnan, Nurshamimi Sabli and Azizah Abdullah
title_sort relationship between board gender diversity and firm performance: evidence from malaysian firms / mohd fairuz adnan, nurshamimi sabli and azizah abdullah
publisher Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Pahang
publishDate 2013
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29599/1/29599.pdf
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