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The Role of Gender and Ethnic Diversity on the Performance of Malaysian Private Companies

This study examines the effect of gender diversity and board diversity on Malaysian firm performance. This study is different from other studies because instead of using publicly listed companies, it uses 3,735 private companies over 2009-2014. We find that gender has no significant effect on the fi...

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Main Authors: Brahmana, Rayenda Khresna, Mohd Razali, Mohd Waliuddin, Yau, Hu Wei
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2016
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H Social Sciences (General)
Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/21376/1/Waliuddin-2016-conference-21-47.pdf
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spelling my.unimas.ir.213762018-09-03T02:27:42Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/21376/ The Role of Gender and Ethnic Diversity on the Performance of Malaysian Private Companies Brahmana, Rayenda Khresna Mohd Razali, Mohd Waliuddin Yau, Hu Wei H Social Sciences (General) This study examines the effect of gender diversity and board diversity on Malaysian firm performance. This study is different from other studies because instead of using publicly listed companies, it uses 3,735 private companies over 2009-2014. We find that gender has no significant effect on the firm performance but firm’s characteristics such as firm age, firm’s size, liquidity, and leverage have significant effects on the firm performance. Our research further indicates that ethnic diversity in the board of directors may give better performance to companies. This research implies two important findings for the policy makers. First, the encouragement of gender equality to private companies by policy maker may fail as it does not have any impact. Second, policy maker should not consider ethnic diversity in the board as part of policy because it may reduce the firm performance 2016 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/21376/1/Waliuddin-2016-conference-21-47.pdf Brahmana, Rayenda Khresna and Mohd Razali, Mohd Waliuddin and Yau, Hu Wei (2016) The Role of Gender and Ethnic Diversity on the Performance of Malaysian Private Companies. In: The 18th Malaysian Finance Association Annual Conference (MFAC) 2016 and The 7th Islamic Banking, Accounting and Finance Conference (IBAF) 2016, Equatorial Hotel Melaka, Malaysia. https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/11159/Nartea%20-%20RCP%20-%20Momentum%20returns%2C%20market%20states%20and%20market%20dynamics.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
Brahmana, Rayenda Khresna
Mohd Razali, Mohd Waliuddin
Yau, Hu Wei
The Role of Gender and Ethnic Diversity on the Performance of Malaysian Private Companies
description This study examines the effect of gender diversity and board diversity on Malaysian firm performance. This study is different from other studies because instead of using publicly listed companies, it uses 3,735 private companies over 2009-2014. We find that gender has no significant effect on the firm performance but firm’s characteristics such as firm age, firm’s size, liquidity, and leverage have significant effects on the firm performance. Our research further indicates that ethnic diversity in the board of directors may give better performance to companies. This research implies two important findings for the policy makers. First, the encouragement of gender equality to private companies by policy maker may fail as it does not have any impact. Second, policy maker should not consider ethnic diversity in the board as part of policy because it may reduce the firm performance
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Brahmana, Rayenda Khresna
Mohd Razali, Mohd Waliuddin
Yau, Hu Wei
author_facet Brahmana, Rayenda Khresna
Mohd Razali, Mohd Waliuddin
Yau, Hu Wei
author_sort Brahmana, Rayenda Khresna
title The Role of Gender and Ethnic Diversity on the Performance of Malaysian Private Companies
title_short The Role of Gender and Ethnic Diversity on the Performance of Malaysian Private Companies
title_full The Role of Gender and Ethnic Diversity on the Performance of Malaysian Private Companies
title_fullStr The Role of Gender and Ethnic Diversity on the Performance of Malaysian Private Companies
title_full_unstemmed The Role of Gender and Ethnic Diversity on the Performance of Malaysian Private Companies
title_sort role of gender and ethnic diversity on the performance of malaysian private companies
publishDate 2016
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/21376/1/Waliuddin-2016-conference-21-47.pdf
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https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/11159/Nartea%20-%20RCP%20-%20Momentum%20returns%2C%20market%20states%20and%20market%20dynamics.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
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