Corporate governance structure and performance of Malaysian listed companies

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 33, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 1034-1062

  Haniffa, Roszaini ^c   Hudaib, Mohammad ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b School Management   (United Kingdom)

^c BRADFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Board characteristics; Corporate governance; Corporate performance; KLSE; Malaysia; Malaysian code of corporate governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749023308     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2006.00594.x     Document Type: Article

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