This study examines the association between certain attributes / structure of
corporate governance towards the performance of public listed companies in
Malaysia specifically those that are from construction industry. Data has been
collected from annual reports from Bursa Malaysia’s website and / or the
website of the sample companies from period of 2013 to 2018. Though there
have been numerous past researches done to investigate relation between
corporate governance and firm’s performance, there has been very little that
focus its attention to construction industry. This study is intended to further
enhance the knowledge gained from previous researches particularly in the
construction industry with latest update of datasets (i.e. from 2013 to 2018).
Data was obtained from annual reports of 35 companies from the construction
industries listed in Bursa Malaysia’s Main Market. This study investigated
association of four corporate governance attributes / structures i.e. board size,
board independence, frequency of board meetings and CEO duality with
performance of the companies. Tobin’s Q was selected as the proxy for
performance measurement. It was found that in relation to size of board,
board’s independence, frequency of board meetings and CEO duality, the listed
construction companies have statistically insignificant association with Tobin’s
Q as the dependent variable representing performance of the companies.
