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Corporate governance is refer to how a company is govern. Good corporate governance is important as it can make the company being more transparent and satisfied the shareholders and other stakeholders of a company. Whistleblower is an individual or an employee in a company who expose or disclose information that he/she believes is evidence of illegality, fraud, misconduct, abuse of power, general wrongdoing or substantial and specific danger to public health and safety. The f...

Independent director has been viewed as one of the mechanisms that can help improve corporate governance system within an organization. The Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance (2012) and Bursa Malaysia Listing Requirements have specifically focusing on the importance for all companies to have appropriate number of independent directors on boards. The study seeks to determine the level of firms’ performance among Malaysian public listed companies with high number of independent director ...

Transparency can be defined as an important element of a healthy corporate governance framework where it is able to provide the basis for informed decision-making by shareholders, stakeholders and potential investors especially on capital allocation, corporate transactions and financial performance monitoring. The importance of transparency has been widely recognized by both academics and market regulators which has resulting in numerous introduction and amendments of regulations over time...

In recent years companies encounter many problems in regard of their pool of talents including difficulty to attract and retain the top talent to join the company and thus should be consider as a challenge to companies as this can affect the company’s competitive edge. The organizations in Malaysia also experience similar problem due to the war of talents. The purpose of this study is to investigate the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a factor that helps to increase the organizati...

Internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an essential part of organizations' social responsibility. Yet, to date, CSR's internal dimension has been widely neglected in the literature. This paper empirically explores the concept of internal dimension of CSR and its relationship to the firm’s performance among SMEs. Besides that, usually the discussion of CSR has been limited only to large organizations by which it is presumed that SMEs have lesser impact on society .However...