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Corporate governance deals with the issue of power where integrity and ethics considered as inherent components in every board action and decision making process. Board of directors is the vital decision maker in the company and always be viewed as a role model to all levels of employees. Therefore, selection criteria of the members of the board, especially INED are crucial. The key selection criteria identified which are predicted to be able to increase the level of corporate integrity ar...

The Asian Financial crisis in 1997 had increased the awareness amongst corporation on the importance of having a good corporate governance system. In Malaysia, to enhance good corporate governance practice, MCCG 2012 had recommended the appointment of independent non-executive director (INED) on the board. However the flexibility that being offered by the Code make its recommendation highly questionable as it will open for the manipulation by the companies and thus lead to the recurrence o...

The numbers of cases regarding corporate scandal, fraud and so on have been the major reasons for this study to emphasis on the roles of institutional investors. In order to improve corporate governance practices by the companies, one of the main issues is to control or minimize agency conflict. In this study, the theory of agency is applied between the institutional investors which refer as principal and the management of public listed companies as the agent. As the large investors who ho...

Nowadays the idea had changed from only focus on financial reporting to also include non financial reporting in the company report. As most of the companies believe social reporting such as CSR reporting are important for a company in getting better prospect. Malaysian prime minister said that companies have to include the Corporate Social Responsibility in their business agenda and embedded it into the vision and mission of their company. Hence, it is important to identify the degree of C...

This study focuses on the factors influencing the participation of shareholders at the AGM of the Public Listed Companies (PLCs) in Malaysia. There are five variables involved in this study which are Shareholders AGM’s Participation (Dependent Variable), Agenda Items of AGM (Independent Variables 1), Ownership Structure (Independent Variables 2), Company’s Past Performance (Independent Variables 3), and Share Price Volatility (Independent Variables 4). In order to collect the data fr...