Board of director composition impact on financial distress

• Main Authors: Dasahi, Norliza, Md Rus, Rohani, Abdullah, Nur Adiana Hiau
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: HG Finance
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/20401/1/ICOGPA%202016%201%2010.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/20401/; http://icogpa2016.weebly.com/
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

As the number of companies fall into financial distress increasing, while corporate governance is name to be one of the factors, more studies has focused on their relationship.Among the corporate governance mechanism being studied frequently is board of directors’ characteristics including board size, proportion of independent directors and potential duality.Those are the variables being examined in this paper.Based on the previous literature, however, there is no conclusive argument can be made on whether all these three variables are positively or negatively related to financial distress.The inconclusive argument could due to the type of data being employed, for example between financial and non-financial data.