Social network impact on corporate performance and governance

• Main Author: KHOO, Jonathan Chew Hoe
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Social Network; Ownership Centrality; Corporate Ownership; Board Centrality; Interlocking Directorates; Corporate Governance; Singapore Corporate Governance Index; SGX; Singapore; Business and Corporate Communications; Corporate Finance; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll_all/30; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1024&context=etd_coll_all
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Motivated by the centrality measures constructed in Larcker, So and Wang (2013), I affirm that board connectedness positively affect firm performance in Singapore, and even if we were to measure firm performance by Tobin's Q. The impact on firm performance persists over at least four years. Con...