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Title: | Board governance and corporate performance |
Authors: | Shaukat, A Trojanowski, G |
Keywords: | agency theory;board committees;board independence;board of directors;comply or explain;corporate governance;corporate governance codes;firm performance;managerial opportunism;non-executive directors |
Issue Date: | 7-Feb-2018 |
Publisher: | Wiley online |
Citation: | Shaukat, A. and Trojanowski, G. (2018) 'Board governance and corporate performance', Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 45 (1-2), pp. 184-208. doi: 10.1111/jbfa.12271. |
Abstract: | © 2017 The Authors. We examine the link between the monitoring capacity of the board and corporate performance of UK listed firms. We also investigate how firms use the flexibility offered by the voluntary governance regime to make governance choices. We find a strong positive association between the board governance index we construct and firm operating performance. Our results imply that adherence to the board-related recommendations of the UK Corporate Governance Code strengthens the board's monitoring capacity, potentially helping mitigate agency problems, but that investors do not value it correspondingly. Moreover, in contrast to prior UK findings suggesting efficient adoption of Code recommendations, we find that firms at times use the Code flexibility opportunistically, aiming to decrease the monitoring capacity of the board, which is followed by subsequent underperformance. This finding questions the effectiveness of the voluntary approach to governance regulation followed in the UK and in many countries around the world. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/15439 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/jbfa.12271 |
ISSN: | 0306-686X |
Appears in Collections: | Brunel Business School Research Papers |
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