Sustainability and corporate governance an investigation on firm performance: A study on Malaysian public listed firms

This paper investigates whether embedding sustainability into corporate governance has affected firm performance of Malaysian listed companies. To achieve this goal we have analyzed the relationship between corporate governance and integrating sustainability indicators to examine whether there exist...

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Main Authors: Johl, S.K., Salami, O.L.
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
Record Id / ISBN-0: utp-eprints.19686 /
Published: American Scientific Publishers 2017
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spelling utp-eprints.196862018-04-20T07:29:15Z Sustainability and corporate governance an investigation on firm performance: A study on Malaysian public listed firms Johl, S.K. Salami, O.L. This paper investigates whether embedding sustainability into corporate governance has affected firm performance of Malaysian listed companies. To achieve this goal we have analyzed the relationship between corporate governance and integrating sustainability indicators to examine whether there exist significant differences in performance. This study has used top 300 firms listed on Bursa Malaysia based on market capitalization. Earnings Per share (EPS) was used as proxies for firm performance. Also, reverse causation was controlled using firm size and leverage as exogenous variables for some of the corporate governance practices among the firms. The results revealed that there is a positive and significant relationship between sustainability and firm performance. © 2017 American Scientific Publishers All rights reserved. American Scientific Publishers 2017 Article PeerReviewed https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85013187629&doi=10.1166%2fasl.2017.7249&partnerID=40&md5=4d3299d089605e9fc0c6708316c94116 Johl, S.K. and Salami, O.L. (2017) Sustainability and corporate governance an investigation on firm performance: A study on Malaysian public listed firms. Advanced Science Letters, 23 (1). pp. 540-544. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/19686/
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description This paper investigates whether embedding sustainability into corporate governance has affected firm performance of Malaysian listed companies. To achieve this goal we have analyzed the relationship between corporate governance and integrating sustainability indicators to examine whether there exist significant differences in performance. This study has used top 300 firms listed on Bursa Malaysia based on market capitalization. Earnings Per share (EPS) was used as proxies for firm performance. Also, reverse causation was controlled using firm size and leverage as exogenous variables for some of the corporate governance practices among the firms. The results revealed that there is a positive and significant relationship between sustainability and firm performance. © 2017 American Scientific Publishers All rights reserved.
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author Johl, S.K.
Salami, O.L.
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Sustainability and corporate governance an investigation on firm performance: A study on Malaysian public listed firms
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title Sustainability and corporate governance an investigation on firm performance: A study on Malaysian public listed firms
title_short Sustainability and corporate governance an investigation on firm performance: A study on Malaysian public listed firms
title_full Sustainability and corporate governance an investigation on firm performance: A study on Malaysian public listed firms
title_fullStr Sustainability and corporate governance an investigation on firm performance: A study on Malaysian public listed firms
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability and corporate governance an investigation on firm performance: A study on Malaysian public listed firms
title_sort sustainability and corporate governance an investigation on firm performance: a study on malaysian public listed firms
publisher American Scientific Publishers
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