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Corporate Governance and Firm Performance : The Mediation Effect of Board Roles, Panel Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Authors(3) :-Jonas Bawuah, Kong Yusheng, Agyeiwaa Owusu Nkwantabisa

The study explores the effect of corporate governance on the performance of firms in Sub-Saharan Africa by using both return on equity and return on assets as performance measures. Unique data from 252 listed firms drawn from Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana and Kenya covering thirteen year period of 2006-2018 was used and analysed within the generalised least square panel data framework. Results indicate that the direction and the extent of impact of corporate governance are dependent on the performance measure being examined. Specifically, our findings show that board structural characteristics and firm performance relationship was significant and stronger with return on equity as compared to return on asset. We also find that unlike for frequency of board meetings, the results suggest that board structural characteristics are significant predictors of firm performance and that the monitoring and resource dependence roles partially mediate the relationship between board structural characteristics and firm performance.

Authors and Affiliations

Jonas Bawuah
School of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University, 301, Xuefu Rd. Zhenjiang, P.R. China
Kong Yusheng
Department of Accountancy and Accounting Information Systems, Kumasi Technical University, Ghana
Agyeiwaa Owusu Nkwantabisa
ZHONGNAN University of Economics and Law 182# Nanhu Road East Lake High Tech Development Zone, Wuhan P.R China 430073

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Published in : Volume 7 | Issue 2 | March-April 2020
Date of Publication : 2020-04-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 153-157
Manuscript Number : IJSRSET207238
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099

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Jonas Bawuah, Kong Yusheng, Agyeiwaa Owusu Nkwantabisa, " Corporate Governance and Firm Performance : The Mediation Effect of Board Roles, Panel Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 7, Issue 2, pp.153-157, March-April-2020. Available at doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRSET207238      Journal URL : https://res.ijsrset.com/IJSRSET207238

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