Accounting-based measures, 48, 56
Agency perspective, 48–49
Agency problem, 4, 7, 10, 31, 38, 48, 85
Agency theory, 6–7, 40–41
American Family Business Surveys, 38
Anglo-American model, 16–17
Anglo-Saxon’ approaches. (see Anglo-American model)
Appointment and Qualifications of Directors, 27
Assets turnover ratio (ATR), 60–61, 66, 71, 87
Audit committee, 19–23, 26–27, 30–31, 34, 38, 45, 47
Autocorrelation
problem, 67
test for, 63–64, 82
Wooldridge test of, 64
Bi-variate correlation analysis, 71–72
Bi-variate data analysis, 62, 89–90
Board composition, 5, 11, 33, 35–38, 45, 48, 50–52, 56, 58, 60, 89, 91, 93
corporate, 91
variables, 52, 66, 90
Board of Directors, 1, 3, 5–7, 16, 20, 27, 38, 40–41
Board size (BS), 5–6, 35, 37, 39, 42, 45–46, 48, 59, 70, 91
and corporate performance, 84–85
effects of supervisory, 41
firm value and, 34
impact, 43
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), 39, 55
Breusch-Pagan Lagrange multiplier test, 76
Breusch-Pagan/Cook-Weisberg test (Hettest), 63, 67, 74
British managing agent, 14–15
Business house model, 15–16
Buy-back norms, liberalisation of, 26
Cadbury Committee, 14, 18
Capital
markets, 17
structure, 33
Cash earnings per share (CEPS), 56, 71, 90
CEO duality (CEO_DUA), 60
CEO tenure (CEO_TEN), 60, 71
Chief executive officer (CEO), 17, 34, 58, 86, 89, 91
characteristics, 3, 6
‘Code of Best Practice’, 14
Companies (Amendment) Act (2000), 25–26
Companies (Amendment) Act (2001), 26
Companies (Amendment) Bill (2003), 26–27
Companies (Amendment) Bill (2008), 27
Companies Act (1956), 17, 25
amendments to, 25–30
Companies Act (2013), 28–29, 93
Compensation committees, 38
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), 14, 17–18
Code, 19–20
Constant coefficient method, 64–65
Control variables, 44–46, 60, 66, 71
assets turnover ratio, 61
and corporate performance, 86–87
debt equity ratio, 61
ER, 60
firm size, 60–61
growth in profit after tax, 61
Corporate financial performance, 43
Corporate Governance, 1, 33, 69, 89–90, 92–93. (see also Good governance)
Codes, 3
and dimensions, 2–3
international approach, 34–48
mechanism, 50
mechanisms, 3–6
models, 14–17
national approach, 48–51
objectives of study, 52
research gap, 51–52
research hypotheses, 53
theories, 6–10
UTI scam, 2
variables, 48
Corporate ownership, 44
effect, 40
and firm performance, 44
foreign and domestic, 39
Corporate performance, 33, 48, 69, 82
BS and, 84–85
control variables and, 86–87
Corporate value, 4, 43, 49
Corporation, 2–3, 8, 18, 33
Correlation, 44
analysis, 71
coefficient, 62–63, 72, 89
matrix, 63, 72, 89
Data, 55
sample selection procedure, 55–56
selection of variables, 56–61
source, 55
study period, 56
Debt–equity ratio (D/E ratio), 61, 71
Decision-making process, 34, 44, 49
Department of Company Affairs (DCA), 17
Dependent variables, 44, 56. (see also Independent variables)
CEPS, 56
MVA, 58
ROCE, 57
TQ, 57–58
Descriptive statistics, 49–50, 62, 67, 69–71
‘Desirable Corporate Governance Code’, 19
Diffuse ownership structure, 40–41
Dr J. J. Irani Committee Report on Company Law, 24–25
F-statistic of pooled regression model, 76
Financial performance, 49
board structure and corporate, 43
of Dutch companies, 45
firms, 46, 50
indicators, 34
Firm performance, 35, 44, 46, 82–84
EDs and, 85
IDs and, 85–86
IINV and, 84
MD and, 86
Firm size, 36–37, 44–46, 60–61. (see also Board size (BS))
Firm-specific knowledge, 40
Fixed effect model (FEM), 62, 65, 74, 76, 78, 80
Foreign ownership, 36, 47
Foreign trade, area of, 17
Garman Corporate Governance model, 18
Ghana Stock Exchange, 38–39
Good governance
checks and balances for, 6
corporate misgovernace to, 32
indicators, 30–31
Government, 9–10, 31
departments, 24
financial institution, 49
ownership, 39, 93
proportion of government shareholding, 42
shareholdings, 39
Grey director. (see Affiliate director)
Growth in profit after tax, 61
Independent directors (IDs), 4, 18, 59, 70. (see also Executive directors (ED))
and firm performance, 85–86
proportion, 59
Independent variables, 44, 58
CEO_DUA, 60
CEO_TEN, 60
IINV shareholding, 59
MD, 59–60
proportion of ED, 59
proportion of IDs, 59
PS, 58
India, Corporate Governance in, 13
codes, 18–25
features of, 17–18
good governance indicators, 30–31
historical models and development impact in, 14–17
and legislations, 25–30
Indian Companies Act (1850), 14
Indian financial system, 13, 56
Indonesian Stock Exchange, 48
Information Matrix test (Imtest), 63, 74
Inside directors, 5, 35–36, 40
Institutional investors (IINV), 4, 18, 38, 49, 69–70
and firm performance, 84
foreign, 4
ownership, 84
shareholding, 59, 90
Institutional ownership, 38, 44, 46
International approach, 34
agency theory, 40–41
BSE, 39
foreign investors and employees, 35
foreign ownership, 47
Indonesian Stock Exchange, 48
institutional investors, 38
Karachi Stock Exchange, 44
MBVR, 42
ownership structure, 34
regression analysis, 45–46
resource dependency theory, 40–41
ROE, 37
small shareholders, 36
Stock Exchange of Ghana, 46
TSE, 43
Managerial hegemony theory, 9–10
Managerial ownership, 34, 46
Managing agency model, 14–15
Market to book value ratio (MBVR), 42
Market value added (MVA), 56, 58, 71
Market-based measures, 48
Market-based performance measure variables, 48–49
Microsoft Office Excel 2010 package, 55
Multi-variate analyses, 69, 89
Multicollinearity, 69
property detection, 63, 72
test for, 62–63
Multiple regression models, 66, 74
dependent variable–CEPS, 77
dependent variable–MVA, 81
dependent variable–ROCE, 75
dependent variable–TQ, 79
selection of appropriate model of regression analysis, 76, 78, 80, 82
Multiplicity of directorship (MD), 41, 53, 59–60, 70–71
and firm performance, 86
mean value of, 70
Multivariate regression analysis, 90
Narayana Murthy Committee Report on Corporate Governance, 22–24
Naresh Chandra Committee on Corporate Audit and Governance, 21–22
Nominee director, 16, 21, 24, 59
Non-affiliate director, 5
Non-executive director. (see Outside director)
‘Non-executive independent’ director. (see Non-affiliate director)
Non-promoter
executive directors and relatives, 4
non-institutional shareholder, 51
Number of Directorships, 27
Panel data model, 64, 74–82
advantages, 64
constant coefficient method, 64–65
FEM, 65
pooled OLS method, 64–65
REM, 65–66
techniques, 64
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, 28
Performance. (see also Corporate performance)
of business units, 34
measure variables, 56
variables, 66
Pooled regression model, 74
Principal policy-making agency, 5
Private corporate bodies, 4
Profit after tax (PAT), 61, 71
growth in, 61
Promoters’ shareholding (PS), 58, 69–70, 82–84, 90
Random effect model (REM), 62, 65–66, 74, 76, 78, 80
Regression analysis, 39, 43, 45–46, 78
Representing firm performance (ROE), 40
Research methodology, 61
scheme of investigation, 67
statistical methods, 61–66
Resignation of Director, 27
Resource dependence theory, 8, 11, 40–41, 91
Return on capital employed (ROCE), 56–57, 71, 90
Return on equity (ROE), 37
Return on investments, 37
Returns on assets (ROA), 37
Risk-taking behaviours, 38
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), 14, 29–30
Securities and Exchange Board of India Act (1992), 29
Security and Exchange Commission, 14
Share of foreign institutional ownership, 4
Share of promoter ownership, 4
Shareholding patterns, 11, 13–14, 92–93
Statistical methods, 61
bi-variate data analysis, 62
descriptive statistics, 62
panel data model, 64–66
test for autocorrelation, 63–64
test for heteroskedasticity, 63
test for multicollinearity, 62–63
Stewardship theory, 6–8, 11
Stock Exchange of Ghana, 46
Stockholder-directors, 34