Board Characteristics and Capital Structure in Malaysian Market

Using fifty nine construction companies listed in Bursa Malaysia in 2010, this study investigates the impact of selected board of directors' characteristics on the level of leverage in a firm. Debt to equity is used as a measure of leverage. The characteristics on the board of directors that we...

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Main Author:	Auais, Amin Abdel Rahman Yousef
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	HD2709-2930.7 Corporations
Online Access:	https://etd.uum.edu.my/3036/1/Amin_Abdel_Rahman_Yousef.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/3036/2/Amin_Abdel_Rahman_Yousef.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/3036/
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