Corporate Governance and Foreign Portfolio Investment in Saudi Arabia

A corporate governance system has been designed to ensure efficient operations of companies on behalf of share-holders. Good practices of corporate governance principles and high protection of investors would attract foreign portfolio investment. This study aims to investigate the effect of corporat...

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Main Author: Ahmed, Mohammed Gubran Mohammed
Format: Thesis
Language:English
English
Published: 2012
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https://etd.uum.edu.my/3183/
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description A corporate governance system has been designed to ensure efficient operations of companies on behalf of share-holders. Good practices of corporate governance principles and high protection of investors would attract foreign portfolio investment. This study aims to investigate the effect of corporate governance mechanisms (i.e. board size, board independence, audit committee size, audit committee independence and firm age) on foreign portfolio investment in Saudi listed firms for the year 2010. This study is significant due to the lack of empirical evidence regarding the field of corporate governance and foreign portfolio investment in Saudi firms since the Saudi code of corporate governance has been enacted in the late 2006. The results of the study show that board independence and audit committee independence are associated with foreign portfolio investment in Saudi listed firms. However, the corporate governance mechanisms, i.e. board size, audit committee size and firm age had no impact on foreign portfolio investment
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spelling oai:etd.uum.edu.my:31832022-04-10T06:00:24Z https://etd.uum.edu.my/3183/ Corporate Governance and Foreign Portfolio Investment in Saudi Arabia Ahmed, Mohammed Gubran Mohammed HD2709-2930.7 Corporations A corporate governance system has been designed to ensure efficient operations of companies on behalf of share-holders. Good practices of corporate governance principles and high protection of investors would attract foreign portfolio investment. This study aims to investigate the effect of corporate governance mechanisms (i.e. board size, board independence, audit committee size, audit committee independence and firm age) on foreign portfolio investment in Saudi listed firms for the year 2010. This study is significant due to the lack of empirical evidence regarding the field of corporate governance and foreign portfolio investment in Saudi firms since the Saudi code of corporate governance has been enacted in the late 2006. The results of the study show that board independence and audit committee independence are associated with foreign portfolio investment in Saudi listed firms. However, the corporate governance mechanisms, i.e. board size, audit committee size and firm age had no impact on foreign portfolio investment 2012 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://etd.uum.edu.my/3183/1/MOHAMMED_GUBRAN_MOHAMMED_AHMED.pdf text en https://etd.uum.edu.my/3183/2/MOHAMMED_GUBRAN_MOHAMMED_AHMED.pdf Ahmed, Mohammed Gubran Mohammed (2012) Corporate Governance and Foreign Portfolio Investment in Saudi Arabia. Masters thesis, Universiti Utara Malaysia.
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title Corporate Governance and Foreign Portfolio Investment in Saudi Arabia
title_full Corporate Governance and Foreign Portfolio Investment in Saudi Arabia
title_fullStr Corporate Governance and Foreign Portfolio Investment in Saudi Arabia
title_full_unstemmed Corporate Governance and Foreign Portfolio Investment in Saudi Arabia
title_short Corporate Governance and Foreign Portfolio Investment in Saudi Arabia
title_sort corporate governance and foreign portfolio investment in saudi arabia
topic HD2709-2930.7 Corporations
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