Political Connection And Risk-Taking: The Interaction Role Of Corporate Governance Mechanisms

The purpose of this study is to examine whether political connection affects corporate risk-taking. Anecdotal literature often finds political connection positively impact firm performance, but are many possibilities on how it can happen. One of them is that connected firms have more resources and h...

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第一著者: Wong, Wai Yan
フォーマット: 学位論文
言語:英語
出版事項: 2019
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description The purpose of this study is to examine whether political connection affects corporate risk-taking. Anecdotal literature often finds political connection positively impact firm performance, but are many possibilities on how it can happen. One of them is that connected firms have more resources and higher capacity to undertake higher risk-taking which may eventually result in higher performance, compared to non-connected firms. Therefore, this study hopes to investigate whether firms that are politically connected may have a different risk-taking propensity as compared to firms that are not politically connected.
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spelling usm-555972022-11-10T04:46:17Z http://eprints.usm.my/55597/ Political Connection And Risk-Taking: The Interaction Role Of Corporate Governance Mechanisms Wong, Wai Yan HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management The purpose of this study is to examine whether political connection affects corporate risk-taking. Anecdotal literature often finds political connection positively impact firm performance, but are many possibilities on how it can happen. One of them is that connected firms have more resources and higher capacity to undertake higher risk-taking which may eventually result in higher performance, compared to non-connected firms. Therefore, this study hopes to investigate whether firms that are politically connected may have a different risk-taking propensity as compared to firms that are not politically connected. 2019-10 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/55597/1/24%20Pages%20from%20%20Wong%20Wai%20Yan.pdf Wong, Wai Yan (2019) Political Connection And Risk-Taking: The Interaction Role Of Corporate Governance Mechanisms. PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
spellingShingle HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management
Wong, Wai Yan
Political Connection And Risk-Taking: The Interaction Role Of Corporate Governance Mechanisms
title Political Connection And Risk-Taking: The Interaction Role Of Corporate Governance Mechanisms
title_full Political Connection And Risk-Taking: The Interaction Role Of Corporate Governance Mechanisms
title_fullStr Political Connection And Risk-Taking: The Interaction Role Of Corporate Governance Mechanisms
title_full_unstemmed Political Connection And Risk-Taking: The Interaction Role Of Corporate Governance Mechanisms
title_short Political Connection And Risk-Taking: The Interaction Role Of Corporate Governance Mechanisms
title_sort political connection and risk taking the interaction role of corporate governance mechanisms
topic HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management
url http://eprints.usm.my/55597/
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