Title: Board structure and extent of corporate governance statement

Authors: Azlan Amran, Mohd Syarizal Ishak, Abdul Hadi Zulkafli, Mehran Nejati

Addresses: Graduate School of Business, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia. ' School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia. ' School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia. ' School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia

Abstract: The board of directors is an important entity in a company, creating a link between shareholders and managers and therefore playing an important role in the governance of a firm. This study focuses on board structure and the extent of the corporate governance statement disclosure. This study found that the size of the corporate board does have some influence on the extent of the corporate governance statement disclosure. It is quite surprising to find that the rest of the variables involving the board structure do not have any association with the extent of corporate governance statement.

Keywords: board structure; corporate governance; disclosure; board of directors.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMFA.2010.035639

International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting, 2010 Vol.2 No.4, pp.383 - 400

Published online: 01 Oct 2010 *

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