Article: Does ownership structure matter to public listed firms? Review on the corporate governance and involuntary delisting practices Journal: International Journal of Accounting and Finance (IJAF) 2018 Vol.8 No.4 pp.340 - 363 Abstract: This paper proposes a conceptual framework and investigates the ownership structure on involuntary delisting. To build the conceptual framework as a guide to reduce involuntary delisting through decreasing agency costs, protecting shareholders' rights, the background of governance practices and agency theory to be utilised. By developing a deeper understanding of the relationship between ownership structures on involuntary delisting, evidence from preceding studies suggested that this structure is of main importance in corporate governance because it determines the motivations of managers to control the agency problem. Since the impact of corporate governance mechanisms in each country depends on especial conditions; therefore, the mixed results for each of its factors are seen in literature; but majority of research is consistent with higher institutional ownership, ownership concentration, managerial ownership, CEO ownership, foreign ownership, free float ratio, and family ownership and lower state ownership having a significant negative impact on the probability of involuntary delisting. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Does ownership structure matter to public listed firms? Review on the corporate governance and involuntary delisting practices

Authors: Kimiya Akbarpoursokeh; Azizah Abdullah; Fadzlina Mohd Fahmi

Addresses: Faculty of Accountancy, Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam, Malaysia ' Faculty of Accountancy, Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam, Malaysia ' Faculty of Accountancy, Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam, Malaysia

Abstract: This paper proposes a conceptual framework and investigates the ownership structure on involuntary delisting. To build the conceptual framework as a guide to reduce involuntary delisting through decreasing agency costs, protecting shareholders' rights, the background of governance practices and agency theory to be utilised. By developing a deeper understanding of the relationship between ownership structures on involuntary delisting, evidence from preceding studies suggested that this structure is of main importance in corporate governance because it determines the motivations of managers to control the agency problem. Since the impact of corporate governance mechanisms in each country depends on especial conditions; therefore, the mixed results for each of its factors are seen in literature; but majority of research is consistent with higher institutional ownership, ownership concentration, managerial ownership, CEO ownership, foreign ownership, free float ratio, and family ownership and lower state ownership having a significant negative impact on the probability of involuntary delisting.

Keywords: corporate governance mechanisms; ownership structure; institutional ownership; ownership concentration; managerial ownership; CEO ownership; foreign ownership; free float ratio; state ownership; involuntary delisting.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAF.2018.098340

International Journal of Accounting and Finance, 2018 Vol.8 No.4, pp.340 - 363

Accepted: 29 Jun 2018
Published online: 14 Mar 2019 *

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