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http://dx.doi.org/10.13106/jafeb.2020.vol7.no6.265

Directors' Remuneration and Performance: Evidence from the Textile Sector of Bangladesh  

AKTER, Sharmin (Department of Accounting & Information Systems, Faculty of Business Studies, Jashore University of Science & Technology)
ALI, Md. Hossain (Department of Accounting & Information Systems, Faculty of Business Studies, Jashore University of Science & Technology)
ABEDIN, Md. Thasinul (Department of Accounting, University of Chittagong)
HOSSAIN, Balal (MBA (Finance & Business Analytics),Texas Christian University)
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The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business / v.7, no.6, 2020 , pp. 265-275 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study investigates the impact of board incentives as proxied by directors' remuneration on the financial performance of listed textile companies in Bangladesh. Using Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) and data pertaining to listed textile companies of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) during the period from 2011 to 2017 (resulting in a total of 140 firm-year observations), we have estimated the firm performance equation involving directors' remuneration and board independence as the independent variables and some other control variables like firm age, size, leverage, and operating efficiency. The results reveal that there is a negative association between board remuneration and firm performance. In addition, this study finds no significant relationship between board independence and firm performance of the sample firms. Our findings suggest that higher pay to the board does not stimulate higher firm performance and, in turn, results in shareholders getting nothing in return from this and, hence, is a matter of great concern for them. Moreover, our results indirectly indicate that currently directors' remuneration in Bangladesh is not aligned with the firm performance, which has been emphasized in extant corporate governance literature. Besides, this paper further raises questions about the effectiveness of independent directors in the boards of textile firms in Bangladesh.
Keywords
Directors' Remuneration; Firm Performance; Corporate Governance; Generalized Method of Moments (GMM); Bangladesh;
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