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http://dx.doi.org/10.13106/jafeb.2022.vol9.no4.0399

Governance Innovation and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from the Automotive Industry in Pakistan  

HUSSAIN, Malik Azhar (Department of Business Administration, National College of Business Administration and Economics)
WAQAR, Amjad (National College of Business Administration and Economics, Lahore, Sub-campus Multan)
ANAM, Saddiq (National College of Business Administration and Economics, Lahore, Sub-campus Multan)
HAFEEZULLAH, Khan (National College of Business Administration and Economics, Lahore, Sub-campus Multan)
ASMA, Zafar (National College of Business Administration and Economics, Lahore, Sub-campus Multan)
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The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business / v.9, no.4, 2022 , pp. 399-408 More about this Journal
Abstract
Corporate governance and innovation have been a hot topic in recent boardroom talks, whether in the trade or manufacturing industries. Governance innovations are highly significant for the survival of the motor vehicle industry like Honda, Nissan, New General Motors, and Toyota. The study chooses the motor vehicle industry which crosses the age of a century and sufficient corroborative support exists with the perspective of distinctive objectives. Using the population of all the automobile companies listed on the Pakistan stock exchange (PSX), we distill automobile companies to evaluate the firm performance using the panel data regression approach. The results show that there is a significant relationship between gender diversity, audit committees, and firm performance. Further, board size also has a positive impact on firm performance. We identify that the governance mechanism of firms found in default of the frequency of audit committee meetings. By considering results, only limited knowledge of finance directors and also very few numbers of female directors are on the board. Empirical findings of this work might be useful for policymakers in attempting to draft a corporate governance framework better able to monitor the financial performance of firms through female directors and also serve as a catalyst for the regulators of electric vehicles.
Keywords
Corporate Governance; Audit Committee; Board Size; Gender Diversity; Automotive Industry;
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