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The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of political connections on firms’ performance by controlling the effect of board attributes and firms’ characteristics. Specifically, it is argued that politically connected firms enjoy a lot of benefits from the government and said to provide greater chances for the firms to increase their wealth. By using 156 public listed firms between the study period of 2012 to 2017, this study maps out political connection based on the 13th Malaysian general election. The results reveal that the appearance of political connections on board gives significant and negative effect on Tobin Q, while significant and positive effect on Return on Asset (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE). Board independence is also significant to firms’ performance. This result implies that political connection is a favour for a better firm’s performance and not to firm’s value. The findings have an important implication to investors as it suggests that firms with political connection on board perform better.

This research ains to test the influence of profitability, firm size on firm value with capital structure as an intervening variable. Analysis of data were did in the manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange during the period 2011-2016. The data analyzed by using multiple linear regression method. The result showed that profitability has negative and significant on capital structure, firm size has negative and significant on capital structure, profitability do not influenced on firm value, firm size do not influenced on firm value, capital structure do not influenced on firm value. Meanwhile the capital stucture can not mediate the relationship between profitability and firm size against firm value. Keywords : profitability, firm size, firm value and capital structure

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The issues of social desirability bias and order effect bias are common problems in ethics. Methodologically, these two problems may weaken the study's validity and reliability thus, making the results of the study invalid. Utilizing vignettes in whistleblowing research may further add to these problems as the case scenario in the vignettes may enhance respondents' social desirability bias and the sequence of presentation order of vignettes may then present the problem of vignettes' order effect bias. The paper addresses these two problems by statistically examining the effects of these two types of bias within the study of whistle-blowing intentions.