Corporate Governance and Firm Value: Evidence from South African (SA) Listed Firms

Ntim, Collins G.; Opong, Kwaku K.; Danbolt, Jo

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“…For instance, and in line with the Cadbury Report, King I recommended an Anglo-Saxon style single-tier board of directors, consisting of executive directors and NEDs, operating within a voluntary CG compliance framework (King Report, 2002;Armstrong et al, 2006). With particular respect to NEDs, and similar to the Cadbury Report, it emphasised the special importance of NEDs in setting and maintaining high standards of CG (King Report, 1994;Ntim, 2009). …”

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“…Also, and unlike the Cadbury Report, which specified that at least two of the NEDs should be independent, King I did not clearly define who constitutes independent director or the number of independent NEDs (INEDs) that SA corporate boards should have (West, 2009;Ntim, 2009). King I also failed to insist on a truly INED to chair SA corporate boards (King Report, 2002;Kakabadse and Korac-Kakabadse, 2002).…”

Section: The King Reports Ineds and The Sa Corporate Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast, INEDs possess a number of features. First, they bring independent judgment to board decisions (Baysinger and Hoskisson, 1990;Ntim, 2009), which can impact positively on firm valuation. In particular, greater independence associated with INEDs grants them increased capacity to advise, monitor and discipline management to improve firm value by reducing managerial opportunism without fear or favour (Vafeas and Theodorou, 1998;Bhagat and Black, 2002;Jiraporn et al, 2009).…”

Section: Ineds and Firm Valuation: Theory Evidence And Hypothesis Dementioning

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“…Due to the mixed theoretical predictions, we hypothesise that gearing (GEAR), capital expenditure (CAPEX) and firm size (LNTA) will correlate either negatively or positively to firm value. Third, firms that are cross-listed on international stock markets are more likely to have greater access to funds and investment opportunities (Ntim, 2009;Ntim et al, 2011b), and therefore may be valued more highly by the stock market. Thus, our prediction is that cross-listing (CROSLIST) will correlate positively to firm value.…”

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“…The country offers an interesting setting to investigate the effect of INEDs on firm valuation. In line with other Anglo-Saxon economies, SA has carried out CG reforms, mainly in the shape of the King Reports with the key aim of improving the independence and monitoring capacity of corporate boards (Kakabadse and Korac-Kakabadse, 2002;Ntim, 2009;West, 2009;Ntim et al, 2011a). As will be further elaborated, and with particular respect to the composition of SA corporate boards, the 2002 King Report sets a much clearer and stricter test for classifying directors into executives, NEDs and INEDs for listed firms to comply with.…”

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INEDs and firm valuation. By contrast, we find no statistically significant association between the presence of non-executive directors (NEDs) and firm valuation. Our findings are robust across a number of econometric models that control for different types of endogeneity problems, non-linear associations and firm valuation proxies. Our findings have important policy and regulatory implications. Whereas our evidence that more independent corporate boards' impacts positively on firm valuation provides support for the recommendations of the King Reports, it shows that to be meaningful, director independence has to be more carefully and strictly defined.

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Corporate Governance and Firm Value: Evidence from South African (SA) Listed Firms

Cited by 52 publications

References 54 publications

The king reports, independent non-executive directors and firm valuation on the Johannesburg stock exchange

The king reports, independent non-executive directors and firm valuation on the Johannesburg stock exchange

Towards Sustainable Development in the Arab Middle East and North Africa Region: A Longitudinal Analysis of Environmental Disclosure in Corporate Annual Reports

Sustainable environmental practices and financial performance: Evidence from listed small and medium‐sized enterprise in the United Kingdom

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