“…2.2.4 Relationships between corporate governance, capital structure and firm performance. Numerous studies (Nawaz and Nawaz, 2019;PeiZhi and Ramzan, 2020;Shahzad et al, 2022) The effects of corporate governance have examined the direct relationships between CG, CS and FP by considering only two of these variables at a time, ignoring the interaction that can exist between them. However, very few studies (Kassim et al, 2013;Budiman, 2015;Shahid and Akash, 2015;Iqbal and Javed, 2017;Detthamrong et al, 2017;Bashir and Asad, 2018) study the mediating or moderating effect of (1) CS on the relationship between CG and FP and (2) CG on the relationship between CS and FP.…”