“…The control variables were selected based on previous research, including the number of directors (DIRSIZE) (Roiston & Harymawan, 2022), number of commissioners (COMSIZE) (Guan et al, 2016; Ningsih et al, 2021), and independent directors (INDCOM) (Muttakin et al, 2018) to represent good corporate governance. Firm size (FIRMSIZE) (Abdullah et al, 2023) and leverage (LEV) (Cahyono, Harymawan, & Kamarudin, 2023) were chosen to represent company characteristics, while return on assets (ROA) (Ningsih et al, 2021) and loss (LOSS) were selected as profitability ratios to represent company performance, as in Guan et al (2020). The definitions of the variables used in this study for further information are listed in Table 2.…”