Interlocking Directorship in New Zealand
The aim of this research is to identify the determinants and consequences of interlocking board membership in New Zealand and whether this interlocking affects the firm performance. This research used a sample of 276 firm years and 1,783 directors from New Zealand listed companies. A two-fold app...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Wollongong
2015-09-01
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| Series: | Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://ro.uow.edu.au/aabfj/vol9/iss3/4 |
| Summary: | The aim of this research is to identify the determinants and consequences of interlocking board
membership in New Zealand and whether this interlocking affects the firm performance. This research
used a sample of 276 firm years and 1,783 directors from New Zealand listed companies. A two-fold
approach analysing the overlap of directors’ names, boards, and company levels was used.
This research finds that New Zealand firms are highly interlocked. While concentrated ownership firms
react negatively to interlocking, this research finds that interlocking is negatively impacting firm
performance in New Zealand. This research also finds that New Zealand firms were significantly
interlocked under both approaches, which resulted in negative firm performance.
This study has wide application to the New Zealand Financial Market Authority and Institute of Directors
New Zealand to evidence the possible effects of directors of being involved (“busy”) in more than one
company at the same time.
This is the first paper on firm and board interlocking based on New Zealand stock exchange data
following the corporate governance best practice code 2004 regime which identified both the
determinants and consequences of interlocking. |
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| ISSN: | 1834-2000 1834-2019 |