Dividend payout policy, investment opportunity set and corporate financing in the industrial products sector of Malaysia

This paper investigates the relationship between Investment Opportunity Set (IOS) and dividend policy and if ethnicity and family ownership moderates this relationship in an emerging economy context. The contracting explanation based on Jensen’s Free Cash Flow Theory (FCF) [22, 36] is empirically...

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Main Authors: Ardestani, Hananeh Shahteimoori, Abdul Rasid, Siti Zaleha, Basiruddin, Rohaida, Mehri, Mohammadghorban
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Scienpress Ltd. 2013
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/40491/1/HananehShahteimooriArdestani2013_DividendPayoutPolicyInvestmentOpportunity.pdf