Principles of Islamic land ownership by Mohd Noor, Fauziah

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Ownership structure and financial distress by Md Rus, Rohani, Taufil Mohd, Kamarun Nisham, Abdul Latif, Rohaida, Alassan, Zarina Nadakkavil

“…Caught in financial distress has never been an objective of any company.Nevertheless, many companies collapsed due to controllable and uncontrollable factors.There is inconclusive evidence as to whether changes in ownership attributes improve firms’ performance and therefore could reduce the likelihood of firms going through financial distress.This study attempts to understand whether type of ownership have significant relationship with companies that experienced financial distress.This study is useful to directors who can evaluate the existence of these factors in their companies and to authorities who can use this study to measure the effectiveness of government linked institutional investors in preventing distress.…”
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Ownership and efficiency in Malaysian banking by Abd Karim, Mohd Zaini

“…Changes in the ownership structure have been an important feature of the evolution of the Malaysian banking sector. …”

Ownership Structure and Bank Performance by Abdul Rahman, Nora Azureen, Md Reja, Anis Farida

“…Multiple regression with fixed effects model is used to test the research model.Testing on five categories of ownership structure such as insider, family, government, institutional and foreign ownership, the results suggest that bank performance varies with different types of ownership structure.…”
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Ownership structure and firm performance by Zandi, Gholamreza, Singh, Jaspal, Mohamad, Shafi, Ehsanullah, Syed

“…This study implies that diffuse ownership structure negatively affects firm performance. …”
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Ownership structure and firm performance in Malaysia by Kamardin, Hasnah, Abdul Latif, Rohaida, Taufil Mohd, Kamarun Nisham

“…While family ownership and ownership by government-linked investment companies have linear relationship. …”
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Ownership structure variation and firm efficiency by Hassan, Sallahuddin, Othman, Zalila, Harun, Mukaramah

“…Firms with different ownership structures could be argued to have different levels of efficiency.Highly concentrated firms are expected to be more efficient as this type of ownership structure may alleviate the conflict of interest between managers and this http URL Malaysia, public-listed firms have been found to have highly concentrated ownership structure.However, whether this evidence holds for every industry has not been established.Hence, the objective of this paper is to investigate whether there are variations in ownership structure and firm's efficiency across this http URL achieve this objective, the frequency distributions of ownership structure were calculated and firms efficiency scores for consumer products, industrial products, construction and trading/services sectors were measured.Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) under the assumptions of constant returns to scale(CRS) and variable returns to scale(VRS) was employed to estimate firms efficiency scores.A sample of 156 firms listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange(KLSE) was selected using the stratified random sampling method. …”
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Board effectiveness, managerial ownership and company performance by Md Kassim, Aza Azlina, Ishak, Zuaini, Abdul Manaf, Nor Aziah

“…The study examines the effects of board process and managerial ownership on company performance of Malaysian public listed companies.Unlike traditional governance models that emphasize on board structure, this study focuses on board process.Two types of data are used; a survey to Malaysian directors and company annual reports.In total, 175 companies responded to the questionnaires, which represent 26% of response rate.The results of the study provide evidence that board’s risks oversight and performance of independent directors are associated to company performance.The results provide feedback to the policy makers in Malaysia as the results indicate that board effectiveness influences company performance.…”
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The effect of ownership structure on firm performance in Malaysia by Taufil Mohd, Kamarun Nisham, Md Rus, Rohani, Musallam, Sami R. M.

“…This paper aims to investigate and analyze the effect of ownership by different groups of investors on the performance of listed companies in Malaysia for a period of ten years from 2000 to 2009.The results of GLS show that firm performance is positive and significantly related to five government-linked investment companies, foreign ownership, and DPIIs ownership while it is negatively and significantly related to state ownership.These results imply that government ownership through GLICs does not lead to value destruction.In fact, it could lead to better monitoring.However, state ownership leads to lower values.…”
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The effect of ownership structure on firm performance in Malaysia by Taufil Mohd, Kamarun Nisham, Md Rus, Rohani, Musallam, Sami R. M.

“…This paper aims to investigate and analyze the effect of ownership by different groups of investors on the performance of listed companies in Malaysia for a period of ten years from 2000 to 2009.The results of GLS show that firm performance is positive and significantly related to five government-linked investment companies, foreign ownership, and DPIIs ownership while it is negatively and significantly related to state ownership.These results imply that government ownership through GLICs does not lead to value destruction.In fact, it could lead to better monitoring.However, state ownership leads to lower values.…”
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Understanding the share ownership of institutional investors in Malaysia by Abd Mutalib, Hafizah, Muhammad Jamil, Che Zuriana, Wan Hussin, Wan Nordin

“…The vast amount of assets owned by institutional investors has significantly altered the ownership structure of organizations.The purpose of this study is to explore the share ownership by institutional investors among firms listed on Bursa Malaysia.The sample consists of 330 firms as listed in 2011, and the share ownership of institutional investors is measured by the percentage of ownership held by the institutional investors in the annual report.The results reveal that more than two-third of the firms under study has share ownership by institutional investors. …”
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Control-ownership patterns in Turkey-listed firms by Mustafa, Aree S, Che Ahmad, Ayoib, Chandren, Sitraselvi

“…The motivation of this study stems from the importance of protecting investors’ rights, and particularly those of minority shareholders.This study addresses the predominant control-ownership structure of the top 100 firms listed in Bursa Istanbul (BI) using the data for 2015. …”
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UK REIT conversion and institutional ownership dynamic by Wong, Woei Chyuan

“…Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of conversion to REIT status by former listed property companies in the United Kingdom on the level of institutional ownership during the period of 2007–2016. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses an event study framework to track the change in institutional ownership three years before and after a REIT conversion event. …”
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Decision to pay dividends and ownership structures in Nigeria by Adamu, Adamu Idris, Ishak, Rokiah, Hassan, Nor Laili

“…Empirical evidence on how ownership structures influence decision to pay dividends remain unclear in the dividend policy literature. …”
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Effects of ownership and board structures on acquisitions returns by Ishak, Norhamiza, Taufil Mohd, Kamarun Nisham, Shahar, Hanita Kadir

“…Since acquisitions create agency problems and companies in Malaysia exhibit concentrated ownership structures, this study aimed to investigate three major objectives namely the effects of family control, blockholder activism, and board structures on the stock performance of acquirers. …”
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Agency theory and managerial ownership: Evidence from Malaysia by Mustapha, Mazlina, Che Ahmad, Ayoib

“…Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of managerial ownership in relation to agency theory in the Malaysian business environment.In addition to examining the total managerial shareholdings, this study also investigates the association between direct and indirect managerial shareholdings with agency costs. …”
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Corporate ownership, governance and tax avoidance: An interactive effects by Annuar, Hairul Azlan, Salihu, Ibrahim Aramide, Sheikh Obid, Siti Normala

“…Although tax avoidance practices are as old as taxes themselves, the ways they are being perpetrated among corporate taxpayers have transmuted so sophisticated in recent times.This study thus proposes models for empirical investigations into the relationship between corporate ownership structure and corporate tax avoidance in Malaysia.It was argued, based on cost/benefits consideration of tax avoidance, that family; foreign and government ownerships could be associated with corporate tax avoidance among Malaysian listed companies.The study further proposes that strong governance mechanism could mitigate such association.Two econometrics dynamic panel data models are proposed for the investigation.Generalized Method Moment (GMM) estimator is recommended as the estimation method.…”
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Ownership structure impacting value relevance of accounting information by Shamki, Dhiaa, Al-Arussi, Ali

“…The paper aims to indicate the impact of ownership structure traced by domestic and foreign shareholders numbers on the value relevance of earnings and book value individually and in aggregate for Jordanian industrial sector within the period from 1992 to 2002.Using price model, domestic and total shareholders numbers significantly declined the value relevance of both individual and aggregate book value but not that of earnings. …”
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Managerial ownership, horizontal agency costs and monitoring mechanisms by Arowolo, Rachael Oluyemisi

“…Company operations are characterized by information asymmetry between the agent (management and the board of directors) and the principal (shareholders).The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the extent of monitoring mechanisms in Nigerian non-financial listed companies and the impact of managerial ownership and horizontal-agency -costs on the mechanisms.The study adopted a quantitative approach and distributed 332 questionnaires to 166 non-financial listed companies to obtain a cross-sectional data for the internal auditing.The findings give credible evidence that the horizontal-agency-cost is positively significant while managerial ownership is negatively significant. …”
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Women directors, family ownership and earnings management in Malaysia by Abdullah, Shamsul Nahar, Ku Ismail, Ku Nor Izah

“…The evidence further reveals that family ownership does not interact with either WOMBD or WOMAC to influence income-decreasing earnings management. …”
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