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Do foreign ownership and foreign directorship matter for return on equity? Evidence from Malaysian listed companies

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  • Peck Ling Tee
  • Chee Seong Lim
  • Nai Chiek Aik

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The Malaysian Government has liberalised its restrictions on foreign equity ownership in local companies to enhance the country's competitiveness against regional neighbours in attracting more FDI inflows. With an overall panel of 4,176 firm-year observations drawn from a sample of 348 Malaysia-listed companies over the period 1999-2010, fixed-effect panel data regression found that percentage of foreign equity ownership, appointment of foreign chairman and appointment of foreign chief executive director did not have any significant relationship with firm's return on equity (ROE). However, increase in percentage of foreign directors sitting on a company's board significantly improved ROE. Besides, only when foreign investors have dominant (above 50%) voting rights, ROE increased. After categorised firm-year observations into five SIC-defined sectors, manufacturing sector sub-panel yielded similar results as overall panel. In contrast to overall panel, construction and wholesale trade sectors sub-panels showed the appointments of foreign chairman and foreign chief executive director negatively influenced ROE.

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  • Peck Ling Tee & Chee Seong Lim & Nai Chiek Aik, 2017. "Do foreign ownership and foreign directorship matter for return on equity? Evidence from Malaysian listed companies," International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 12(1), pages 47-64.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbget:v:12:y:2017:i:1:p:47-64
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    1. Hidaya Othmani, 2022. "Foreign institutional ownership and bank performance: Evidence from Tunisia," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 34(1), pages 42-53, March.

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