The effect of corporate governance mechanisms toward healthcare sector in Malaysia / Umar Alfarouq Jaafar Shidek

This paper studies the effects of corporate governance mechanisms towards the firms' performance from companies that are listed in Bursa Malaysia. There are many factors that affect the firms' performance which comprises assets and equity. In this research, there are four factors to be focused on which are the board size (total number of directors in the Board of Directors), number of board meetings, number of independent directors and number of women directors. Multiple regression model was used to analyse the relationship between each factor to the dependent variable which is firm performance that will be measured by using the Return on Equity (ROE) of that certain firm. In particular, a clear assessment of this subject would be very beneficial to the company managers who will be responsible for deciding the form of corporate governance policy that the company can use to improve the efficiency of its company. The total number of companies used as the sample in these studies are consists of 10 healthcare sector firms and a time frame of 10 years being used to retrieve the data from the annual report which make a total of 100 observation been made.