Corporate governance and firm performance in Malaysia / Mas Izean Heziqa Mohammad Mushadad

The study of this paper was to see the significant relationship of corporate governance implementation that affect the firm performance. Thus, the purposed of this study is to see the impact of corporate governance implementation in performance of public listed company where it's able in fascinate the curiosity of local and foreign investors. Besides firm performances, this study also will show how the corporate governance implementation influence the performance of public listed companies. The determinant of this study consist of firm performance that niche on earning per share where corporate governance and companies' performance which focus on board size, non executive director, CEO duality, leverage, and firm size. The data was a secondary data that retrieved from Eikon Thomson Reuters Data Stream and companies' annual report from January 2014 until December 2016. In this paper the panel least square method are used as a practice in measuring their relationship. The finding for this research has been obtained which is variable CEO Duality has negative relationship with firm performance. While proportion of non-executive director are positively significant with firm performance. Other than that, the board size also are positively significant with firm performance.