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Board of directors and bank performance: beyond agency theory

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  • Charbel Salloum
  • Elie Bouri
  • Danielle Khalife

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By integrating agency, stewardship and resource-dependency perspectives, this paper associated three characteristics of the board of directors - outside directors, insiders' equity ownership and leadership duality (Executive Officer also being the Chairman of the Board) - with bank's financial performance in Lebanon. Using a panel model, and after controlling for endogeneity problems, we examined 54 listed and unlisted banks from 2005 to 2010. Our results implied that the presence of outside directors on the board and the leadership duality have no statistical impact on performance. It seems that severe regulations by the Lebanese monetary authority act as an external governance mechanism. On the contrary, insiders' ownership promotes convergence of the interests of managers/shareholders and shapes the performance of banks. Our findings may well urge Lebanese bankers and regulators towards further development and implementation of governance practices to enhance the performance and the stability of one of the pillars of the Lebanese economy.

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  • Charbel Salloum & Elie Bouri & Danielle Khalife, 2013. "Board of directors and bank performance: beyond agency theory," International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 8(3), pages 265-288.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbget:v:8:y:2013:i:3:p:265-288
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