Are boards of directors in Malaysia ethnically diversified?

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Ahmad Zaluki, Nurwati Ashikkin, Abu Bakar, Juhaida
• التنسيق: Conference or Workshop Item
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2008
• الموضوعات: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://repo.uum.edu.my/2666/1/Pages_from_NHRM_proceedings_2008_1607082233.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/2666/

This paper examines the ethnic profile of board members in 235 newly listed Malaysian companies at the time of public offerings during the period 1999 to 2006. Using Blau’s (1977) index of heterogeneity, we find evidence of the existence of ethnic diversity among board members of these companies. Fu...