Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Arifur Khan, Nava Subramaniam
Purpose – This study aims to purport to investigate the relationship between firm size, profitability, board diversity (namely, director gender and nationality) and the extent of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures within a developing nation context. Design/methodology/approach – The d...
Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Arifur Khan
Md. Shahid Ullah, Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Arifur Khan
Purpose The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the association between corporate governance and the extent of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures in insurance companies, using archival data. Design/methodology/approach The data set comprises 277 listed insurance company-ye...
Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Dessalegn Getie Mihret, Arifur Khan
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the association of corporate political connection with the level of voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures to determine how the relationships between the state and the corporate sector influence CSR engagement. Design/methodology/a...
Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Reza Monem, Arifur Khan, Nava Subramaniam
We investigate the role of political connections in the performance of family firms. We do so in the setting of Bangladesh, an emerging economy in which family firms are dominant and a weak regulatory environment increases the payoffs from political connections. We find that family firms perform bet...
Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Arifur Khan, Dessalegn Getie Mihret
Purpose This study aims to investigate the moderating role of audit quality on the association between business group affiliation of firms and earnings management in the South Asian emerging economy of Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach A usable sample of 917 firm-year observations was drawn fr...
Arifur Khan, Dessalegn Getie Mihret, Mohammad Badrul Muttakin
Purpose The effect of political connections of agency costs has attracted considerable research attention due to the increasing recognition of the fact that political connection influences corporate decisions and outcomes. This paper aims to explore the association between corporate political connec...
Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Arifur Khan, Nava Subramaniam
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of family ownership on firm performance. In particular the authors investigate whether family firms outperform non-family firms and whether first generation family firms perform better than second generation family firms in an emerging eco...
Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Arifur Khan, Nava Subramaniam
We investigate the relationship between corporate board structure and firm performance of Bangladeshi companies. Using a sample of 654 firm year observations for the period 2005-2009, the results show some support for aspects of agency theory as a greater proportion of independent directors on board...
Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Shahid Ullah
The study investigates the relationship between the corporate governance structure and performance of listed banks in Bangladesh. We find that board independence and board size have a significant positive impact on performance. However, female directors appear to have no impact on performance. Our e...
Fara Azmat, Ahmed Shahriar Ferdous, Faisal Ibne Wali, Mohammad Badrul Muttakin et al.
Purpose This study examines whether engagement with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-focused specialized training programs enable senior public officials (focal actor) to collectively deliver on public services that have a transformational societal impact over time. Further, the study explores the...
Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Salma Ahmed
Mohammad Badrul Muttakin
\n\t\t\t\t\tThis thesis provides critical empirical evidence on Bangladeshi family firm governance structures and their impacts on firm performance while taking political connections into consideration. Based on some theoretical argument the thesis presents some unique and robust results which are c...
Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Reza Monem, Arifur Khan, Nava Subramaniam
We investigate the role of political connections in the performance of family firms. We do so in the setting of Bangladesh, an emerging economy in which family firms are dominant and a weak regulatory environment increases the payoffs from political connections. We find that family firms perform bet...
Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Arifur Khan, Nava Subramaniam
Abstract This study investigates whether there are significant differences in corporate board structure between family and non-family firms using listed companies in Bangladesh where family firms are the most dominant form of public companies. The results of this study suggest that family firms in B...
Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Arifur Khan, Nava Subramaniam
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of family ownership on firm performance. In particular the authors investigate whether family firms outperform non-family firms and whether first generation family firms perform better than second generation family firms in an emerging eco...