tailieunhanh - The effect of corporate governance characteristics on the performance of Jordanian banks

This study represents a new attempt to show the role of corporate governance characteristics on the performance of Jordanian Banks expressed by return on equity ROE during the period from 2014 to 2017. The investigation employed statistics measurements and tools to state the relationships between ROE and different variables. | The effect of corporate governance characteristics on the performance of Jordanian banks Accounting 6 2020 117 126 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Accounting homepage ac The effect of corporate governance characteristics on the performance of Jordanian banks Lina Warrada and Laith Khaddama aApplied Science Private University Jordan CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history Corporate governance has become a common discussion issue in developed and developing countries. Therefore Received October 29 2019 the intensive interest that the corporate governance determines firm performance and protects the interests of Received in revised format shareholders has result in increasing global concern about the corporate governance concept and determinants. November 21 2019 There is an increasing forms of corporate finance literature which build a correlation between corporate governance Accepted November 29 2019 techniques and financial performance. This study represents a new attempt to show the role of corporate governance Available online characteristics on the performance of Jordanian Banks expressed by return on equity ROE during the period from December 2 2019 2014 to 2017. The investigation employed statistics measurements and tools to state the relationships between ROE Keywords and different variables. The study indicates a significant effects of different corporate governance characteristics Corporate governance on the performance of banks. In other words the study reports significant effects of the board size board diligence Return on Equity audit committee size and audit committee diligence separately on ROE by considering two controlling variables Amman Stock Exchange ASE namely firm size and return on assets. 2020 by the authors licensee Growing Science Canada 1. Introduction . Agency Theory Agency theory has become the backbone of corporate governance. It is the premier theory to express corporate governance. Agency .