تأثير خصائص مجلس الإدارة في الأداء التنظيمي للبنوك المصرية

Abstract EN

The aim of this study is to test the impact of BOD characteristics on the Egyptian banks' performance.

Five board of directors’ characteristics being studied, including board size, board independence, CEO duality, gender diversity and board committees.

Return on Assets (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE) were used as measurements for bank financial performance.

Five hypotheses were formed.

Multicollinearity Tests, Correlation Analysis and Regression analysis were applied.

A population of (31) Egyptian banks was studied.

The census procedure was applied.

The secondary data of the Egyptian banks was used.

The data were obtained from the web sites of the Egyptian banks.

The results show that board size, CEO duality and gender diversity have positive relationship with (ROA) and (ROE).

However, the impact of independent members and board committees on performance is not supported.

The study finds also that bank age and ownership do not affect the relationship between board characteristics and the financial performance of the Egyptian Banks.

Theses results support previous literature and show consistency with the agency theory.

This study contributes to the existence literature of corporate governance as it is one of the few Egyptian studies which have examined the effect of governance mechanisms on the Egyptian banks' performance.

This study offers insights to regulators, investors and bank board members in Egypt and other emerging countries concerning board characteristics and its impact on corporate governance performance.

These findings can potentially help banks improve performance by considering the features found significant in this study.

The author is just taking some board’s attributes, but the concept of board characteristics is a very wide one.

The research rely only on the secondary data available on the web sites of the Egyptian banks.