| Summary: | The main aim of listed firms is to establish good corporate governance measures along with increasing the financial performance of the firms in the process. One of the major concerns faced by organisations is the separation of ownership and control. To reduce conflicts of intertest between managers and shareholders and increase financial performance, the board of directors play a crucial role. This research study has discussed the impact of corporate governance measures on firm financial performance in the case of UK listed retail firms.
The literature review set out to examine the importance of corporate governance on firm financial performance along with intending to discover the relationship between board composition and firm performance. The literature review also attempted to analyse the impact of the proportion of non-executive directors on financial performance of firms in terms of gross profit and turnover. The discussion of the literature review was backed by other researchers who presented their perspectives on the research questions.
In order to further investigate the research questions, the quantitative research approach was found to be the most suitable and the research philosophy of positivism was adopted. By using the fixed effect model, the results from the regression suggested that the null hypothesis of this research study has failed to be rejected. Further, findings from the correlation test discovered a weak, moderate relationship between board composition and firm financial performance. The results also portrayed that the control variables do not have any significant impact on the financial performance of firms.
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