Upper Echelon Theory Revisited: The Relationship between CEO Personal Characteristics and Financial Leverage Decision

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Upper Echelon Theory Revisited: The Relationship between CEO Personal Characteristics and Financial Leverage Decision

From the upper echelons perspective, we investigate the financial leverage decision of publicly listed companies in Bursa Malaysia for the period from 2002 to 2011. Using pooled OLS and fixed-effect regressions, we examine the impacts of CEO personal characteristics on financial leverage. Our measur...

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Main Authors:	Noor Azlinna, Azizan, Irene, Wei Kiong Ting, Qian, Long Kweh
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2015
Subjects:	T Technology (General)
Online Access:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/9969/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/9969/1/Upper%20Echelon%20Theory%20Revisited-%20The%20Relationship%20between%20CEO%20Personal%20Characteristics%20and%20Financial%20Leverage%20Decision.pdf

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