Performance
Vol 28 No 1 (2021): Performance

Can Board of Directors Diversity and Monitoring Intensity Improve Bank Profitability?

Septian Yudha Kusuma (Politeknik Negeri Semarang)
Sudarman Sudarman (Institut Teknologi dan Bisnis Semarang)
Vita Arumsari (Politeknik Negeri Semarang)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Jan 2021

Abstract

The purpose of this study to analyze the effect of board of directors diversity and monitoring intensity to profitability. Board of directors diversity measured by a composite index of gender, age, education, citizenship, and independence of the board of directors. Meanwhile, monitoring intensity measured by the composition of audit quality, number of meetings, and the number of committee. The objects are banks listed in the Indonesia Stock Exchange period of 2015-2017 with a panel data regression. Selected samples was 40 banks and 120 observation. The results showed that board of directors diversity had a significant negative on profitability, this result provoke a gap to the previous research. While monitoring intensity is positive significant to profitability. Some practical and implications will be discussed in this study.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

performance

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

Performance is our bianually peer-reviewed journal, designed to accommodate research articles in the domain of management science. This journal has been published by Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman since 2003. We invite articles in all functional area of management, ...