Jurnal Keuangan dan Perbankan
Vol 22, No 4 (2018): October 2018

Good Corporate Governance: Firm Performance and Ownership Causality Test

Tri Gunarsih (Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economics, Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta Jl. Siliwangi, Ring Road Utara, Sleman, Yogyakarta, 55285)
Setiyono Setiyono (Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economics, Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta Jl. Siliwangi, Ring Road Utara, Sleman, Yogyakarta, 55285)
Fran Sayekti (Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economics, Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta Jl. Siliwangi, Ring Road Utara, Sleman, Yogyakarta, 55285)
Tamas Novak (Budapest Business School H-1051 Budapest, Marko Street 29-31)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Oct 2018

Abstract

Ownership structure, among other things, is one mechanism in corporate governance. In this context, ownership has a monitoring function. Another corporate governance mechanism is the market for corporate control. If managers did not act in the best interest of shareholder, then firm performance will decrease. The changing in ownership will follow the decreasing of firm performance. This will raise an interesting question, whether ownership caused by firm performance or vice versa. The objectives of this study to test whether monitoring function or market for corporate control that was implemented as a corporate governance mechanism in Indonesia using causality model. A panel Granger-causality test base on Ganger (1969) applied to test the causality. Samples in this study were manufacture listed companies in Indonesia Stock Exchange during 2012-2016. Ownership concentration was proxy by the Herfindahl Index of Domestic Institution ownership. The firm performance indicators in this study were efficiency, measured by Operating cost to Sales ratio, and Sales to Asset ratio and Tobin’s Q. The results of the study showed that there was a bi-causality relationship between ownership concentration and both firm performance indicators. These suggested that the monitoring function and the market for corporate control were implemented as a corporate governance mechanism in Indonesia.    JEL Classification: G32, G34, G23DOI: https://doi.org/10.26905/jkdp.v22i4.2469

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