The Relationship between the Board Structure and Corporation Performance - based on the Manufacturing Industry

摘要

Corporate governance has become a worldwide topic in recent years. The main purpose of the corporation governance is to maximize the shareholders' profits. While, the board of directors is a vital part of corporate governance structure, playing an important role in decision-making and supervision. Whether the corporate could establish an efficient board of directors will affect, corporate performance. Recently, the manufacturing industry develops at a highly speed and it contributes a lot in economic development, so the data from this industry is used to have a study on the relationship between board of directors and corporate performance. The paper reviews the former studies and based on related theories to analysis 200 listed companies in manufacturing industry by using SPSS. From the result, it shows that a suitable board size, more independent directors, more board meeting and so on could all improve the financial performance of the corporate.