Practices of capital structure decisions in Malaysia

Literatures in the area of finance indicate that over the years, academics have not been successful to develop a model to explain decision making in important areas such as capital structure. How firms make their corporate financing decisions has been one of the most extensively researched areas in...

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Main Authors:	Ibrahim, Khairunisah, Haron, Razali, Mat Nor, Fauzias, Ibrahim , Izani, Alias, Norazlan
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2011
Subjects:	HG4001 Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance.
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/10825/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/10825/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/10825/1/GBSSR_Practices_of_Capital_Structure_Decisions_in_Malaysia.pdf

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spelling	iium-108252011-12-18T03:33:44Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/10825/ Practices of capital structure decisions in Malaysia Ibrahim, Khairunisah Haron, Razali Mat Nor, Fauzias Ibrahim , Izani Alias, Norazlan HG4001 Financial management. Business finance. Corporation finance. Literatures in the area of finance indicate that over the years, academics have not been successful to develop a model to explain decision making in important areas such as capital structure. How firms make their corporate financing decisions has been one of the most extensively researched areas in corporate finance. Yet there is little consensus on how firms choose their capital structure and muchremains to understand the link between theory and practice of capital structure.This study examines the capital structure practices of the Malaysian CEOs by employing a survey analysis on the non-financial listed firms in Malaysia.This study is to observe critically how the dynamics of capital structure choice are influenced by the dispositions of those who make the decisions in practice. Responses are also analyzed conditional upon few firm and management characteristics. The study enriches the literature by discovering the extent to which the capital structure theories are able to explain the corporate financing behavior and practices of Malaysian managers. 2011-06-20 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/10825/1/GBSSR_Practices_of_Capital_Structure_Decisions_in_Malaysia.pdf Ibrahim, Khairunisah and Haron, Razali and Mat Nor, Fauzias and Ibrahim , Izani and Alias, Norazlan (2011) Practices of capital structure decisions in Malaysia. In: Global Business and Social Science Research Conference , 20-21 June 2011, Beijing, China. http://www.wbiworld.org/
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description	Literatures in the area of finance indicate that over the years, academics have not been successful to develop a model to explain decision making in important areas such as capital structure. How firms make their corporate financing decisions has been one of the most extensively researched areas in corporate finance. Yet there is little consensus on how firms choose their capital structure and muchremains to understand the link between theory and practice of capital structure.This study examines the capital structure practices of the Malaysian CEOs by employing a survey analysis on the non-financial listed firms in Malaysia.This study is to observe critically how the dynamics of capital structure choice are influenced by the dispositions of those who make the decisions in practice. Responses are also analyzed conditional upon few firm and management characteristics. The study enriches the literature by discovering the extent to which the capital structure theories are able to explain the corporate financing behavior and practices of Malaysian managers.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Ibrahim, Khairunisah Haron, Razali Mat Nor, Fauzias Ibrahim , Izani Alias, Norazlan
author_facet	Ibrahim, Khairunisah Haron, Razali Mat Nor, Fauzias Ibrahim , Izani Alias, Norazlan
author_sort	Ibrahim, Khairunisah
title	Practices of capital structure decisions in Malaysia
title_short	Practices of capital structure decisions in Malaysia
title_full	Practices of capital structure decisions in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Practices of capital structure decisions in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Practices of capital structure decisions in Malaysia
title_sort	practices of capital structure decisions in malaysia
publishDate	2011
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/10825/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/10825/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/10825/1/GBSSR_Practices_of_Capital_Structure_Decisions_in_Malaysia.pdf
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