Abstract: Board structure has specific country-based features that enables the efficient and effective handling of firms’ financial performance. In Kenya, the all-round board structure importance in enhancing the commercial and service industry performance cannot be over stated as this potentially affects the profitability of these firms and the industry at large. However, the ineffectiveness and poor management of firms by the board over the years has led to the decline in the commercial and service firms’ financial performance. With regard to this background, this inquiry attempts to close existing gaps in literature by investigating the manner in which board structure affects commercial listed and service listed firms’ financial performance at the Nairobi Securities and Exchange Kenya. With the interest variables to be board size, independence, tenure and age affecting the traded firms’ performance financially on Nairobi Securities and Exchange commercial and service firms in Kenya. An ex-post research design was utilized in this investigation. Relying on the presupposition in which the study employed, stewardship, agency and resources dependence theories were adopted to explain their relevance to the work. Eleven (11) listed commercial and service firms was used to determine how such board structure variables determine the listed firms financial performance between 2015 and 2022. Notably from the output, board size was noted to be insignificantly affected inversely Kenyan listed commercial and service firms’ financial performance; board independence was considered by the output to be positive on the financial performance noting significance; board tenure was also revealed to have positive and yet insignificant on financial performance; while board age was negatively in a manner that is insignificantly affected performance financially. The drawn recommendation put across is that the Kenyan management of these firms should consider cutting down the size of the board to improve performance financially.
Keywords: Board Independence, Board Size, Board Age, Board Tenure, Firm Size and Financial Performance.
Title: BOARD STRUCTURE AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF COMMERCIAL AND SERVICE FIRMS LISTED AT THE NAIROBI SECURITIES EXCHANGE, KENYA
Author: Ezra Ochieng Oboo, Moses Odhiambo Aluoch (PhD)
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations
ISSN 2348-7585 (Online)
Vol. 11, Issue 2, October 2023 - March 2024
Page No: 140-155
Research Publish Journals
Website: www.researchpublish.com
Published Date: 01-December-2023
