Agency Costs and Ownership Structure in Australia

By G. Fleming, Richard Heaney, Rochelle McCosker. 2005

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Ownership Structure and Earnings Management in Malaysian Listed Companies: The Size Effect (2008, result): “This argument is consistent with Fleming et al. (2005) who find a significant positive relationship between agency conflicts, and the degree of separation between ownership and control.”
Revisiting Agency Theory: Evidence of Board Independence and Agency Cost from Bangladesh (2015, background): “Subsequently many studies on corporate governance have used these measures of agency cost (see Brau 2002; Singh and Davidson 2003; Leming et al. 2005; Florackis 2008; Ibrahim and Samad 2011; Rashid and Hoque 2011; Wellalage and Locke 2012; Rashid 2013).”
Voluntary corporate governance structure and financial distress: Evidence from Australia (2015, background): “An audit committee in a firm works as an internal corporate governance mechanism and reduces agency costs (Forker, 1992), and plays an important role in helping boards of directors in fulfilling their corporate governance responsibilities (Spira, 2003).”
Agency theory: Review of Theory and Evidence on Problems and Perspectives (2017, background): “8 Fleming et al. 2005 Australia 3,800 Australian SMEs from 1996 to 1998.”