Working capital management and corporate governance: a new pathway for assessing firm performance

ABSTRACT

This study reports the relationship of working capital management (WCM) and corporate governance (CG) on firm performance (FP) using system generalized method of moments (SGMM). SGMM controls potential sources of endogeneity. This study uses US listed firms and includes two stages. In the first stage, the individual impact of WCM and CG on FP is examined. In the second stage, the collective effect of WCM and CG on FP is examined. The study finds that efficient WCM and good CG practices do affect FP on both an individual basis and on a collective basis. Therefore, this study recommends that the impact of WCM, being a short-term performance indicator, and CG, being a long-term indicator should be considered collectively in the future while investigating financial FP.

KEYWORDS:

• Working capital management
• corporate governance
• system generalized method of moments
• US
• endogeneity

JEL CLASSIFICATION:

• C23
• G30
• L25
• M41

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.