Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship among financial performance (FP), firm value (FV), transparency and corporate governance (CG) from family-owned business in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This study used secondary data sets for analysis. This study applied descriptive statistics and cross-section analysis in order to better understand the actual facts and figures. The results indicate that majority of analysed companies do not provide a public access to their annual reports. However, comparison of average revenues for companies from each group allowed that there is a statistically significant difference found in revenue received by private family firms and public family firms. The public family companies receive 1.5 times higher annual revenue as compare to private family-owned companies. Finally, the linear regression model shows that there is insignificant relationship exist between corporate governance and company’s financial performance.
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Misbah Sadiq
Dr. Misbah Sadiq, Assistant professor of Finance at Al Qasimia University UAE.
Tarek Roshdy Abdelhalem Gebba
Dr. Tarek Roshdy Abdelhalem Gebba, Professor of Management at Al Qasimia University UAE.