Abstract: Any economic activity is performed by an organization need to act as what actually people want. Corporate Governance is an effective tool to manage organization's performance. This paper has aim to study effects of corporate governance on organizational performance by taking a case study of banking sector of Pakistan. A five year secondary data from 2009 to 2013 have been collected from various published reports and websites of fifteen selected banks which are listed in Lahore Stock Exchange. For this study, board size, board meetings, non executive directors, bank size and leverage have been taken as independent variables while bank performance has been considered as dependent variable which is measured through return on assets and return of equity. The overall results show that corporate governance has significant relationship with bank performance.
Keywords: Bank Efficiency, Corporate Governance, Board Size, Financial Performance, Capital Structure
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