The impact of the applying corporate governance rules on the performance of Islamic banks: An Empirical Study

Abstract

Through this paper we seek to determine the relationship between the variables of corporate governance and financial performance of Islamic banks, where we measure the impact of corporate governance variables on financial performance through an empirical study on a sample of Islamic banks during the period 2005-2012. The study found that there is a very strong relationship between the variables of governance and financial performance of Islamic banks, where there is a positive relationship between return on assets and the composition of the Board of Directors, the size of the Board of Directors, the number of committees in the Council, as well as the number of members of the Sharia Supervisory Board, while it is clear that there is a negative relationship between return on assets and owner concentration variable.