Empirical research on the relationship between board governance and corporate performance

Board governance is at the core of the corporate governance, to establish a standard and reasonable structure is the important content of perfecting corporate governance mechanism. Board governance in China is in its infancy, the listed company´s board of directors´ governance situation is worrying, problems like the unreasonable structure, lack of effective incentive, insufficient supervision and constraint still exist. In this context, this paper selected the China´s A-share listed companies as samples, based on the result of the empirical research of 2011-2013 data, we found board size, the chairman and general manager conditions, the number of board meetings were negatively correlated with corporate performance; the number of committees and the proportion of board shareholding were positively correlated with corporate performance.