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GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES AND DIVIDEND POLICY: SOME EVIDENCE ON THE ROLE OF ETHNICITY IN AN EMERGING ECONOMY’
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Ravichandran K. Subramaniam 
, Mohammed Shaiban , Susela Devi Suppiah
Abstract
This paper examines the association between growth opportunities and dividend payouts and moderates the relationship between growth opportunities and dividend payouts. Our sample consisted of the Malaysian top 300 public listed companies (in terms of market capitalization) for a period from 2004 to 2011. Based on a specified selection process, the sample contained 1330 firm-year observations, after excluding firms with missing data. This paper finds that growth opportunities is associated with less dividends payouts and that this relationship is weaker for Bumiputera ethnic controlled firms. Furthermore, the results show that this negative association exists only for non-Government Linked Controlled firms.
Keywords: Growth Opportunities, Dividend Payout, Ethnicity, Free Cash Flow Theory
How to cite this paper: Subramaniam, R. K., Shaiban, M., & Suppiah, S. D. K. (2014). Growth opportunities and dividend policy: some evidence on the role of ethnicity in an emerging economy’. Corporate Ownership & Control, 12(1), 126-138. https://doi.org/10.22495/cocv12i1p9
