Corruption perception, institutional quality and performance of listed companies in Nigeria.

We examine the effect of corruption perception and institutional quality on the performance of firms based on the extracted data for 135 listed companies in Nigeria with timeframe 2013-2017. We first use the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index for the baseline analysis, which evaluates the public officials and politicians' corruption practices. To capture institutional quality, which depicts the level of law enforcement to curb corruptive practices of the public officials, we use the first component via Principle Component Analysis of six governance indicators extracted from World Bank Governance Indicators.

Social capital and its effect on business performance in the Nigeria informal sector.

This study was aimed at investigating the effect of internal and external social capital on the financial and non-financial performance of businesses in the Nigerian informal sector. The study further investigated the controlling role of firm age. A cross-sectional survey of 650 informal business owners in the Ikeja region of Lagos state, Nigeria was carried out.

Board meeting frequency and firm performance: examining the nexus in Nigerian deposit money banks.

The main aim of this study is to examine the impact of board meeting frequency on firm performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria. Data used for the study were spawned from annual reports of the deposit money banks listed on Nigeria stock exchange (NSE) market. We employed a panel regression to test the significant association amid variables.

Datasets for board meeting frequency and financial performance of Nigerian deposit money banks.

This article provides data on the impact of board meeting frequency and financial performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria. We obtained the dataset from Nigeria stock exchange (NSE) database. The time frame used for this work is 2010-2016.