Board Composition and Firm Performance

General Comments: * Where is the cover page and its contents? Had it been there I might have commented on ur full title. * Long paragraphs are observed. Pls put different ideas in different paragraphs. * Be consistent in the use of terms for your variables. * I read three critical sections in the interest of time: Methodology, Problem statement and objective. The purpose of such partial reading is not to stop ur progress. U can collect data, analyze it and write the whole thesis. I will read the other sections later when I get sufficient time…..Before I start to follow such partial reading strategy, I read and commented your background of the study. * I see many irrelevant materials in your methodology section. * You have a significant problem of not quoting source for information taken from the literature. Avoid this behavior when you are a researcher. * You seems confused on which theory of CG you will follow i.e. shareholders vs. stakeholders theory. * I see much literature in the methodology section. Especially you discussed the relationship between each of your IV and DV in the methodology section. But this should have finished in LR section. Why u make your writing redundant? * You better add many other board characteristics variables as IVs in your model. Besides add other internal governance mechanisms like CEO compensation, debt policy, management ownership etc as IVs…..In general read more literature and add many IVs to have real contribution beyond simple studies that use small number of IVs. * Don’t use the words I, my, we, our etc because they make it personal witting. What is needed is professional writing whereby the researcher is detached from the research work. This is sensible in quantitative studies like yours. * If you see three dots enclosed by white box at the end a comment (as in Comment No T-9 in the problem statement etc), you click the box and then you will get additional comment at the left

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