TY - SER AU - Nguyen Thi Hong Van AU - Venkatesh,Sundar AU - Do,Ba Khang AU - Tang,John C.S. ED - Government of French, ED - AIT Fellowship, TI - Corporate governance: corporate financial disclosure in the Thai Banking Industry T2 - Research studies project report PY - 2004/// CY - Pathum Thani, Thailand PB - Asian Institute of Technology KW - Banks and banking KW - Thailand KW - Corporate governance KW - Financial disclosure N1 - A research study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration, School of Management; Research Studies Project Report (M. BA.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2004 N2 - There are abundant researches on financial disclosure and its relationship with finn characteristics, but no one focuses particularly on banking industry in Thailand. This study emphasizes on both national context and business environment factors of banking industry by tailoring criteria to rank the financial disclosure practices of Thai listed banks. It also tests the association between levels of disclosures with three banks' characteristics, viz bank size, ownership diffusion and bank perfonnance. The findings show the relatively uniform in financial disclosure practices among most of Thai banks; the less diffused or more concentrated ownership, the less is the level of disclosure while the better perfonnance, the higher the level of disclosure. The relation between bank size and the level of disclosure is not significant UR - http://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B09576 ER -