The Impacts of Risk Management Structure on Efficiency Performance in Politically Connected Malaysian General Insurance Companies

Qian, Long Kweh and Noor Azlinna, Azizan and Irene, Wei Kiong Ting and Wen-Min, Lu (2015) The Impacts of Risk Management Structure on Efficiency Performance in Politically Connected Malaysian General Insurance Companies. In: Asian Academy Of Management , 2-5 Oct 2015 , Penang. . (Unpublished)

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Abstract

In today’s challenging business world, insurers should focus on improving their competitive advantages to secure increased profits and reduced costs. This study investigates whether political connections affect the relationship between risk management and the operating efficiency of general insurance companies operating in Malaysia for the period 2008-2011. First, this research applies the two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) methodology, decomposing the typical two-stage operating process of general insurance companies: marketing efficiency and profitability efficiency of the sample firms. The sample firms have to first improve their marketing efficiency, and then proceed to improve their profitability efficiency. Second, this study applies panel data regression to test the impact of risk management on general insurers’ performance. Consistent with prior studies, we rerun our regression analysis using Tobit regression. Consistently, we find that risk management only has a negative impact on the operating efficiency of Malaysian general insurers with political connections.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	OR in Insurance, Two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis, Risk Management, Political Connection
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Faculty/Division:	Faculty of Industrial Management
Depositing User:	Mrs. Neng Sury Sulaiman
Date Deposited:	02 Nov 2015 02:38
Last Modified:	25 May 2022 02:43
URI:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/10966
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