Details of Research Outputs

While defining and differentiating company secretaries from the party secretaries in China, this chapter aims to investigate preliminarily the personal characteristics of company secretaries who act as board directors in 1555 Chinese listed companies. The empirical results prove that older age, a higher degree, and more managerial experience increase the likelihood of a company secretary acting as the chair and/or a director at the same time as acting as the company secretary; age and an academic major in finance contribute to the likelihood of attaining board directorship. Gender bears no significant influence on the corporate governance functions of company secretaries. Implications from the findings are also given.