Open AccessOWNERSHIP STRUCTURES AND DIVIDEND POLICY IN MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN INDONESIA
Author(s) -
Ida Setya Dwi Jayanti,
Ayu Febriyanti Puspitasari
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
tijab (the international journal of applied business)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2599-0705
DOI - 10.20473/tijab.v1.i1.2017.1-13
Subject(s) - dividend policy , stock exchange , dividend , foreign ownership , business , nonprobability sampling , free cash flow , sample (material) , control variable , accounting , population , monetary economics , economics , finance , foreign direct investment , statistics , macroeconomics , chemistry , demography , mathematics , chromatography , sociology
This study aims at examining the influence of ownership structure on dividendpolicy. The population is all of manufacturing companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period 2008–2012. Purposive sampling is used to choose the sample and 81 companies are found to be sample. The study uses multiple linear regression. The result shows that managerial ownership, institutional ownership, foreign ownership, ownership concentration, and the control variable free cash flow simultaneously have significant influence on dividend policy. Influence testing partially by the level of significant of 5% shows that managerial ownership has positive and significant influence on dividend policy, institutional ownership has insignificant influence on dividend policy, foreign ownership has insignificant influence on dividend policy, ownership concentration has positive and significant influence on dividend policy, and the control variable free cash flow has positive and significant influence on dividend policy.