Volume 2 · Issue 1 · 2026
Governance, succession and the decisions that keep responsibility visible.
A note to the reader
Read original research alongside separately attributed practical companions. Source findings and proposed practices are different kinds of evidence; every article retains its original attribution and publication date.
Contents
13–24 of 47 articles
Governance & succession · Research source
Andreas Raff; Robert Böhm; Christoph Fuchs
PLOS ONE · 2025-09-08 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent philanthropy research: randomized donation-incentive design for research participation, relevant to family-foundation evaluation and grantee engagement; no family offices studied.
Governance & succession · Research source
Yanbo Liu; Hanzhou Liu; Decai Tang; Chenxi Yin; Lin Kong
PLOS ONE · 2025-07-24 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent research on listed Chinese family businesses, ownership succession and short-term bank financing; not directly studied family offices.
Governance & succession · Research source
Tsu-Cheng Chou; Hsi-Peng Lu
PLOS ONE · 2022-04-21 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for family-office governance or philanthropy; original study population and measures are described in the companion. No direct family-office sample is claimed.
Governance & succession · Research source
Khoa Dang Duong; Hanh Thi Hong Nguyen; Phuc Huu Truong; Hoa Thanh Phan Le
PLOS ONE · 2024-07-19 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for family-office governance or philanthropy; original study population and measures are described in the companion. No direct family-office sample is claimed.
Governance & succession · Research source
Yujia Shao; Dechun Huang; Lelin Lv; Jie Yu
PLOS ONE · 2021-10-08 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for family-office governance or philanthropy; original study population and measures are described in the companion. No direct family-office sample is claimed.
Governance & succession · Research source
Stephan Dickert; Janet Kleber; Daniel Västfjäll; Paul Slovic
PLOS ONE · 2016-02-09 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for family-office governance or philanthropy; original study population and measures are described in the companion. No direct family-office sample is claimed.
Governance & succession · Research source
Leily Farrokhvar; Azadeh Ansari; Behrooz Kamali
PLOS ONE · 2018-10-03 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for family-office governance or philanthropy; original study population and measures are described in the companion. No direct family-office sample is claimed.
Governance & succession · Research source
Hajdi Moche; Hulda Karlsson; Daniel Västfjäll
PLOS ONE · 2024-03-28 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent evidence for family-office governance or philanthropy; original study population and measures are described in the companion. No direct family-office sample is claimed.
Governance & succession · Research source
Kai Zhang; Bin Cao; Ya Zhang; Yawen Han
PLOS ONE · 2023-05-17 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent philanthropy and resource-allocation research relevant to family-office governance; no family offices directly studied.
Governance & succession · Research source
Katherine M. White; Louise C. Starfelt Sutton; Xiang Zhao
PLOS ONE · 2023-05-19 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent philanthropy and resource-allocation research relevant to family-office governance; no family offices directly studied.
Governance & succession · Research source
Hongpeng Wang
PLOS ONE · 2022-12-29 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent philanthropy and resource-allocation research relevant to family-office governance; no family offices directly studied.
Governance & succession · Research source
Stephan Müller; Holger A. Rau
PLOS ONE · 2019-05-22 · CC BY 4.0
Adjacent philanthropy and resource-allocation research relevant to family-office governance; no family offices directly studied.