A note to the reader
This issue draws from listed companies, households, experiments and other adjacent settings. It is not a collection of 100 studies directly sampling family offices. Use the evidence to sharpen questions; check each paper’s population, methods and limitations before applying it. Each source has its own passage agent. Original findings remain distinct from the editorial practice articles elsewhere in the journal.
1–12 of 30 articles · Governance & investment discipline
01Governance & investment discipline · Research source
Chaoyang Zhang
PLOS ONE · 2024-12-05 · CC BY 4.0
Which governance safeguards remain effective when policy uncertainty changes the operating environment?
02Governance & investment discipline · Research source
Muhammad Arslan Iqbal; Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar; Majed Alharthi; Md Jahid Ebn Jalal; Md Naimur Rahman
PLOS One · 2025-06-03 · CC BY 4.0
Can the investment team distinguish integrated-reporting quality from an assumed financing benefit?
03Governance & investment discipline · Research source
Ayalew Ali; Bayelign Abebe
PLOS ONE · 2024-05-14 · CC BY 4.0
How do cooperative ownership and balance-sheet constraints change financing decisions?
04Governance & investment discipline · Research source
Chia-Hsien Tang; Feifei Luo
PLOS One · 2026-03-18 · CC BY 4.0
How should a valuation memo separate ESG disclosure quality from exposure to policy uncertainty?
05Governance & investment discipline · Research source
Tribhuwan Kumar Bhatt; Wenli Wang; Xinghua Dang; Shahina Qurban Jan
PLOS ONE · 2024-06-13 · CC BY 4.0
Which bank governance and capital-adequacy indicators need independent verification in counterparty diligence?
06Governance & investment discipline · Research source
Yuanbo Hu; Ruiyuan Cong; Ran Teng; Baolong Ji
PLOS One · 2025-11-25 · CC BY 4.0
What external scrutiny tests whether executive incentives support productive innovation?
07Governance & investment discipline · Research source
Zhibin Zhang; Lishu Zhang; Aihua Xiong
PLOS ONE · 2024-05-02 · CC BY 4.0
Do minority owners have effective influence over board decisions or only formal representation?
08Governance & investment discipline · Research source
Han Sun
PLOS ONE · 2023-11-30 · CC BY 4.0
How does ownership concentration affect the reliability of reported accounts?
09Governance & investment discipline · Research source
Xiaofei Shi; Yuanhao Shen; Yuanfang Wang; Jinlong Han
PLOS One · 2025-06-11 · CC BY 4.0
What can analyst scrutiny reveal about a company’s tax behavior, and what remains unobserved?
10Governance & investment discipline · Research source
Kanghong Li; Xiuying Wang; Yongqi Luo; Zixiao Li
PLOS One · 2026-02-02 · CC BY 4.0
Can a minority shareholder translate board influence into accountable innovation spending?
11Governance & investment discipline · Research source
Hangbo Liu; Xuemeng Guo; Dachen Sheng
PLOS One · 2025-07-11 · CC BY 4.0
Do analyst visits change managerial risk-taking in ways the owner can monitor?
12Governance & investment discipline · Research source
Siyuan Yu; Ming Tian
PLOS ONE · 2024-10-03 · CC BY 4.0
Are uneven social-responsibility commitments concealing exposures relevant to crash-risk diligence?