This paper explores how Confucianism influences the altruistic behaviour during family firm successions. Using a sample … family firms deeply influenced by Confucianism intend to take a big bath via asset write-downs in the year before the … succession. Confucianism has stronger influence on altruism when the successor have closer blood relationship with the founder …

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that … loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being primed with Confucianism, whereas Taiwanese subjects became … significantly less present-based and were inclined to be more trustworthy after being primed by Confucianism. Combining the evidence …