The change of governance model in the succession of family firms will have an important impact on firm performance. Based on the widespread altruism and conflicts in family firms, this paper proposes a theoretical model to explain the relationship among succession, corporate governance reform...

Propping acts by controlling shareholders are common in Chinese listed firms. In this paper, we use data on related-party transactions of all listed Chinese firms from 2002 to 2008 to investigate the motivation behind controlling shareholders' propping acts and subsequent wealth-transfer...

The aim of this paper is theory development of R&D theory and Quality of Government theory in family business through researching on Chinese listed industrial family firm (FF) to find out: firstly, how FF governance influence on R&D intensity through making a distinction from two dimensions of...