from their family of birth, rendering the equation of adoption one of subtraction, not addition. This article examines the … biological model of adoption that insists on mimicking the nuclear family—erasing one set of parents and replacing them with … another set of parents; and explores the history of adoption “matching”—requiring the new adoptive family to look identical to …

This report presents the preliminary findings applicable to India, from a wider survey of family philanthropy in Asia …

Prior research on family involvement in family firms has generally focused on the involvement of family members. In … this study we use unique hand-collected data from Taiwanese family firms to highlight the role played by family … representatives, non-family members employed by the controlling family to represent the shareholdings of other entities within the …

The guide highlights some of the most important developments in 2010 affecting family caregivers, including legislative … and policy changes; research focused on caregivers; and media coverage of family caregiving. The majority of the report is …

The practice of adopting adults, even if one has biological children, makes Japanese family firms unusually competitive …. Our nearly population-wide panel of postwar listed nonfinancial firms shows inherited family firms more important in … outperform non-family firms. Using family structure variables as instruments, we find adopted heirs "causing" elevated …