%0 Journal Article %A Albert Madansky %T Is War a Business Paradigm? A Literature Review %D 2005 %R 10.3905/jpe.2005.516843 %J The Journal of Private Equity %P 7-12 %V 8 %N 3 %X The shelves of bookstore business sections are filled with of books in which military leaders are role models for business leadership and strategy. Looking beyond books featuring war as a paradigm for business, one finds books which offer up game theory, both of the zero-sum and of the cooperative variety, as paradigms for business strategy. This article provides a review of this literature and concludes that, if indeed the theory of cooperative games is a proper paradigm for business, then the military leader is not the appropriate role model. %U https://jpe.pm-research.com/content/iijpriveq/8/3/7.full.pdf