RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Is War a Business Paradigm? <em>A Literature Review</em>
JF The Journal of Private Equity
FD Institutional Investor Journals
SP 7
OP 12
DO 10.3905/jpe.2005.516843
VO 8
IS 3
A1 Albert Madansky
YR 2005
UL https://pm-research.com/content/8/3/7.abstract
AB 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.