PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Albert Madansky
TI  - Is War a Business Paradigm? <em>A Literature Review</em>
AID  - 10.3905/jpe.2005.516843
DP  - 2005 May 31
TA  - The Journal of Private Equity
PG  - 7--12
VI  - 8
IP  - 3
4099  - https://pm-research.com/content/8/3/7.short
4100  - https://pm-research.com/content/8/3/7.full
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.