TY - JOUR T1 - Is War a Business Paradigm? <em>A Literature Review</em> JF - The Journal of Private Equity SP - 7 LP - 12 DO - 10.3905/jpe.2005.516843 VL - 8 IS - 3 AU - Albert Madansky Y1 - 2005/05/31 UR - https://pm-research.com/content/8/3/7.abstract N2 - 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. ER -