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How to Approach the Ancient Chinese Wisdom? A Commentary Concerning Sun Tzu's The Art of War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2017

Peter Ping Li  and
Monsol Yang
Peter Ping Li
Affiliation:
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Monsol Yang
Affiliation:
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
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The central theme of this commentary is that The Art of War is not only highly useful for Chinese business historically in particular, but also universally relevant for global business (including Chinese business as an integral part) in general at the present time and also in the future. We will discuss three issues to elaborate the above central theme: (1) the essence of The Art of War, (2) its historical relevance, and (3) its modern and global implications.

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Dialogue, Debate, and Discussion
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Management and Organization Review , Volume 13 , Issue 4: Special Issue Celebrating and Advancing the Scholarship of Kwok Leung (1958–2015) , December 2017 , pp. 913 - 920
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Copyright © The International Association for Chinese Management Research 2017 

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