Chinese Management Studies: Volume 3 Issue 3

Implementing Sun Tzu's Art of War, system of systems (SoS) thinking: Integrating pilot's F22 Raptor cockpit and the brain of CEO

Check Teck Foo

The purpose of this paper is to draw a metaphorical parallel between a pilot in the cockpit of the latest, ultra‐modern US fighter F22 and that of a chief executive officer (CEO…

Rites vs rights: maintaining social order in China and the West

Ken Baskin

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the generally accepted notion of Chinese “lawlessness” distorts the Chinese behavior by trying to understand it through the Western…

Influential leadership: a Harvard model vs an I‐Ching model

Yenming Zhang, Siew Kheng Catherine Chua

Badaracco of Harvard Business School suggests a “nudge‐test‐escalate” (NTE) approach in influencing and implementing change. In The Book of Changes (I‐Ching), the most archaic and…

Engineering the soul of management in the nano era

Vijay K. Arora

The purpose of this paper is to propagate a goal‐driven engineering process – an engine of invention, innovation, and growth – to be the soul of management for organizations to…

The impacts of country risk and cultural distance on transnational equity investments: Empirical evidence of Chinese enterprises' shareholdings in overseas listed companies

Xu Yuehua, Hu Songhua, Fan Xu'ang

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the influence of country risk (CR) and cultural distance (CD) on transnational equity investments. It also tries to find out the…

Reflections on East and West

Check Teck Foo

Special issue on Governance