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    Corporate Generals: The Military Metaphor of Strategy.


    Talbot, Philip A. (2003) Corporate Generals: The Military Metaphor of Strategy. Irish Journal of Management, 24 (2): 1. pp. 1-10. ISSN 1649-248X

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    Abstract

    Examines the historical military, naval and business literature to debate the soundness of the military metaphor that is inexactly accorded to modern strategy. Concept of military strategy; Strategies and their contemporary strategic equivalent according to ancient Chinese author Sun Tzu; Demonstration of the classical ideas of machine-based organisations by King Frederick the Great of Prussia, the archetypical military figure of the man-machine ideology; Timeline of military and business strategy.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Leadership; Strategic Planning; Competitive Advantage;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business
    Item ID: 20178
    Depositing User: IAM School of Business
    Date Deposited: 08 Jul 2025 11:46
    Journal or Publication Title: Irish Journal of Management
    Publisher: Irish Academy of Management
    Refereed: Yes
    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20178
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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