FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 20 -- George Mason University issued the following news release:
Likening business to war has become a cliche. This shopworn comparison glosses over the grim fact that war informs the backdrop, and backstory, of a great many companies, and their leaders.
The trauma of war has long-lasting reverberations, influencing business decisions taken decades later, argueEun Hye Jo andJenny Jung-Wha Lee, accounting professors at Costello College of Business based in George Mason University Korea.
Their recent paper inJournal of Business Research (co-authored by Laurelle (Ellie) Chapple of Queensland University of Technology) examines how early-life experience of the Korean War (1950-1953) affected CEOs' responses to business chal...