Sun Tzu's The Art of War for business management strategic planning: resources and competitive actions

Summary form only given as follows. Under the well-known Sun Tzu's philosophy, a survey on its implementation in Hong Kong business environment was conducted. One of the main objectives is to research and assess the usefulness and influences of these philosophies and strategies in the Hong Kong business environment. The responses provide insight to both local and foreign companies in understanding the corporate strategies and behaviors for the challenges in the Asian Pacific region as well as global business competition in the next century. The business management competitive strategies based on Sun Tzu's The Art of War scored 3.6 on average which is in between the "average important" and the "very important" ranking positions. This high ranking is highly encouraging because it implies that Sun Tzu's wisdom is widely used and adopted as Chinese business management strategies. This paper presents the detailed findings of Strategy 2 "Resources and Competitive Actions" and the mean score is 3.6, which is in between the "average important" and the "very important" ranking positions.