Contemporary Finance & Economics ›› 2022, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (6): 75-88.

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The Application of Mohist Thought in Business Management: The Governance of“Universal Love”of China’s Enterprises in the Global Economic Integration

ZHANG Chi1,2, LIU Tai-gang1   

  1. 1. Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872;
    2. Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi 830052, China
  • Received:2021-10-10 Revised:2022-02-22 Online:2022-06-15 Published:2022-09-09

Abstract: The trend of global economic integration has brought more opportunities and challenges to Chinese enterprises. The core value concept and the ultimate value have become one of the factors for enterprises to gain a foothold in the global market. According to the logical structure of“ethical interpretation-value construction-theoretical practice”, this article elaborates the economic ethics, rule and order, and cognition and response in the real applications of enterprises with Mohist theory. The Mohist school takes the“universal love”as its core and establishes the value of treating righteousness and profitableness in the same way, so that it can take“profiting the world”as its purpose to dialectically explore the unity of opposites between private interests and public interests on the basis of adapting to the original profit-seeking motives of enterprises. Then the business managers can fulfill their social responsibilities on the basis of satisfying their private interests. Taking the Mohist“Ten Theory”as a reference, enterprises follow the internal laws of the market in terms of personnel systems, market strategies, and crisis response, so as to achieve sustainable and healthy development of the enterprises. In dealing with specific issues, the Mohist’s thinking mode of“grasping both the same and different sides of things unbiasedly at the same time”can help enterprises to look at things objectively and comprehensively in the increasingly complex and uncertain market environment. From the perspective of management science, there are also new interpretations of Mohist allusions, which form a theoretical logic and risk perception that are different from Western management science, so that business management has a more flexible and pragmatic approach to handle specific matters.

Key words: busines management, Mohist philosophical thought, concept of righteousness and profitableness, rules and order, cognition and response

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