An Experimental Discussion on the Shaping of Confucian Business Spirit by The Great Learning

Abstract

This paper argues that the great learning contains profound management wisdom, and under the influence of this wisdom, the
unique management characteristics of Confucian businessmen are formed, that is, self-management of cultivation and prudence and affectionate team management. Finally, it focuses on the contemporary value of Confucian business spirit, which is mainly reflected in the construction of the framework of “heaven and earth, group and self”, i.e., balancing the three benefits (economic, social and ecological benefits),
handling the three relationships (the relationship between the pursuit of economic benefits and the regulation of business activities, the relationship between the utilization of natural resources and the protection of natural resources, and the relationship between the entrepreneur’s
own ecological construction and the construction of the natural ecological construction), and attaining a realm (“stopping at the highest goodness”, as mentioned in the book of “The Great Learning”).