Purpose: This article examines the influence of Daoist nothingness on leadership in growing Chinese small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Daoism is based on a “letting-go” approach through maintaining inherent openness, which challenges goal-oriented and hierarchical approaches typical of...

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Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in the International small business journal, published by and copyright Sage Publications Ltd.