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The Corporate CIA—A Prediction of Things to Come
- Source :
- Management Science. 12:B-489
- Publication Year :
- 1966
- Publisher :
- Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 1966.
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Abstract
- This paper presents the case that there will soon be a confluence of the technical capability, manpower and motivation for corporations to know their competitors much better than they do now. An argument is given that a recognized new corporate activity will develop whose mission will be to study competitors with a view to finding weaknesses which can be capitalized upon. A likely consequence of this development will be the growth of covert activities of a kind which are at least distasteful, are probably immoral and possibly are illegal. If the development of corporate CIA's takes place there will be a new and fascinating arena for analytic skills, but the practitioner will be faced with some very demanding questions of what shall constitute moral behavior.
Details
- ISSN :
- 15265501 and 00251909
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Management Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4da0b53428f4641c36729018b6c1b7fe