Abstract
Businesses resort to many means for securing information about their competitors. The process is necessary and desirable, but some of the means are less so. If competitive intelligence sytems were better coordinated, executives might have less cause to stray beyond legal and ethical boundaries in their intelligence activities. This article, which summarizes a more lengthy report, 1 first appeared in somewhat different form in THE EXECUTIVE, III (September, 1959), pp. 3-6.
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