Competitive intelligence is the practice of gathering, analysing, and applying information to enhance business decision-making and organisational performance
This section provides links to ethical decision-making in the field of competitive intelligence
- Ethical issues in CI - a resource page from the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP). A long list of interesting resources in this much-debated field. (Unfortunately most of the links have been deactivated.)
- Code of ethics for CI professionals
SCIP's code of ethics
- Intelligence Gathering on Gut Instinct Rather than on Knowledge Survey on ethical and legal intelligence gathering shows US-Europe cultural bias. See also Fuld & Company's 2008 global survey on competitive intelligence ethics
- 'Competitive intelligence - Law and ethics' by Jonathan Gordon-Till in Legal Information Management; vol. 4 no. 1; 2004; pp. 17-18
- 'Industrial espionage and competitive intelligence: one you do; one you do not' by Phillip C. Wright and Géraldine Roy in Journal of Workplace Learning; vol. 11 no. 2; 1999; pp. 53-59
- International Intelligence Ethics Association The following Mission statement is taken from IIEA's website: "Intelligence ethics is an emerging field without established principles for resolving the ethical problems confronting the intelligence community. Intelligence work has no theory analogous to "just war" theory in military ethics. Consequently, a focus of the International Intelligence Ethics Association (IIEA) will be to provide a forum in which a theory of "just intelligence" can be developed."
- Prospect Research and Ethics is a page on The Prospect Research Toolkit, a UK-based website for those involved in fundraising research. Although not directly related to competitive intelligence, it is interesting in that unethical methods of research carried out by some working in the field of fundraising research are akin to pretext methods which are frowned upon in formal competitive intelligence