Based on feedback from its members, the authors of a new report from the Institute of Business Ethics, entitled, 'Competitive Intelligence Gathering: Ethical challenges and good practice', will be presenting the report's main findings and general conclusions. The Institute of Business Ethics has kindly opened up the report's launch event to colleagues of SCIP.
Generating and using competitive intelligence (CI) is a key strategic activity in today's highly competitive knowledge economy. However, the practice of CI is potentially an ethical and legal minefield.
What are the ethical challenges? What can organisations do to ensure that their CI practice is in line with their ethical standards?
This new report from the IBE sets out the drivers for these challenges and examines good practice in managing them. Based on in-depth interviews with experts from a range of industries, Competitive Intelligence Gathering identifies the ethical problems that typically confront firms and other organisations engaged in CI gathering in the UK.
Attendees will be able to benefit from understanding
- The ethical challenges
- Guidelines to ensure CI ethics are in line with corporate ethical guidelines
- Good practice in managing programmes and a copy of the report
About the Presenters
Andrew Crane Dr Laura Spence
Professor of Business Ethics Director of Centre of Research
Schulich School of Business Royal Holloway
York University Toronto University of London
Andrew Crane is the George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics and Director of the Erivan K. Haub Program in Business and Sustainability at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada. Over the past decade he has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate responsible management issues into business school research and curricula, co-authoring Europe’s market leading textbook on business ethics and co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility. He was the founding Director of the UK's first MBA in CSR, and has taught business ethics to undergraduates, masters students, PhD students and executives.
Dr. Laura Spence is the Section Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics focusing on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. She is now the Director of the Centre for Research into Sustainability at the Royal Holloway, University of London and she was responsible for much of the primary research behind the report undertaken in the UK.
