| The purposes of this thesis are to (1) theoretically integrate the concept of competitive intelligence (CI) with the security management practice of risk assessment, and (2) to estimate the validity and reliability of a measure of ethical boundaries for CI gathering. In addition, this study tests the prediction of perceptions of ethics from several organizational variables, including tenure in the (a) CI field, (b) job position, (c) organization, and organization size and region.; The results revealed the validity and reliability of the CI measure of ethical boundaries, and ethical perceptions were predicted from five variables: tenure (in the organization, the job position, and the CI field), organization size, and region. |
