The purpose of this study is to explore the aspects of management of competitive intelligence process in Tunisian companies. This exploratory study was conducted using semi-in-depth interviews with six executives in six companies in Tunisia. The results revealed by this study that the competitive intelligence as a competitive tool is unknown to the vast majority of Tunisian companies. It is not...

Introduction. A number of theoretical works focus on the potential revolutionary impact of the Internet and other Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) upon Competitive Intelligence, but only a few empirical research papers can be found on it. Is the real impact still unknown, or is it too insignificant to talk about? The present paper searches for the answers to this question both i...

As business decisions become more critical and the data upon which they are based becomes more readily available, the need to access information quickly and to store it in a usable system becomes paramount. In attempting to access and store the data and information, companies are using techniques like competitive intelligence and knowledge management systems. This has given rise to more investi...

The criminal justice system is a complex, knowledge intensive industry where competitive advantage is achieved by effective management and deployment of human resources. It is an industry in which formal competitive intelligence (CI) human resource management processes can make a significant impact in terms of keeping communities safe and livable by selecting police officers who are committed t...

This paper analyzes the complex characteristic of enterprise competitive intelligence system (CIS). Establishment of CIS of enterprise is an important approach to promote the research leve1 of enterprise CIS. All methods and techniques can be integrated from other science fields into CIS research through CIS. The author put up with the architecture of CIS, which includes fundamental architectur...

Competitive Intelligence is a process which involves retrieving, analyzing and packaging information to offer a final product that responds to the intelligence needs of a particular decision maker or community of decision makers. Internet-based information sources are becoming increasingly important in this process because most of the contents available on the Web are available free of charge. ...

Purpose – Little empirical research has been conducted on competitive intelligence (CI). This paper aims to contribute to the quantitative strand of the CI literature by exploring and validating the theoretical constructs of the CI process. Design/methodology/approach – Data from 601 questionnaires filled out by South African and Flemish exporters were subjected to exploratory factor analysis a...