Considering Ethical and legal issues related to methods being used by many compa

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Considering Ethical and legal issues related to methods being used by many companies to spy on competing firms. Gathering and using information about competitors is an area of strategic management that Japanese firms do more proficiently than American firms.

For the I8 Spying activities listed as follows. indicate whether or not you believe the activity is ethical or unethical and legal or illegal. Place either an E for ethical or U for' unethical. and either an L for legal or an I for illegal for each activity.

1. Buying competitors' garbage

2. Dissecting competitors' products

3. Taking competitors' plant tours anonymously

4. Counting tractor-trailer trucks leaving competitors' loading bays

5. Studying aerial photographs of competitors' facilities

6. Analyzing competitors' labor contracts

7. Analyzing competitors' help-wanted ads

8. Quizzing customers and buyers about the sales of competitors' products

9. Infiltrating customers' and competitors' business operations

10. Quizzing suppliers about competitors' level of manufacturing

11. Using customers to buyout phony bids

12. Encouraging key customers to reveal competitive information

13. Quizzing competitors' former employees

14. Interviewing consultant who may have worked with competitors

15. Hiring key managers away from competitors

16. Conducting phony job interviews to get competitors' employees to reveal information

17. Sending engineers to trade meetings to quiz competitors' technical employees

18.   Quizzing potential employee: who worked for or with competitors

Explanation / Answer

1. Buying competitors' garbage / U - L

2. Dissecting competitors' products / E - L

3. Taking competitors' plant tours anonymously / E - L

4. Counting tractor-trailer trucks leaving competitors' loading bays / E - L

5. Studying aerial photographs of competitors' facilities / U - I

6. Analyzing competitors' labor contracts / E - L

7. Analyzing competitors' help-wanted ads / E - L

8. Quizzing customers and buyers about the sales of competitors' products / E - I

9. Infiltrating customers' and competitors' business operations / U - I

10. Quizzing suppliers about competitors' level of manufacturing / E - I

11. Using customers to buyout phony bids / U - I

12. Encouraging key customers to reveal competitive information / U - L

13. Quizzing competitors' former employees / E - L

14. Interviewing consultant who may have worked with competitors / E - L

15. Hiring key managers away from competitors / E - L

16. Conducting phony job interviews to get competitors' employees to reveal information / U - I

17. Sending engineers to trade meetings to quiz competitors' technical employees / E - L

18.   Quizzing potential employee: who worked for or with competitors / E - L

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