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This exercise gives you an opportunity to discuss in class ethical ethical and and legal legal issues related to

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methods being used by many companies to spy on competi c ompeting ng firms. firms. Gathering Gathering and using information about competitors is an area of strategic manag management ement that Japanese Japanese firms do more proficiently than U.S. firms.

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Instructions On a separate sheet of paper, number from 1 to 18. For the 18 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  for ethical or

U  for  for

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unethical, and either an L for legal or an I   for for illegal for each

activity. Compare your answers to those of your classmates and discuss any differences. 1. Buying competitors’ garbage 2. Dissecting competitors’ products 3. Taking competitors’ plant tours anonymously

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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 buy out phony bids 12.Encouraging key customers to reveal competitive information 13.Quizzing competitors’ former employees 14. Interviewing consultants 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 employees who worked for or with competitors

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The following are the listed activities with appropriate Legal/ Illegal and Ethical/ Unethical status:

Buying competitor's garbage

Dissecting competitor's products

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Unethical/

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Legal

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Taking competitor's plant tours anonymously

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E-

Counting tractor-trailer trucks leaving competitors loading bays

L

Studying aerial photographs of competitors facilities

U-I

E-

 Analyzing competitors labor contracts contracts

L

E-

 Analyzing competitors help-wanted help-wanted ads

L

Quizzing Quiz zing custom customers ers and and buyers buyers about the sales sales of competi competitors tors produc products ts

E-I

Infiltrating customers and competitors business operations

U-I

Quizzing suppliers about compet ititors level of manuf ac acturing

E- I

Ethical / Legal

Ethical / Legal

Unethical/ Illegal

Ethical / Legal

Ethical / Legal

Ethical / Illegal

Unethical/ Illegal

Ethical / Illegal

Using customers to buy out phony bids

U-I

Encouraging key customers to reveal competitive information

Unethical/

L

Legal

L

E-

Interviewing consultants who may have worked with competitors

L

E-

Hiring key managers away from competitors

L

Conducting phony job interviews to get competitors employees to reveal information

U-I

Sending engineers to trade meetings to quiz competitors technical

E-

employees

L

E-

Quizzing potential employees who worked for or with competitors

L

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Quizzing competitors former employees

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Ethical / Legal

Ethical / Legal

Ethical / Legal

Unethical/ Legal

Ethical / Legal

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