University of Kentucky Industrial Espionage Discussion

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1) Using an Internet search engine, search for “strategic alliance” and identify a recently formed alliance. What is the goal of this alliance? What brought them together? Discuss how you think a strategic alliance is or is not an effective way for these organizations to meet their goals.

(must be in 400-500 words)


2) Consider this hypothetical situation:

David Doe is a network administrator for the ABC Company. David is passed over for promotion three times. He is quite vocal in his dissatisfaction with this situation. In fact, he begins to express negative opinions about the organization in general. Eventually, David quits and begins his own consulting business. Six months after David’s departure, it is discovered that a good deal of the ABC Company’s research has suddenly been duplicated by a competitor. Executives at ABC suspect that David Doe has done some consulting work for this competitor and may have passed on sensitive data. However, in the interim since David left, his computer has been formatted and reassigned to another person. ABC has no evidence that David Doe did anything wrong.

What steps might have been taken to detect David’s alleged industrial espionage?

What steps might have been taken to prevent his perpetrating such an offense?

(must be in 400-500 words)


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Running head: INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE

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Industrial Espionage
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INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE

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Industrial Espionage

Question #2
Industrial espionage is an illegal form of acquiring business intelligence and information
about the competitor’s products and services with the ultimate objective of getting a leg up in the
scramble for the market share. It is an unethical strategy where a business partner trades secrets
with a rival company with a view of achieving a competitive advantage. It may include
acquisitions of manufacturing ideas, techniques, and formulas of another company through
wiretapping the competitors or hacking their websites using malware (Androulidakis &
Kioupakis, 2016). In the case study above, David Doe, a former employee of the ABC Company,
allegedly committed industrial espionage by leaking a good deal of ABC Business’s exploration
information where a competitor duplicated it.
ABC Company might have taken the following steps to detect the alleged economic
spying. The organization could have paid attention to the negative opinions of David Doe
concerning the organization. Admittedly, David had become a disgruntled employee because he
was dissatisf...


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