Corporate Espionage: An Introduction

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Corporate espionage brings out the pressures of competition in the corporate sector in an age where information and knowledge are power and dictate either success or failure. This innocuous practice of obtaining competitive intelligence has given way to a highly unscrupulous trend of hiring spiesâ€”often from within the victim organizationâ€”to act as a conduit for confidential information for use as a competitive advantage in business. Here, loyal employees whose integrity one could never suspect, foreign employees who were eager to get citizenship status, IT professionals who were seemingly wedded to the idea of taking their companies forward in the IT revolution, nations which seemed favorably disposed towards each other, all seem to find the lure of money too irresistible and engage in a deplorable game of selling business secrets, defense secrets, confidential research reports, design blueprints and everything else. Given this situation, what legal redressal systems are available to victims? This highly informative and engaging book comes topped up with a selection of some of the most revealing and horrifying cases of espionage in the corporate sector.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jayshree Bose

Jayshree Bose is a first class postgraduate and National Merit Scholarship holder from Calcutta University. She has had a prolonged career in the Mumbai media circles with national financial dailies such as Business Standard and Financial Express and magazines such as Businessworld. She served there for over 16 years in senior capacities such as Associate Editor and Assistant Editor, and has been a prolific writer on topics related to banking, insurance and the economy, which are her prime areas of interest. During her tenure at Mumbai, some of her articles led to a series of financial sector reforms. She was earlier a consultant with the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), an ICICI Bank-sponsored Business School and Research Institute at Chennai. She has also written and edited books on banking and finance for KPMG and Jardine Fleming and brought out special issues of the Indian Banks' Association (IBA) Journal on a turnkey basis. Jayshree Bose is now a Faculty Member-Consulting Editor with Icfai Books, a division of the Icfai University Press, where her work involves writing articles and editing books on her special areas of interest such as banking, insurance, the economy and business strategy. She is also a regular contributor to professional magazines on insurance and banking.