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- With the rapid expansion and institutionalisation of information
and intelligence systems in the latter part of the twentieth
century, a huge range of complex issues have been thrown up,
which challenge both national governments as well as individuals
in their private lives. This book offers a comprehensive assessment
of their implications for us all.
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- Techno-economic intelligence, for example, has become a priority
issue for many nations in an era of open markets and global trading
- differing access to economic information and technical intelligence
can create or reinforce imbalances between developed and developing
societies. Governmental intelligence has in recent years expanded
to include not only security and military concerns, but also
information-gathering related to international trade and commerce
(commonly referred to as the 'privatisation of intelligence').
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- In the business world itself, competitor intelligence is
a rapidly emerging field of professional and academic practice,
with many of the features associated with more established information-based
professions, such as market research, investigative journalism,
and librarianship. Blaise Cronin, always one of the most stimulating
commentators on the information world, has edited here a volume
which will provide every reader with new insights.
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- ISBN 0 947568 68 9
- 1996
- £30.00/US$55.00
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- 'almost every chapter is important. This book deserves,
and needs, to be widely read.'
- Library Association Record
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- 'The increasing importance of social intelligence makes
this volume compulsory professional reading.'
- South African Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
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- 'this is a stimulating collection and one that will repay
reading by academics and practitioners alike.'
- Managing Information
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