Which One of the Following Statements Is True of Competitive

question 89

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following statements is true of competitive intelligence as a means of environmental scanning?

• A) The Competitive Espionage Act makes it a crime in the United States to engage in competitive intelligence.
• B) It is unethical to use competitive intelligence to make strategic business decisions.
• C) Competitive intelligence is ethical if competitor-related information is collected from sources accessible and available to the public.
• D) Buying competitors' products and asking their own employees to evaluate them to learn about new technical innovations is an example of the unethical practices followed in competitive intelligence.

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Definitions:

Valid

An argument whose structure guarantees its conclusion to be true if its premises are true.

Proposition

A verbalization or pronouncement that indicates an appraisal or conviction.

Categorical

Pertaining to, involving, or based on the categorization of something, often used in logic to describe propositions where statements are made about all members of a category.

Validity

The characteristic of being based on valid logic or actual evidence; in the realm of logic, it pertains to the situation where the premises naturally lead to the conclusion.