Business counterintelligence as a protection strategy for SMEs

Romel Ramón González-Díaz (), Ángel Eduardo Acevedo-Duque (), Santos Lucio Guanilo-Gómez () and Elena Cachicatari Vargas ()
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Romel Ramón González-Díaz: Centro Internacional de investigación y Desarrollo, Colombia
Ángel Eduardo Acevedo-Duque: Autonomous University of Chile, Chile
Santos Lucio Guanilo-Gómez: Jorge Basadre Grohmann National University, Peru
Elena Cachicatari Vargas: Jorge Basadre Grohmann National University, Peru

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2021, vol. 8, issue 3, 340-352

Abstract: The objective of this research was to analyze the processes of business counterintelligence as a strategy to shield the SMEs from competitive intelligence services. It was framed in the convergence of research approaches given in 2 phases: quantitative phase (Likert type questionnaire applied to 385 Colombian businessmen), qualitative phase (semi-structured interview to 4 police officers with more than 25 years of experience in police counter-intelligence) and the conclusions are formulated taking into account the convergence of approaches by dimension/category. The significant findings allude to the existence of a perception on the part of the entrepreneurs about the counterintelligence systems implemented in the SMEs they manage. However, experts on the subject agree on the lack of knowledge of risk factors regarding information vulnerability and the lack of strategies to shield SMEs from competitive intelligence services.

Keywords: business counterintelligence; business intelligence services; counterintelligence strategie; Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E30 E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.9770/jesi.2021.8.3(21)

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