What Do Competitive Intelligence Professionals Do? : A Pilot Study

Vol.2,No.1(2010)
Competitive Intelligence

Tao Jin France Bouthillier

https://doi.org/10.5817/ProIn2010-1-5

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Jin, T., & Bouthillier, F. (2010). What Do Competitive Intelligence Professionals Do? : A Pilot Study. ProInflow, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.5817/ProIn2010-1-5
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JIN, T.; BOUTHILLIER, F. What Do Competitive Intelligence Professionals Do? : A Pilot Study. InInformation Sharing in a Fragmented World: 35th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science [online]. Montreal : McGill University, 10. - 12. 5. 2007 [cit. 2010-06-20]. Dostupné z WWW: <http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2007/jin_2007.pdf>.

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