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    Economic Espionage and Industrial Spying

     
    How to confront this undeniable netherworld.
    2/14/2005

    Thanks to technology and networks, never has it been easier nor more lucrative to indulge in illegal corporate spying. This book provides an interesting overview of modern industrial espionage, although it's offered in a historical context.

    You won't learn the tricks of tradecraft, but you will learn about its impact on society, how regulators have responded, the hidden dangers of intellectual property theft, and how both globalization and technology have accelerated corporate criminal activity.

    "As the Internet and technological advances continue to reshape the way we do business in government and industry," writes author Hedieh Nasheri, "and as competition and economic pressures create quicker and more efficient ways to do business, the reality of increased economic crimes has a serious impact."

    Of particular interest is a chapter that looks at legitimate information-gathering versus illegal spying.

    The book, which is part of the Cambridge Studies in Criminality series, is illustrated with some forty real-world examples.—Sean Silverthorne

    Table of Contents

    Ch. 1. Dimensions of economic espionage and the criminalization of trade secret theft
    Ch. 2. Transition to an information society—increasing interconnections and interdependence
    Ch. 3. International dimensions of business and commerce
    Ch. 4. Competitiveness and legal collection versus espionage and economic crime
    Ch. 5. Tensions between security and openness
    Ch. 6. The new rule for keeping secrets—the economic espionage act
    Ch. 7. Multinational conspiracy or natural evolution of market economy

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