Title :
Notice of Retraction
Using Competitive Intelligence to Improve the Capabilities of SMB Crisis Pre-warning
Author :
Zha Xianjin ; Chen Minghong
Author_Institution :
Center for Studies of Inf. Resources, Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
Notice of Retraction
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
The paper seeks to examine the relationship between competitive intelligence (CI) and crisis response of small and middle-sized business (SMB). Research showed that CI had all-right pre-warning capabilities to crisis. Based on the analyzing SMB´s crises and crisis sources, this paper proposed a SMB´s CI process of crisis pre-warning, which included many distinctive CI methods. Given the SMB´s characters, a lot of effective suggestions to enhance SMB´s pre-warning capability were put out. With the help of CI, SMB´s could reduce negative impact of emergencies or even win additional opportunities.
Keywords :
competitive intelligence; small-to-medium enterprises; SMB crisis pre-warning capability; competitive intelligence; small-middle-sized business; Competitive intelligence; Crisis management; Economic indicators; Employment; Environmental economics; Information resources; Information technology; Investments; Resource management; Risk management; competitive Intelligence; crisis pre-warning; crisis response; small and middle-sized business;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology and Applications, 2009. IFITA '09. International Forum on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3600-2
DOI :
10.1109/IFITA.2009.220
