People have gathered information about business competitors for as long as firms have competed against each other. This process of gathering and analyzing information for business purposes has today become known as business intelligence, also known as competitive intelligence and corporate intelligence. For the purposes of this study, the terms will be used interchangeably. Competitive intelligence can provide a significant advantage to firms which utilize it to outmaneuver their competition (Fuld, 1995 and Herring, 1992).; This study examines the Japanese and American systems for gathering business intelligence and determines the degree of correlation between the change in Japanese business intelligence gathering in the U.S. and the change in each country's market share in the electronics industry from 1956 to 1996. It was hypothesized that an organized effort between government and business to gather business intelligence in a particular industry correlates with an increase in market share in that industry. Michael E. Porter's Diamond of National Advantage Model (Porter, 1990) is used to describe the change in each country's competitive advantage in the electronics industry.; Results show a strong correlation between the existence of an organized government-industry cooperative effort to gather business intelligence and an increase in market share in a targeted industry. The assessment of the change in American national competitive advantage is used to describe the effect of a decrease in electronics production capability on the preparedness of U.S. military forces for conflict in the future. Implications for management and government, as well as suggestions for future research, are discussed in the concluding chapter.
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机译：只要公司相互竞争，人们就一直收集有关商业竞争对手的信息。今天，出于业务目的收集和分析信息的过程已被称为商业情报，也称为竞争情报和公司情报。为了本研究的目的，这些术语可以互换使用。竞争情报可以为利用情报来克服竞争的企业提供重大优势（Fuld，1995； Herring，1992）。这项研究考察了日本和美国收集商业情报的系统，并确定了从1956年到1996年日本在美国收集的商业情报的变化与每个国家在电子行业中市场份额的变化之间的相关程度。政府和企业之间为收集特定行业中的商业情报而进行的有组织的努力与该行业中市场份额的增加相关。 Michael E. Porter的“国家优势模型钻石”（Porter，1990年）用来描述每个国家在电子行业中竞争优势的变化。结果显示，存在着组织起来的政府与企业进行合作以收集商业情报的努力与目标行业的市场份额增加之间存在密切的相关性。对美国国家竞争优势变化的评估用于描述电子产品生产能力下降对美军未来冲突准备的影响。最后一章讨论了对管理和政府的影响以及对未来研究的建议。
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