Economic Espionage and Industrial Spying

Klappentext An analytic assessment of the changing nature of crime in the burgeoning information society. Zusammenfassung This 2005 book investigates the current state of industrial espionage! showing the far-reaching effects of advances in computing and wireless communications and provides an analytic overview and assessment of the changing nature of crime in the burgeoning information society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acronyms and abbreviations; 1. Dimensions of economic espionage and the criminalization of trade secret theft; 2. Transition to an information society - increasing interconnections and interdependence; 3. International dimensions of business and commerce; 4. Competitiveness and legal collection versus espionage and economic crime; 5. Tensions between security and openness; 6. The new rule for keeping secrets - the Economic Espionage Act; 7. Multinational conspiracy or natural evolution of market economy; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Hedieh Nasheri, Hedieh (Kent State University Nasheri
• Assisted by: Alfred Blumstein (Editor), David P. Farrington (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2004
• EAN: 9780521835824
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83582-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories