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What Competitive Intelligence Problems Exist in Offshore Service Outsourcing Enterprises in Beijing When They Develop International Markets and How to Resolve Them

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Oriented to the needs in that government administration of offshore service outsourcing industry of Beijing City make strategic decisions for getting international competitive advantage against foreign competitors, focusing on competitive intelligence (CI) problems when offshore service outsourcing enterprises in Beijing develop international markets, four kinds of methods are conducted. The first is interviewing with the government administration of offshore service outsourcing industry of Beijing City- Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, the second is interviewing with association of offshore service outsourcing industry of Beijing-Beijing Association of Sourcing Service (BASS), the third is interviewing with a typical leading enterprise in offshore service outsourcing industry of Beijing, and the fourth is desk research. After investigation and research, four major generic CI problems are found out, and four kinds of countermeasure are given.

This paper is supported by a grant to Dr. CHEN Feng that title is “Studies on Essentials of Theory & Methodology of Industry Competitive Intelligence” from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.70973119).

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Feng, C. (2011). What Competitive Intelligence Problems Exist in Offshore Service Outsourcing Enterprises in Beijing When They Develop International Markets and How to Resolve Them. In: Zeng, D. (eds) Applied Informatics and Communication. ICAIC 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 225. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23220-6_3

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