Screening Model in Enterprise Competitive Intelligence Activity

Abstract:

The paper researched the screening model in enterprise competitive intelligence activity based on game theory. It studied the service provider’s decision in competitive intelligence(CI) project and proved it could be satisfied with Bayesian Nash equilibrium. It also revealed the heterogeneity between the service providers through a signaling game model in which signal set was the combine of CI quality standard term. The result shows that a quality standard about CI should be designed in contract which provides a signal for service provider to self-certify its own true type and is in favor of screening for enterprise.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 121-122)
• Pages: 360-363
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.121-122.360
• Online since: June 2010
• Authors: Hai Dong Yu, Fang Liu, Yun Feng Luo
• Keywords: Competitive Intelligence, Game with Incomplete Information, Mechanism Design

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