Instructions: For the 18 competitive intelligence activities listed below, indicate the team's consensus on whether each activity is ethical (E) or unethical (U), legal (L) or illegal (I).Circle your choices. Then write one sentence below each choice to offer support for the team's answer.

1.Buying competitors' garbage.E / UL / I

2.Dissecting competitors' products.E / UL / I

3.Taking competitors' plant tours anonymously.E / UL / I

4.Counting tractor-trailer trucks leaving competitors' loading bays.E / UL / I

5.Study aerial photographs of competitors' facilities.E / UL / I

6.Analyzing competitors' labor contracts.E / UL / I

7.Analyzing competitors' help wanted ads.E / UL / I

8.Quizzing customers and buyers about the sales of competitors' products. E / UL / I

9.Infiltrating customers' and competitors' business operations.E / UL / I

10.Quizzing suppliers about competitors' level of manufacturing.E / UL / I

11.Using customers to buy out phony bids.E / UL / I

12.Encouraging key customers to reveal competitive information.E / UL / I

13.Quizzing competitors' former employees.E / UL / I

14.Interviewing consultants who may have worked with competitors.E / UL / I

15.Hiring key managers away from competitors.E / UL / I

16.Conducting phony job interviews to get competitors' employees to reveal information.

E / UL / I

17.Sending engineers to trade meetings to quiz competitors' technical employees.E / UL / I

18.Quizzing potential employees who worked for or with competitors.E / UL / I