The results of a survey appraising the frequency and perceived helpfulness of competitor-focused accounting (CFA) practices are reported. Given the limited attention a€orded the subject in the management accounting literature, CFA usage has been found to be higher than what might have been reasonably anticipated. Three factors have been found to play statistically signi®cant contingent roles in...

Competitor identification tries to find competitors of some entity in a given field, which is the key to the success of market intelligence. Manually collecting competitors is labor-intensive and time consuming. So automatic approaches are proposed for this purpose. However, these approaches suffer from the following two main challenges. Competitor information might not only be contained in sem...

The aim of this paper is to output a critical book review of Market Intelligence: Building Strategic Insight by Jenster & Søilen (2009). The purpose of the book is to provide helpful and practical information about market intelligence and analysis for real life situations for managers. The book reviewed is conducted by using systematic review for gathering information in the field of market int...

Web has been one of major information sources for enterprises to acquire competitive intelligence. However, traditional approaches focus on collecting Web pages and fail to generate practical competitive intelligence from Web pages. Another problem in the research on Web-based competitive intelligence is that Web pages may contain a lot of incredible information which will have big influence on...

Knowledge about market developments and competitor activities on the market becomes more and more a critical success factor for enterprises. The World Wide Web provides public domain information which can be retrieved for example from Web sites or online shops. The extraction from semi-structured information sources is mostly done manually and is therefore very time consuming. This paper descri...

IMPACT The Lixto Price Intelligence Suite is a solution that extracts price-comparison information from competitor online web channels and combines it with internal data sources so organizations gain greater visibility into the factors that might influence price. The suite works by navigating and extracting competitive product and pricing information from predefined online data sources before s...