Editor-in-chief: Klaus Solberg Søilen Included in this printed copy: Social competitive intelligence: socio-technical themes and values for the networking organization Lars Degerstedt pp. 5-34 A place for intelligence studies as a scientific discipline Klaus Solberg Søilen pp. 35-46 Intelligence as a discipline, not just a practice Magnus Hoppe pp. 47-56 Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business V ol 5 , N o 3 , 2 0 1 5 J ou rn a l of In telligen ce S tu d ies in B u sin ess ISSN: 2001-015X Vol. 5, No. 3 2015 The Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business (JISIB) is a double-blind peer reviewed, open access journal published by Halmstad University, Sweden. Its mission is to help facilitate and publish original research, conference proceedings and book reviews. FOCUS AND SCOPE The journal includes articles within areas such as Competitive Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Market Intelligence, Scientific and Technical Intelligence and Geo-economics. 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All rights reserved. EDITOR’S NOTE VOL 5, NO 3 (2015) A review of Competitive Intelligence as a discipline This is a special issue of JISIB where the discipline is allowed to reflect on itself. Included are three articles that aim to take a new, critical look at the discipline of Competitive Intelligence and its equivalents in other cultures. Degerstedt rethinks the whole discipline of CI and IS, as seen from a larger sociological and technical perspective, which in many ways resembles ideas of Social Intelligence introduced by Stevan Dedijer. Solberg Søilen bases his reflections about the scientific standing of intelligence in business around a survey with two questions: What is unique for CI and IS as disciplines and what analyses are unique for CI and IS? The article by Hoppe was presented at the ECIS conference in Stockholm in 2009 and was submitted to the new journal of JISIB in 2011. The article is a call for a new research agenda for the study of intelligence in business. The author wants to move away from a narrow perspective on practice to pursue a broader understanding of intelligence as a discipline. Finally, as always, we would first of like to thank the authors for their contributions to this issue of JISIB. On behalf of the Editorial Board, Sincerely Yours, Prof. Dr. Klaus Solberg Søilen Halmstad University, Sweden Editor-in-chief Copyright © 2015 JISIB, Halmstad University. All rights reserved. Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business Vol. 5, No 3 (2015) pp. 4 Open Access: Freely available at: https://ojs.hh.se/ Journal Cover Vol 5 No 3 Page 2 to 4