ISSN: 2001-015X           V O L  3 ,  N O  1  ( 2 0 1 3 )  

 

 
 

C O N T E N T S 

 

 

 

A. Fatti and A.S.A. du Toit 

Competitive Intelligence in the South African pharmaceutical industry 

pp. 5-14 

 

P. Jenster and K. Solberg Søilen
 

The relationship between Strategic Planning and Company Performance – A Chinese perspective 

pp. 15-30 

 

A. Momeni and M. Mehrafzoon 

Critical factors of Competitive Intelligence in the Power Plant Industry: The Case study of 

MAPNA Group 

pp. 31-43 

 

K. Solberg Søilen 

An overview of articles on Competitive Intelligece in JCIM and CIR 

pp. 44-58 

 

O p i n i o n  S e c t i o n  

 

Magnus Hoppe 

The intelligence worker as a knowledge activist – an alternative view on intelligence by the use of 

Burke’s pentad 

pp. 59-68 

 

 

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Founding Editors 

Prof. Henri Dou (France), Goupe ESCEM 

Prof. Per Jenster (China), NIMI 

 

Honorary Editors 

Prof. John E. Prescott (USA), University of Pittsburgh 

Prof. Bernard Dousset (France), Toulouse University 

 

Editor-in-Chief 

Dr. Klaus Solberg Søilen (Sweden), Halmstad 

University 

 

Regional Associated Editors 

 

America: 

Prof. G. Scott Erickson (USA), Ithaca College 

Europe: 

Prof. Sahbi Sidhom (France), Nancy University 

Asia: 

Prof. Xie Xinzhou (China), Beijing University 

Africa: 

Prof. Adeline Du Toit (South Africa), University of 

Johannesburg 

 

T h e  E d i t o r i a l  B o a r d :  

Dr. Mark Xu, University of Portsmouth, UK 

Dr. Subir Ranjan Das, University of Petroleum & 

Energy Studies, India 

Assistant Professor Dirk Vriens, Radboud University, 

Netherlands 

Professor Karim Baina, École nationale supérieure 

d'informatique et d'analyse des systèmes 

(ENSIAS), Morocco 

Professor Uwe Hannig, Fachhochschule 

Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany 

Dr. Klaus Solberg Søilen, Halmstad University, 

School of Business and Engineering, Sweden 

Dr. Eduardo Flores Bermudez, Bayer Schering 

Pharma AG, Germany 

Professor Kingo Mchombu, University of Namibia, 

Namibia 

Professor Adeline Du Tout, University of 

Johannesburg, South Africa 

Professor Pere Escorsa, School of Industrial 

Engineering of Terrassa, Politechnical University 

of Catalonia, Spain 

Assistant Professor Per Frankelius, Örebro University, 

Sweden 

Professor Malek Ghenima, L'Université de la 

Manouba, Tunisia 

Professor Blaise Cronin, Indiana University, United 

States 

Dr. John E. Prescott, University of Pittsburgh, United 

States 

Dr. Michael L Neugarten, The College of 

Management, Rishon LeZion, Israel 

Professor Mika Hannula, Tampere University of 

Technology, Finnland 

Professor Kamel Smaili, Université Nany 2, France 

Professor Henri Jean-Marie Dou, ATELIS 

Competitive Intelligence Work Room of the 

Groupe ESCEM, France 

Professor Bernard Dousset, Toulouse University, 

France 

Professor G. Scott Erickson, Ithaca College, United 

States 

Professor Sahbi Sidom, Université Nancy 2, France 

Professor Xinzhou Xie, Beijing Science and 

Technology Information Institute, China 

Associate Professor Jonathan Calof, Telfer School of 

Management at University of Ottawa, Canada 

Professor Per V. Jenster, Nordic International 

Management Institute, China 

Professor Alfredo Passos, Fundação Getulio Vargas, 

Brazil 

Professor Brigitte Gay, ESC-Toulouse, France 

Professor Sophie Larivet, Ecole Supérieure du 

Commerce Extérieur (ESCE), Paris, France 

 

T h e  M a n a g e r i a l  B o a r d :  

 

Way Chen, China Institute of Competitive Intelligence 

(CICI) 

Raíner E Michaeli, Director Institute for Competitive 

Intelligence GmbH, Germany 

Philippe A. Clerc, Director of CI, innovation & IT 

department at the Assembly of the French 

Chambers of Commerce and Industry, France 

Alessandro Comai, Director of Miniera SL, Project 

leader in World-Class CI Function, Spain 

Pascal Frion, Director Acrie Competitive Intelligence 

Network, France 

Hans Hedin, Vice President Business Development at 

Global Intelligence Alliance Group, Sweden 

Dr. Sofiane Saadi, Directeur Général du Laboratoire 

en Organisation et Gestion des Entreprises 

(LOGE) Algeria. Managing Director NT2S 

Consulting Inc. North Vancouver, BC, Canada 

 

 

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JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENCE STUDIES IN BUSINESS   

Halmstad, March 15 2013 

 
 

 

 

 

 

E D I T O R I A L  N O T E  V O L  3 ,  N O  1  ( 2 0 1 3 )  

 

  

We are pleased to offer another series of research articles within the area of intelligence studies in business. 

The articles represent as always a number of different approaches and problems.  

 

The article by Fatti and du Toit on competitive intelligence in the South African pharmaceutical industry 

confirms the idea that CI by now is a well-established field of interest in companies. The article goes on to 

propose a series of suggestions for how to improve the CI function for these companies. The article by 

Jenster and Solberg Søilen is a quantitative paper on the correlation between strategic planning and company 

performance for Chinese companies. The research confirms that the CI function is more important for 

company performance than the other variables and functions that were measured. The article by Momeni and 

Mehrafzoon identifies a number of key success factors for the CI function in the power plant industry in Iran. 

Seven factors are identified in the study. The article by Solberg Søilen is an overview of articles published in 

the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management and Competitive. The article shows where articles 

are from, what topics are most popular, what background authors have and to what extent they define future 

research. The article by Hoppe is about the methodological direction of intelligence studies, and is placed in 

the opinion section. By using Burk’s pentad the author brings a series of new perspectives to intelligence 

studies in general. We hope you will enjoy these quite different contributions.  

 

 

On behalf of the Editorial Board, 

 

Sincerely Yours, 

 
Dr. Klaus Solberg Søilen 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

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