Abstract Industrial Espionage (IE) is an umbrella term covering a complicated range of activities performed to gain competitive advantages, resulting in a huge amount of financial loss annually. Currently, techniques generated by rapid developments of Internet of Things (IOTs) and Data Science are enabling a massive increase of both frequency and power of IE related activities in our increasingly challenging global commercial environment. Thus, an in-depth understanding of IE is necessary. In this paper, we report a comprehensive Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of current English literature on IE. Particularly, we systematically: i) identify key features of IE by analysing its current definitions, and coin our own working definition; ii) discuss the current state of research on IE from different academic disciplines; iii) highlight some key challenges in the current state of research on IE; and iv) identify some possible trends in its future development. Further, based on our findings, we call for more multi-disciplinary/multi-agency research on IE in order to construct a comprehensive framework to combat IE.

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工业间谍 - 系统文献综述 (SLR)

摘要 工业间谍 (IE) 是一个总称，涵盖了为获得竞争优势而进行的一系列复杂活动，每年都会导致巨额经济损失。目前，物联网 (IOT) 和数据科学的快速发展所产生的技术正在我们日益具有挑战性的全球商业环境中大幅增加 IE 相关活动的频率和功率。因此，深入了解IE是必要的。在本文中，我们报告了当前关于 IE 的英文文献的综合系统文献综述 (SLR)。特别是，我们系统地：i) 通过分析 IE 的当前定义来识别 IE 的关键特征，并创造我们自己的工作定义；ii) 讨论不同学科对 IE 的研究现状；iii) 强调当前 IE 研究中的一些关键挑战；iv) 确定其未来发展的一些可能趋势。此外，根据我们的发现，我们呼吁对 IE 进行更多多学科/多机构研究，以构建一个全面的框架来打击 IE。