Investigating the effect of competitive intelligence on the ethical behavior of Islamic Azad universities staff in Ardabil province

This study was done to investigate the effect of competitive intelligence on the ethical behavior of university staff. The present study is considered as an applied research in terms of purpose. The method of theoretical studies is mainly used to study the theoretical foundations of the research and to review the research background, as well as to study the studies and views that are related to the research topic. In addition, the field study method (questionnaire) is used to collect research variables by collecting questionnaire information. The variables studied in this study are competitive intelligence, ethical behavior in this study, competitive intelligence variable and its dimensions, which are knowledge of market opportunities, knowledge of competitors 'risks, knowledge of competitors' threats, knowledge of key vulnerability of the organization, hypothesis-based The title of the independent variable from Nowokah et al. (2014) and Sun and Wang (2015) and the ethical behavior variable from the research of Richmond et al. (2007) and Kim et al. (2014) have been analyzed as dependent variables. Findings show that competitive intelligence (knowledge of market opportunities, knowledge of competitors 'risks, knowledge of competitors' threats, knowledge of key university vulnerabilities and knowledge of core assumptions) affects the ethical behavior of university staff.