University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 30, 1988
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Business students' 'spying' spurs West Virginia school to establish ethics committee
The announcement, made by Frank Franz, vice president for academic affairs, comes one week after the Wall Street Journal reported that graduate students in the program had received and inventory figures gained in a study to competitors of the businesses they surveyed.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University administrators set up a committee yesterday to explore the ethical obligations of students who do "corporate espionage" for companies under the auspices of the university.
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"The article points out that the confidentiality of respondents was promised but not observed," Franz said.
"The key problem is that the students were put in a very unfortunate position by the sponsors of the project, and I think inappropriate things were asked of them."
Franz said the seven-member committee would consider whether students should be required to disclose routinely the sponsor of a study, its purpose and the recipient of the information obtained.
He said the committee also would suggest ways to avoid conflicts of interest in internships, research projects and other opportunities that arose through consulting performed by faculty members for private companies.
The Journal reported that two groups of students who conducted competitive analyses for two Caterpillar heavy-equipment dealers were asked by the dealers to identify the competitors they interviewed.
competitive play. Several students said they did. One of those involved likened the work to spying.
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