Investigating the Role of Cultural intelligence in Promoting Competitive Intelligence

Authors
Vahid Khashei 1
Ata Harandi 2
1 Assistant Professor, Management Department, Allameh Tabataba'I University, Tehran, Iran
2 PhD Student of Business Administration, Allameh Tabataba'I University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
The Competitive Intelligence is the energy resulting from the systematic process of collection, review, and analysis of the information of environment, competitors, customers, suppliers, and market trends. It should be mentioned that Iran includes multiple subcultures. Now the major question that arises is whether we can try to promote competitive intelligence in an environment consisting of subcultures, without benefiting from cultural intelligence and compatibility with different cultures, or not? This research seeks to design a developed & organized framework in regards to the concepts of “Cultural Intelligence” and “Competitive Intelligence” in connection with each other and in Iranian knowledge based corporations; It also tries to take action towards development of borders of the knowledge available in this area. This research is of an applied type, with surveying nature. The required data has been collected through a premeditated sampling, from Iranian knowledge-based corporations, being active in Information Technology. Structural Equation method and SmartPLS software were used for data analysis. The results indicate that the Cultural Intelligence affect the Competitive Intelligence of Iranian Knowledge-Based Corporations.
Keywords
Cultural intelligence
Competitive Intelligence
Knowledge-Based Corporation
 
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Organizational Resources Management Researches
Volume 5, Issue 1
April 2015
Pages 43-60