Investigating the Role of Cultural intelligence in Promoting Competitive Intelligence

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? The current 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; this research 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 data required for this Research has been collected through a random sampling، from Iranian knowledge-based corporations، being active in Information Technology. Meanwhile، the method and software which were used for data analysis named “Structural Equation” and “Smart PLS”، respectively. The results indicate that the Cultural Intelligence affect the Competitive Intelligence of Iranian Knowledge-Based Corporations.