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In today’s business world, where competition is rapidly increasing, the obligation of to operate internationally is increasing. During these activities, communication problems may arise with the interaction of individuals with different cultural characteristics in the international field. As an effective factor in overcoming this problem, cultural intelligence has attracted the interest of management scientists in recent times. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of cultural intelligence on the entrepreneurial direction. For this purpose, data was collected by the survey method from micro-scale enterprises in the Laleli market. The scale of entrepreneurship with the scale of cultural intelligence in the survey form (Ang, Van Dyne, Koh, Ng, Templer, Thailand and Chandrasekar 2007) (Bouncken vd., 2014; Chen vd. , 2015; Hughes and Morgan, 2007) was used as an assessment tool and the hypotheses were tested with Smart-PLS 2.0. According to the research findings, supernova, motivational and behavioral cultural intelligence has found that the entrepreneurial orientation has a meaningful relationship with some of the risk-taking, innovation and proactivity dimensions. Keywords:Cultural Intelligence, Entrepreneurship Orientation, Micro-Scale Enterprises, Turkey JEL Classification: M10, L26

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In a highly competitive environment businesses interact stakeholders who come from different cultures. The interaction of individuals from different cultures can cause communication problems. In terms of overcoming communication problems caused by cultural differences, cultural intelligence is a developing field of study for management scientists. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of cultural intelligence on entrepreneurship orientation. In order to test the main hypotheses data were collected from micro scale enterprises in Laleli market by questionnaire method. Cultural intelligence scale (Ang, Van Dyne, Koh, Ng, Templer, Tay ve Chandrasekar 2007) and entreprenurial orientation scale (Bouncken vd., 2014; Chen vd., 2015; Hughes ve Morgan, 2007) were used as assesment tools of the questionaire. Hypotheses tested with Smart-PLS 2.0 programme. Tests results show that metacognitive, motivational and behavioral cultural intelligence has a significant effect on some of the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation such as risk taking, innovation and proactivity. Key Words: Cultural Intelligence, Entrepreneursip Orientation, Micro Enterprises, Turkey JEL Classification: M10, L26