Özet:

Against rapidly changing market conditions and economic developments, businesses need to exhibit more competitive, dynamic, flexible and innovative behaviors to protect them from threats, to turn opportunities in to value and thus ensure sustainability. These behaviors constitute the entrepreneurial characteristics of enterprises, today, as a general objective, enterprises are expected to be “entrepreneurial enterprises” with these qualifications. The entrepreneurial enterprises are considered as export companies active in foreign markets. The enterprises are thought to have contributed positively to the export performance of their countries. The aim of this study is to investigate the entrepreneurial characteristics of enterprises and to examine the relationship between the export performance of the country. In this direction, entrepreneurship and related concepts are drawn and entrepreneurship characteristics of enterprises are presented with qualitative evaluations. The entrepreneurial characteristicst are subject to evaluation by years as actual data and values were put to correlation and regression analysis between realized export performance of Turkey, and the relationship between them and their effect levels were measured.