Investigating the effect of entrepreneurial intensity on creating competitiveness capabilities and export performance

The objective of this study was investigation of the entrepreneurial intensity and strategic orientation role in creating competitiveness capabilities and export performance. The present research is an applied and quantitative survey that was done in a Cross sectional method. The population of this study include 1900 staff of Ilam petrochemical company that a sample of 372 members of them was selected among them by simple-random method and without replacement. Data gathering tool in this research was standard questionnaire that its validity and reliability were evaluated and confirmed. In order to data analysis the structural equations based on the minor least squares was used and was performed by PLS smart software. The obtained results indicate that the entrepreneurial intensity has a significant effect on the strategic orientation, competitiveness capabilities and export performance. Also the finding confirm this fact that the strategic orientation has a significant effect on the competitiveness capabilities and export performance. Also they showed that the competitiveness capabilities has an significant effect on the export performance.