01818nas a2200145   4500008004100000245006600041210006400107260000900171520132700180653001201507653001701519100001801536700001501554856010301569       2016                        eng d00aBusiness Cultural Intelligence Quotient: A Five-Country Study0 aBusiness Cultural Intelligence Quotient A FiveCountry Study  c20163 aCultural intelligence (CI) has often been linked to performance at the individual, team and firm levels as a key factor in international business success. Using a new measure of CI, the business cultural intelligence quotient (BCIQ), our study provides empirical evidence on several key antecedents of CI using data onbusiness professionals across five diverse countries (Austria, Colombia, Greece, Spain and USA). The findings suggest that the most important factors leading to cultural intelligence, in order of importance, are: the number of countries that business practitioners have lived in for more than six months, their level of education and the number of languages spoken. We find that cultural intelligence varies across countries, suggesting that some countries have a higher propensity for cross-cultural business interactions. By teasing out the common antecedents of BCIQ among professionals, our findings may help with screening and training professionals for international assignments. Future research may examine the environmental (country-specific) factors associated with a higher propensity for cultural intelligence (such as immigration, cultural diversity, languages spoken, and international trade) to explain the effect of country of origin on cultural intelligence in the professional community.10aFinance10aOSU-Cascades1 aElston, Julie1 aAlon, Ilan  u/biblio/business-cultural-intelligence-quotient-five-country-study