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Small Bus Econ DOI 10.1007/s11187-010-9267-6 Entrepreneurial orientation in long-lived family firms Thomas Zellweger • Philipp Sieger Accepted: 25 January 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2010 Abstract We apply a key construct from the entre- 1 Introduction preneurship field, entrepreneurial orientation (EO), in the context of long-lived family firms. Our qualitative A wide stream of corporate entrepreneurship literature in-depth case studies show that a permanently high proposes that entrepreneurial attitudes and behav- level of the five EO dimensions is not a necessary ior are crucial antecedents for a company’s short- and condition for long-term success, as traditional entre- long-term success (e.g., Dess et al. 2003; Zahra and preneurship and EO literature implicitly suggest. Covin 1995; Zahra et al. 2000). Effective corporate Rather, we claim that the level of EO is dynamically entrepreneurship allows a firm to exploit its current adapted over time and that the original EO scales competitive advantage while also exploring future (autonomy, innovativeness, risk taking, proactiveness , opportunities and required competencies (Covin and and competitive aggressiveness) do not sufficiently Miles 1999; Kuratko et al. 2005; Schendel and Hitt capture the full extent of entrepreneurial behaviors in 2007). In an environment of rapid change and short- long-lived family firms. Based on these considerations ened product and business model life cycles, future we suggest extending the existing EO scales to provide profit streams from existing operations are uncertain, a more fine-grained depiction of firm-level corporate requiring businesses to constantly seek new opportu- entrepreneurship i