Entrepreneurial orientation has emerged as a major construct in entrepreneurship literature. However, existing definitions of entrepreneurial orientation mainly focus on explorative behavior like innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking. Based on the long tradition of research on...

This paper deals with the still under-researched peculiarities of knowledge-intensive service start-ups (KISS) and their impact on the firms' competitiveness. It is argued that the value-added structure of KISS firms is different from other companies and involves particular uncertainties that...