1 Entrepreneurial Orientation Diagnosis in SMEs: Some Conceptual and Methodological Dimensions Wassim ALOULOU ( 1) University of Sfax, Tunisia awacim@go.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My Acknowledgments go to Prof. Alain FAYOLLE for his supporting and helpful comments and to Mr. Ayadi HAJJI for his help with English. With gratitude, I thank the scientific committee of the European Summer University for giving me the opportunity to participate in the conference. This version of the paper appears in the First European Summer University 2002 at Valence. Entrepreneurship Research in Europe: Specificities and Perspectives INPG – ESISAR Valence (France) September 19 th – 22 nd 2002 (1) Lecturer of Management and entrepreneurship at ENIS, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia.