Purpose The purpose of the study is to explain why some foreign firms are accepted in a host country, while others are not. Design/methodology/approach The paper is conceptual. It first articulates the meaning of firm acceptability in the eyes of host country societies, which remains ambiguous...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is manifested in the context of born global firms. Specifically, the authors investigate the extent to which the EO dimensions of the influential Miller/Covin & Slevin scale are demonstrated in born globals. In...