In this chapter I discuss the existing models of sequential versus non-sequential processes of firms and I develop the criteria to classify firms into international stages as well as I develop the Externalization Stages Behavioural Model which explains the externalization process of firms

For over three decades U.S. Coast Guard leaders have struggled to address the strategic risk to the nation created by the exhaustively-studied yet still unresolved U.S. “icebreaker deficit.” This article examines the current state of the U.S. Coast Guard's icebreaking fleet and recent...

China’s geopolitical ambitions give rise to risks that government agencies and the businesses they regulate need to address. In particular, Military-Civil Fusion (MCF), a whole-of-government legal and administrative machinery created by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), aims to give China’s...