"All nations of the region, including China, have a choice: to unite, and recommit to a stable regional order, or to walk away from that commitment and risk the peace and security that has benefited millions of people throughout the Asia-Pacific, and billions of people around the world," Mr Hagel said.
Because export involves relatively low levels of commitment and risk, it is usually a starting point for entering foreign markets and an important internationalization strategy for SMEs (Leonidou and Katsikeas, 1996; Young et al. 1989).
That requires a bit more of a commitment and risk -- a leap that artist Antony Micallef is willing to take.
As the national advocate for more than 200 local chambers of commerce and 3.2 million Hispanic-owned businesses across the United States and Puerto Rico, the USHCC takes special interest in small businesses that take the initiative, make the commitment and risk their capital to do business in our communities.
Besides offerings in common categories like sports and music, the channels include fare from some big names, including basketball star Shaquille O'Neal ("The Comedy Shaq") and comic-book legend Stan Lee ("World of Heroes").Specialty channels are the bread and butter of cable and satellite television networks, where they require enormous budgets, long commitments and substantial risk.
Ekvall [ 4] describes this in terms of the organisation's climate, implying a certain degree of openness, commitment, motivation and risk-taking mentality.
Dreyfus (1999, 2001) argues, in a similar vein that without a situated and embodied engagement there can be no commitment and no risk.
The Big Shift will require serious commitment and major risk, taking the plunge on a completely new paradigm and knowing full well that the existing one hundred year old paradigm will die.
This can lead to over-commitment and a risk of poor performance and motivation.
Larger organisations are in a stronger position to handle compliance and governance commitments, risk and financial management and increasingly complex IT systems.
