In the last years, research on reshoring has gained momentum and experienced rapid
development. Relying on bibliometric and content analyses of 135 articles from the Web of …

This volume brings together expert contributors to explore opportunities and challenges that
Industry 4.0 is likely to pose for regions, firms and jobs in Europe. Drawing on theory and …

Firms' reshoring strategies have recently sparked academic and policy interest due to their
contribution to rebalancing advanced economies. In line with the ongoing debate and by …

With respect to the increasing trend of companies reversing or modifying previous offshoring
decisions, research on manufacturing relocation has gained momentum over the past …

This chapter aims to review the recent debate on de-globalisation and to present some
preliminary evidence that reconsiders the value of a manufacturing activity in light of the …

After decades of off-shoring strategies, companies are often critically re-evaluating their
earlier location decisions; in doing so, sometimes they implement the so-called relocation of …

Purpose Reshoring implies the reconfiguration of supply networks. Focusing on the specific
case of a born-offshored firm that engaged in reshoring of outsourced activities, this study …

Free ports are a form of territorial exceptionalism that has existed for centuries and become
an important paradigm of globalization. In the contemporary setting, they act as …

The objective of this chapter is to analyze the impact (if any) of Industry 4.0 enabling
technology on firms' decision to relocate to the home country their offshored production …

With the rapid changes taking place in international manufacturing, there is a need for new
theories linking the drivers for manufacturing location decisions to the influence of …