The existing literature provides a 'piecemeal'approach to our understanding of Industry 4.0
as a 'technological revolution'. However, such an approach leads to scattered literature and …

Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyze and classify research that has been conducted
on manufacturing reshoring, ie the decision to bring back to the home country production …

Motivations underscoring offshoring and backshoring are typically investigated as separate
entities in the academic literature. This separation undermines a deeper comprehension of …

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 …

Innovation has been described as a vehicle of development. This research therefore
address the question of relevance of fourth industrial revolution in providing backbone for …

The goal of this literature review is first of all to help define, characterise and contextualise
the phenomena that make up Industry 4.0 (I4. 0), the servitisation of manufacturing and re …

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 The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the introduction of new technologies
can lead to reconsidering the division of the production process as well as the location of …

This paper addresses the topic of social manufacturing, with the aim of understanding the
key features of such a new manufacturing, network-based model, its enabling factors and …

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 …