S Cosimato, R Vona - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently, some critical events (eg, the economic decline, the growing socio-ecologic burden, even more demanding customers, etc.) have led several companies to re-think their …
While the World is still dealing with the health and safety issues raised by the Covid-19 pandemic, it is already quite apparent–and acknowledged–that this event will have a …
An analysis of the competitive priorities that may lead backshoring companies to adopt new technologies is developed and tested using secondary data from 495 relocation initiatives to …
J Stentoft, C Rajkumar - International Journal of Production …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In view of the fact that Industry 4.0 is becoming increasingly essential, the implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies is believed to be an essential strategic component in further …
R McIvor, L Bals - International Business Review, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently firms have been reconsidering offshoring decisions, and have been reshoring activities back from offshore locations to domestic locations. The aim of this paper is to …
M Johansson, J Olhager - International Journal of Production Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
The global nature of businesses has increased the geographical dispersion of operations and has made the location decision an important strategic perspective for manufacturing …
The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to trigger a reconfiguration of global value chains according to four alternative trajectories: reshoring, regionalization, replication and …
In the realm of manufacturing location decisions, reshoring has increasingly attracted the attention of practitioners, policy makers and scholars. While many articles have analysed the …
This paper describes an empirically derived classification of the various factors that influence offshoring and backshoring decisions based on data from 275 offshoring and 160 …