What do we know about manufacturing reshoring?

P Barbieri, F Ciabuschi, L Fratocchi… - Journal of Global …, 2018 - emerald.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Offshoring and backshoring: A multiple case study analysis

C Di Mauro, L Fratocchi, G Orzes, M Sartor - Journal of Purchasing and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Motivations underscoring offshoring and backshoring are typically investigated as separate
entities in the academic literature. This separation undermines a deeper comprehension of …

Reshoring and insourcing: drivers and future research directions

K Foerstl, JF Kirchoff, L Bals - International Journal of Physical …, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose–Reshoring and insourcing decisions have been discussed in the popular press,
yet coverage of these topics in the academic literature is limited. The purpose of this paper is …

Balancing internal and external knowledge acquisition: the gains and pains from R&D outsourcing

C Grimpe, U Kaiser - Journal of management studies, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
abstract The outsourcing of research and development (R&D) activities has frequently been
characterized as an important instrument to acquire external technological knowledge that is …

R&D (re) location and offshore outsourcing: a management perspective

N Rilla, M Squicciarini - International Journal of Management …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The paper reviews and systematizes the management literature directly and indirectly
related to (re) location of research and development (R&D), in the form of both insourcing …

Trends in production relocation and backshoring activities: changing patterns in the course of the global economic crisis

S Kinkel - International Journal of Operations & Production …, 2012 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present an empirical investigation of recent trends
and changes in companies' production relocation and backshoring behaviour against the …

A multi-theory framework for understanding the reshoring decision

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 …

Drivers and antecedents of manufacturing offshoring and backshoring—A German perspective

S Kinkel, S Maloca - Journal of purchasing and Supply Management, 2009 - Elsevier
Discussions on the potentials and risks of the relocation of manufacturing activities to low-
wage countries have resurged in recent years in the wake of a new globalisation debate …

From global to local: reshoring for sustainability

A Ashby - Operations Management Research, 2016 - Springer
The UK clothing industry has seen the extensive offshoring of manufacturing, which has
created fragmented global supply chains; these present a range of supply issues and …

30+ years of research and practice of outsourcing–Exploring the past and anticipating the future

J Hätönen, T Eriksson - Journal of international Management, 2009 - Elsevier
Outsourcing is a phenomenon that as a practice originated in the 1950s, but it was not until
the 1980s when the strategy became widely adopted in organizations. Since then, the …