World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab offers a practical
companion and field guide to his previous book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Today …

The impact of robots on employment and trade is a highly discussed topic in the academic
and public debates. Particularly, there are concerns that automation may threat jobs in …

Problem definition: Manufacturing firms are undergoing restructuring defined by a collection
of adjustments and decisions, which affect the source and destination of manufactured …

Enabled by the development of internet technologies, cyber-physical production systems
(CPPS) are expected to open up entirely new possibilities to improve the efficiency of …

This paper reports on the results of a global field study conducted in 2014 and 2015 among
leading manufacturers from a wide range of industries. It provides insights on managerial …

L'objectif de cette réflexion est d'analyser les principaux effets de l'intégration des pays
africains dans les CVM sur leur niveau d'industrialisation. Pour y parvenir, nous avons établi …

This research work covers three essays that deal with the impact of technology on labour
markets worldwide (chapter 1 and 3) and the macroeconomic role of search frictions …

MLM : RMTSF Page 1 MLM : RMT SF Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors
der Wirtschaftswissenschaft eingereicht an der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften der …

This project is structured to answer a question of whether it is possible to develop a
sufficiently accurate methodology to assess the reshorability of companies' foreign …

This paper investigates the industrial practices of production offshoring and reshoring—in
particular, the role of strategy and natural hedging (ie, co-locating sales and production …