AIB Insights · 2015 · 21 citations · 15 references
BusinessInternational BusinessInternational ManagementEconomic GeographyGlobal SourcingInternational Operations ManagementInternational CompetitivenessInternational ExpansionInternational SourcingInternationalization StrategyReshoringTransnational CorporationsActivitiesInternational OutsourcingManufacturingManufacturing ReshoringOffshoring GeographyOffshoring Of DevelopmentReshoring GeographyService Offshoring
After decades of offshoring, involving production activities and business functions, some service and manufacturing companies have started to bring back their activities to their home country. We refer to this phenomenon by the term reshoring. We illustrate empirical evidence relying on two different datasets (“Uni-CLUB MoRe reshoring”; “Offshoring Research Network project”) which guarantee the largest geographical coverage of the phenomenon. Our data exhibits 501 reshoring cases of manufacturing activities (especially in fashion and electronics industries) from emerging to advanced (e.g. U.S. and Germany) countries mainly due to cost reasons; conversely, the back-reshoring of business functions is still a limited phenomenon.
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