Reshoring of Manufacturing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Defining the Field of Enquiry

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Manufacturing Reshoring Explained: An Interpretative Framework of Ten Years of Research

      • Paolo Barbieri, Francesco Ciabuschi, Luciano Fratocchi, Matteo Vignoli

      Pages 3-37

   3. Offshoring Versus Reshoring? Rather, Shouldn’t It Be Rightshoring?

      • Alessandro Baroncelli, Valeria Belvedere, Luigi Serio

      Pages 39-56

   4. Complementing the Reshoring of Manufacturing Activities: The Relocation of Business Functions

      • Filippo Albertoni, Stefano Elia, Lucia Piscitello

      Pages 57-75

3. Enablers and Drivers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Knowledge Transfer in Reshoring

      • Daniella Fjellström, Lok Yan Lui, Wilfredo Caceres

      Pages 79-98

   3. Is 3D Printing an Enabling Technology for Manufacturing Reshoring?

      • Luciano Fratocchi

      Pages 99-124

   4. Blockchain and Sensor-Based Reputation Enforcement for the Support of the Reshoring of Business Activities

      • Gustavo Marfia, Piergiorgio Degli Esposti

      Pages 125-139

4. Emblematic Evidence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. Reshoring Strategy: Case Illustrations of Japanese Manufacturing Firms

      • YoungWon Park, Paul Hong

      Pages 143-161

   3. The Chinese Bittersweet Cake in Orbea’s Internationalization

      • Berrbizne Urzelai, Francisco Puig

      Pages 163-181

   4. Country of Origin: Reshoring Implication in the Context of the UK Fashion Industry

      • Arooj Rashid, Liz Barnes

      Pages 183-201

   5. Reshoring: A Stage in Economic Development or a False Patriotic Tune? The Case of the Polish Apparel and Footwear Industry

      • Beata Stępień, Michał Młody

      Pages 203-236

This book examines key aspects of the increasingly important phenomenon of reshoring – the decision of companies to reverse offshoring by bringing manufacturing back from overseas. The aim is to equip readers with a full understanding of the current extent of reshoring, its drivers, and the associated opportunities and challenges. The impact of governments’ economic policies on the location choices of entrepreneurs in an era of globalization is carefully analyzed, drawing on experiences in the United States and Italy, where contrasting encouragement is provided for reshoring decisions. The effect on reshoring of recent developments regarding technology, the environment, and other factors is assessed in depth, and readers will also find close scrutiny of the relationship between reshoring and manufacturing performance. The book will be of interest to all academics, researchers, and practitioners with an interest in the manufacturing industry and will be an excellent teaching aid for a variety of courses in different disciplines at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

• manufacturing reshoring
• onshoring
• inshoring
• offshoring
• nearshoring
• domestic manufacturing
• manufacturing strategy
• supply chain transformation
• manufacturing relocation

• Department of Management, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  Alessandra Vecchi

Alessandra Vecchi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Bologna in Italy, where she holds a Marie Curie Fellowship. Additionally she holds the position of Senior Research Fellow at London College of Fashion. Besides teaching several subjects, mostly in the field of International Business and Operations Management at postgraduate level, she supervises MA and PhD students in a wide array of Fashion Management-related subjects. She has a significant track of high-profile publications and her research interests tend to be of a multidisciplinary nature and rather eclectic.

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