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Reshoring of Manufacturing

Drivers, Opportunities, and Challenges

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Alessandra Vecchi

    1. Department of Management, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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  • Investigates the phenomenon of reshoring and its relationship to manufacturing performance
  • Analyzes the impact of governments’ economic policies on the location choices of entrepreneurs
  • Assesses the effect on reshoring of recent developments regarding technology, the environment, and other factors
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Measuring Operations Performance (MEOP)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Alessandra Vecchi

About the editor

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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