Bringing it all back home? Backshoring of manufacturing activities and the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies

B Dachs, S Kinkel, A Jäger - Journal of World Business, 2019 - Elsevier
We investigate the relationship between backshoring of production activities and digital
manufacturing technologies, also known as Industry 4.0 (I4. 0). We argue that I4. 0 supports …

Supply base innovation and firm financial performance

Y Dong, K Skowronski, S Song… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Firms are increasingly sourcing innovation from their supply chain partners. Meanwhile,
supply chains have evolved into complex networks, which complicates the role that supply …

Return to the United States: Impact of Reshoring Announcements and Reshoring Risks on Market Valuation

MPS Cheng, C Tang, CKY Lo… - Management …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
With soaring labor and logistics costs in developing countries, supply chain disruptions
during the COVID-19 pandemic triggered Western firms to “reshore” some of their offshore …

The moderating influence of supplier culture on the relationship between buyer power and supplier shirking

K Skowronski, WC Benton Jr… - Journal of Operations …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Globalization has added a layer of complexity to the challenge of mitigating opportunism in
buyer–supplier relationships. When engaging with suppliers in different countries, buyers …

Strategic analysis of supplier integration and encroachment in an outsourcing supply chain

P Hou, Y Zhao, Y Li - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
To prevent suppliers from gaining full knowledge of production technology, original
equipment manufacturers (OEMs) typically adopt a multisourcing strategy, wherein each …

Improving sustainability and social responsibility of a two-tier supply chain investing in emission reduction technology

Q Bai, M Chen, Y Nikolaidis, J Xu - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper studies a retailer-dominated supply chain including a single upstream
manufacturer that produces two substitutable products and a single downstream retailer that …

The dynamics of reshoring decisions and the role of purchasing

A Moretto, AS Patrucco, CM Harland - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Reshoring is a reversal of offshoring decisions and is increasing in business practice. There
is limited understanding of how different drivers relate to different reshoring decisions. There …

Perceived supplier opportunism in outsourcing relationships in emerging economies

K Skowronski, WC Benton Jr… - Journal of Operations …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
While opportunism has been a focus of transaction cost economics, perceived opportunism,
where one party is perceived to be acting opportunistically when there is no opportunistic …

The bright side of trust‐less relationships: A dyadic investigation of the role of trust congruence on supplier knowledge acquisition across borders

L Wang, C Zhang, S Narayanan - Journal of Operations …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Trust is considered essential to interfirm knowledge acquisition across borders. However,
recent studies indicate that interfirm collaboration can thrive even in low trust situations. This …

Innovation in supply networks—A research framework and roadmap

S Kumar, S Narayanan, F Salvador - Journal of Operations Management, 2020 - dl.acm.org
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