The many scholars approaching Industry 4.0 today need to confront the lack of an agreed-
upon definition, posing serious limitations to theory building and research comparability …

Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyze and classify research that has been conducted
on manufacturing reshoring, ie the decision to bring back to the home country production …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for the analysis of reshoring.
The framework is then applied to analyze motivations for reshoring, as they emerge from …

This paper throws light on the determinants of the duration of manufacturing offshore
experiences by US and European firms prior to reshoring. By applying survival analysis to a …

Purpose Production activities affect environmental and social pillars of firm's sustainability.
Therefore, decisions regarding where products are manufactured have a tremendous impact …

Purpose The first aim of the chapter is to offer a characterization of back-reshoring as a
possible step of the firm's nonlinear internationalization process. The second aim is to …

Purpose This paper aims to theorize on the internationalization process model to explain
cases of manufacturing reshoring as decisions taken to manage risk when …

Digitalization and the growth of big data promise greater customization as well as change in
how manufacturing is distributed. Yet, challenges arise in applying these new approaches in …

The paper aims to investigate the hypothesis that additive manufacturing technologies
(AMTs) may enable manufacturing reshoring, ie, the repatriation of manufacturing activities …

Over the past years, use of the terms like “on-shoring”,“re-shoring” and “back-shoring” has
multiplied dramatically, especially in economics journalism and in consulting firms' white …