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 …

Offshoring has represented a dominant business practice in the past three decades,
prompting considerable research across multiple business domains to understand its …

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 …

Social issues in the supply chain are defined as product-or process-related aspects of
operations that affect human safety, welfare and community development. Drawing from …

Purpose–Reshoring and insourcing decisions have been discussed in the popular press,
yet coverage of these topics in the academic literature is limited. The purpose of this paper is …

Given today's rapidly shifting global competitive conditions—including customer location,
natural disasters, currency valuation, labor and transportation costs and availability—many …

Based on a study of leader communication effectiveness conducted in a large human
resource outsourcing firm, this article reports how virtual team members' perceptions of their …

Recently firms have been reconsidering offshoring decisions, and have been reshoring
activities back from offshore locations to domestic locations. The aim of this paper is to …

Purpose–Increasing empirical evidence suggests organizational actions are not always
driven by economic efficiency considerations, contrary to the rational decision making …

The topics of reshoring and insourcing have recently become more widely discussed among
operations management and international business scholars and managers, as some firms …