Factors affecting location decisions in international operations – a Delphi study

By B. MacCarthy, W. Atthirawong. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Information Systems

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Consensus measurement in Delphi studies (2012, background): “MacCarthy and Atthirawong [48], for example, assumed that another round would not significantly add to the results and therefore terminated the process.”
Expert Evaluation of Diagnostic Instrument for Personal and Organizational Value Congruence (2016, background): “MacCarthy and Atthirawong (2003) state that experts should not affect each other’s views and mind.”
Trends in production relocation and backshoring activities (2012, background): “Reduction of labour costs, access to new markets, vicinity to key customers, access to new knowledge and the search for superior tax incentives and subsidies are among the most important motives (Dunning, 1980, 1988; Ferdows, 1997; Kinkel et al., 2007; MacCarthy and Atthirawong, 2003; Vereecke and v”
Critical Barriers to Implementation of Reverse Logistics in the Manufacturing Industry: A Case Study of a Developing Country (2018, methodology): “A Delphi Method based study to identify the factors affecting location decision in international operations [75] DM”
Why locate manufacturing in a high-cost country?: A case study of 35 production location decisions (2017, background): “…et al. (1995); Belderbos and Sleuwaegen (2005); Bhatnagar et al. (2003); Brush et al. (1999); Ellram et al. (2013); Feldmann and Olhager (2013); MacCarthy and Atthirawong (2003); Yoshida (1987) Organization Internal structure of the firm, and the roles that different manufacturing plants have…”
Drivers and antecedents of manufacturing offshoring and backshoring—A German perspective (2009, background): “Due to their long-term influence on competitiveness and almost all operational processes of an enterprise, location decisions for production activities are of highly strategic importance (Dunning, 1988; Ferdows, 1997; MacCarthy and Atthirawong, 2003).”
Do managers behave the way theory suggests? A choice-theoretic examination of foreign direct investment location decision-making (2007, background): “The single Delphi study (MacCarthy and Atthirawong, 2003) found conventional results for the motivations of firms in manufacturing foreign investment location.”
Distance and Perceptions of Risk in Internationalization Decisions (2015, background): “Several studies confirm that political systems with predictable rules minimize the risks of internationalization and increase the likelihood of FDI (Gelbuda, Meyer, & Delios, 2008; MacCarthy & Atthirawong, 2003).”