Offshoring and Reshoring: An Update on the Manufacturing Location Decision

By Lisa M. Ellram, Wendy L. Tate, K. Petersen. 2013

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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Drivers and barriers to reshoring: a literature review on offshoring in reverse (2017, background): “Like many other authors, Ellram et al. (2013) partly disregard the ownership mode by seeing reshoring as a pure manufacturing location decision for which many drivers exist which are both connected and unconnected to the preceding offshoring decision.”
Reshoring and insourcing: drivers and future research directions (2016, background): “In this context, the prioritization of environmental and social concerns by Western buying firms may be met with indifference in some locations versus others (Ellram et al., 2013; Reuter et al., 2010).”
Manufacturing reshoring and its limits: the UK automotive case (2014, background): “Indeed, manufacturing reshoring is a major topic of current debate in several countries, including Germany (Dachs and Kinkel, 2013; Kinkel 2012, 2014), the US (Ellram et al., 2013) and the UK (Merlin-Jones, 2012), despite evidence of the phenomenon in the latter being somewhat thin.”
Bringing it all back home? Backshoring of manufacturing activities and the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies (2019, background): “Environmental uncertainty encompasses the perceived degree of volatility and unpredictability of a foreign market, including unforeseen cost increases, quality and flexibility issues, raw material shortages, or currency fluctuations (Ellram et al., 2013; Gray et al., 2013; Tate et al., 2014).”
Prior to reshoring: A duration analysis of foreign manufacturing ventures (2015, background): “) have been called to explain firms' decisions to relocate closer to their headquarters (Dachs and Kinkel, 2013; Ellram et al., 2013; Kinkel, 2014; Simchi-Levi et al., 2012; Tate, 2014).”
Why locate manufacturing in a high-cost country?: A case study of 35 production location decisions (2017, background): “One is the notion of reshoring (Ellram et al., 2013; Gray et al., 2017): some Western manufacturers are “bringing manufacturing back home,” but our understanding of why exactly this occurs is limited.”
Empirical investigation of data analytics capability and organizational flexibility as complements to supply chain resilience (2019, background): “However, the reduction in supply chain costs often creates greater vulnerabilities, which may erode the profit earned by these organizations in forms of disruptions, which may affect revenue and cost (Ellram et al. 2013; Brandon-Jones et al. 2014; Behzadi et al. 2017).”
Reshoring: a strategic renewal of luxury clothing supply chains (2016, background): “reshoring and the ‘Made in’ or ‘country-of-origin’ factor has been paid limited attention (Ellram et al. 2013; Fratocchi et al. 2016; Grappi et al. 2015).”
Offshoring and backshoring: A multiple case study analysis (2017, methodology): “These results align with findings by Ellram et al. (2013), whose survey identified concerns associated with logistic costs in South Asia and with logistics in East Asia, accounting for a reduction in the efficiency seeking advantage of these regions.”
Institutional and strategic operations perspectives on manufacturing reshoring (2016, background): “Operations Management academics (Ferdows 1997; Fisher 1997; Lee 2002) had already identified increasing risks and costs associated with long supply chains, as the trend towards shorter and shorter product life cycles. Fisher (1997) separates these costs into physical costs (costs of production, tran”
Motivations of manufacturing reshoring: an interpretative framework (2016, unknown): “…the phenomenon (Ellram, 2013; Fratocchi et al., 2014; Gray et al., 2013; Holz, 2009), at establishing its geographical boundaries (e.g. the host countries involved) (Dachs and Kinkel, 2013), and at pinning down the underlying motivations of companies (e.g. Ellram et al., 2013; Kinkel, 2014).”
Integrating the Supply Chain … 25 years on (2016, background): “A reduction in cost benefits, coupled to higher logistics costs, long transport times, and increased risks have influenced firms to move production closer to the point of consumption (Ellram et al., 2013); a phenomena known as re-shoring or near-shoring.”