Drivers and antecedents of manufacturing offshoring and backshoring—A German perspective

By Steffen Kinkel, S. Maloca. 2009

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

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Trends in production relocation and backshoring activities (2012, background): “The comparative location advantage of a high-wage country such as Germany relies strongly on the skills of qualified personnel to efficiently use and further optimise capital-intensive production technologies (Kinkel and Maloca, 2009; Pennings and Sleuwaegen, 2000).”
Throwing Out the Ballast: Growth Models and the Liberalization of German Industrial Relations (2016, background): “It is true that Kinkel and Maloca (2009) also report cases of backshoring after a few years, mainly from Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary, but outsourcing does not necessarily require to be actually carried out to achieve concessions.”
Motivations of manufacturing reshoring: an interpretative framework (2016, positive): “…precisely, some scholars have pointed out that geographical and cultural distance can raise the risk of opportunistic behaviour by either offshore suppliers (Kinkel and Maloca, 2009; McIvor, 2013) or proprietary offshore production sites (Kinkel and Maloca, 2009; Martínez-Mora and Merino, 2014).”
Institutional and strategic operations perspectives on manufacturing reshoring (2016, background): “…locations, or even home to the United-States’ Reshoring Bellego (2014) ‘bringing back manufacturing operations to the country of origin’ Backshoring Kinkel and Maloca (2009) ‘re-concentration of parts of production from own foreign locations as well as from foreign suppliers to domestic…”
Prior to reshoring: A duration analysis of foreign manufacturing ventures (2015, background): “SMEs are more prone to strategic mistakes in the ex-ante evaluation of offshore initiatives, which may be corrected by reversing the offshore decision (Kinkel and Maloca, 2009).”
Reshoring: a strategic renewal of luxury clothing supply chains (2016, background): “Accordingly, reshoring has been viewed as a sheer consequence of learning and correcting the previous misjudged offshoring decisions (Kinkel and Maloca 2009; Kinkel 2012, 2014).”
Reshoring and insourcing: drivers and future research directions (2016, background): “Backshoring is the decision to partially or fully relocate value creation to the home country of the firm’s headquarters (Fratocchi et al., 2014; Kinkel and Maloca, 2009).”
Offshoring and backshoring: A multiple case study analysis (2017, background): “This approach implicitly assumes that backshoring is independent of why value chain activities were previously offshored, when and where they were offshored, and to whom these activities were delegated (Joubioux and Vanpoucke, 2016).”
Drivers and barriers to reshoring: a literature review on offshoring in reverse (2017, background): “While Kinkel and others researching the reshoring phenomenon in Europe found that reshoring mostly happens on a continental level rather than from China or other far-off locations, Fratocchi’s et al.’s (2014) dataset implies that almost 70 percent of all reshoring cases described reshoring activitie”
Manufacturing reshoring and its limits: the UK automotive case (2014, background): “The authors argue that this is evidence of ‘short-term corrections’ due to changes in the host business environment (Kinkel and Maloca, 2009) or a form of on Walrasian ta ̑tonnement (Leibl et al., 2011).”