Productivity Effects of Outsourcing - New evidence on the strategic importance of vertical integration decisions

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Bringing it all back home? Backshoring of manufacturing activities and the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies (2019, background): “Some organisations are able to adopt manufacturing processes to develop unique and barely imitable competences at specific locations and to exploit these resources in a specific and more effective way (Broedner et al., 2009; Grant, 1991).”
Trends in production relocation and backshoring activities (2012, background): “Adequate assessment methods should also support sensitivity analyses of the main parameters in the different scenarios, allowing for a creative “playing about” with the possible long-term consequences of outsourcing decisions (Broedner et al., 2009).”
Resource based theory in operations management research (2016, background): “…outsourcing success (Bustinza et al., 2010), supply chain performance (Kroes and Ghosh, 2010), information technology expenditures (Fung, 2008), firm level productivity (Broedner et al., 2009), financial performance (Reuter et al., 2010), and sustained competitive advantages (Jeffers et al., 2008).”