Reconfiguring the Global Supply Chain: Reshoring

Li Wan (), Guido Orzes () and Guido Nassimbeni ()
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Li Wan: School of Modern Posts, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Guido Orzes: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Guido Nassimbeni: University of Udine

A chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Supply Chain Management, 2024, pp 873-897 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Reshoring – the relocation of insourced or outsourced manufacturing activities back to the home-country – has become a topical issue in the scholarly, management, and policy debate. The political and economic changes in the global chessboard, the decrease in cost advantages of some countries, the growing awareness of the “total cost” of offshoring, and the supply shortages experienced during the covid-19 pandemic have caused many companies to rethink their global supply chain configuration choices. The aim of this chapter is to shed light on the reshoring phenomenon by identifying the main trends, presenting some exemplary cases, discussing motivations and determinants, and explaining the decision-making and implementation processes. This chapter can support managers in global supply chain reconfiguration decisions and policy makers in designing suitable interventions at this respect.

Keywords: Reshoring; Backshoring; Back-reshoring; Global supply chain; Relocation of second degree (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19884-7_81

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