Relationship Between the Relocation and Operation of Global Firms

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Author(s): Ahmed Sayem (Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Bangladesh), Miguel Ortega-Mier (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain)and Andreas Feldmann (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 17
Source title: Handbook of Research on Corporate Restructuring and Globalization
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Antonio Carrizo Moreira (University of Aveiro, Portugal)and Pedro Silva (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8906-8.ch011

Keywords: Business & Management / Business and Organizational Research / Business Science Reference / Global Business

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The authors address the importance of the operation of manufacturing networks in order to explain why a company brings its previously offshored facilities back. Fundamentally, this chapter stresses the relevance of network operations in the context of relocation, and hence, the linkage of network-manufacturing capabilities to the reshoring phenomenon. First, it focuses on investigating the relevance of strategic objective of international manufacturing to the management/network operations of international manufacturing network (IMN). Second, it explores the role of strategic capabilities of network-manufacturing on the phenomenon of reshoring. The empirical foundation of this research builds on data from multiple in-depth interviews at companies' headquarters in Spain and Sweden. The results showed the relevance of strategic capabilities of network-manufacturing to reshoring. The authors also provide the guidance for decision making in the operation of international manufacturing.

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