When manufacturing moves back: Concepts and questions

Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 54-59

  Fratocchi, Luciano ^a   Di Mauro, Carmela ^b   Barbieri, Paolo ^c   Nassimbeni, Guido ^d   Zanoni, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d Managerial and Mechanical Engineering ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Back reshoring; Internationalization; Near reshoring; Off shoring; Reshoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894029845     PISSN: 14784092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2014.01.004     Document Type: Article

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