Country of Origin: Reshoring Implication in the Context of the UK Fashion Industry

Rashid, Arooj; Barnes, Liz

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58883-4_9

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“…However, most of them considered changes in costs, quality, and risks related to the offshore countries, together with the need to react to offshore failure to be among the strongest motivations for enacting reshoring strategies [58,70,80,81]. It follows that the motivations of reshoring can be divided into two main categories: (1) a response to internal or external changes [79,82,83] or (2) a correction of prior decisions or actions [81,82]. In this sense, Mugurusi and Boer [84] maintained that reshoring is "more than just a geographical shift of operations.…”

Section: "Why" Reshoringmentioning

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Digital Innovation for the Sustainability of Reshoring Strategies: A Literature Review

Cosimato

Vona

2021

Sustainability

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Recently, some critical events (e.g., the economic decline, the growing socio-ecologic burden, even more demanding customers, etc.) have led several companies to re-think their “shoring” decisions. Therefore, many of them decided to reshore manufacturing or to bring back home production activities previously offshored. This phenomenon represents one of the current imperatives for research. In fact, the location where manufacturing takes place has a massive influence on the sustainability of firms on a local and global level. Therefore, to better understand what makes reshoring strategies sustainable as well as to identify the drivers that can boost it, further research is still needed. The explorative nature of this paper recognizes some motivations or drivers for making reshoring strategies sustainable. To this end, a structured and narrative literature review has been conducted to grasp and describe the main motivations and implementation characteristics that can make reshoring decisions sustainable. The achieved results better define reshoring and the influence that some drivers, especially digital innovation, can play on the related strategies and on their sustainability. In doing so, this work is one of the first contributions that jointly approaches reshoring, sustainability, and digital innovation.

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Section: "Why" Reshoringmentioning

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Digital Innovation for the Sustainability of Reshoring Strategies: A Literature Review

Cosimato

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2021

Sustainability

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“…In order to reach such an objective, we assume a contingency approach by focusing on a specific industry as suggested by [19]. More specifically, analysis will be centred on the footwear industry which has been significantly characterized by offshoring strategies in the last few decades [20]. In this respect, during the 2010s, over 90% of apparel and footwear companies in the US moved their production activities overseas [17].…”

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Back-Shoring vs. Near-Shoring: A Comparative Study

Merino

Stefano

Fratocchi

2020

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering

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After decades of manufacturing offshoring strategies, generally addressed to low cost countries, in the last few years companies have been increasingly revising their location strategies. In so doing, they often implement either back-shoring (relocation to the home country) or near-shoring (relocation to the home region) alternatives. While the former strategy has gained increasing attention among scholars in recent years, studies on near-shoring are still scarce. Moreover, the academic literature rarely compares the two phenomena in order to understand why companies prefer to implement one instead of the other. This paper aims to shed new light on similarities and differences among back- and near-shoring strategies. In order to reach such an objective, we assume a contingency approach by focusing on a specific industry, the footwear sector, which has been significantly characterized by offshoring strategies. In order to reach the research aim, the comparison between back- and near-shoring strategies will be conducted focusing on three main issues: a) characteristics of the companies implementing the relocation strategy (firm’s size); b) motivations inducing companies to relocate; c) barriers to the implementation of the relocation decision. Given the explorative nature of the paper, the features of 41 back- and near-shoring decisions implemented by 25 Italian and Spanish companies operating in the footwear industry will be analysed. Preliminary findings show smaller companies are more likely to back-shore instead of near-shore, probably because of the lower competences and resources they own. At the same time, availability of skilled contractors and/or availability of government aid in the home country induce them to back-shore instead of near-shore. Finally, the lack of skilled suppliers mainly characterizes the back-shoring alternative.

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“…Insch and McBride, 2004;Jiménez and Martín, 2012;Lee et al, 2013;Mostafa, 2015). For example, Rashid and Barnes (2017) identified the influence the media industry has on the perception of a country's image, i.e. the influence of a factory collapse in Bangladesh in 2013 (Bolle, 2014).…”

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“…More recently, authors, e.g. Rashid et al (2016) and Barnes and Rashid (2017), have also made a contribution towards managerial perspectives and issues relating to the country of origin impact on the fashion industry. However, no research to date has examined the influence of country of origin on purchase intention with specific reference to apparel fitting.…”

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The Influence of Country of Origin on Purchase Intention With Specific Reference to Apparel Fitting

Rashid¹,

Barnes²

2018

GMFC

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Country of Origin: Reshoring Implication in the Context of the UK Fashion Industry

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Digital Innovation for the Sustainability of Reshoring Strategies: A Literature Review

Digital Innovation for the Sustainability of Reshoring Strategies: A Literature Review

Back-Shoring vs. Near-Shoring: A Comparative Study

The Influence of Country of Origin on Purchase Intention With Specific Reference to Apparel Fitting

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