De-globalisation, value chains and reshoring

Adoption of ICTs in Agri-Food Logistics: Potential and Limitations for Supply Chain Sustainability

“…but gave them up after a while, often because they proved inappropriate to the work tempo. The low adoption is confirmed by the calculation of the "revealed physical capital intensity in the US" for the years 1988 to 2014, that displays that in the low-skill sectors (to which the fruit and vegetable sector belongs), new technologies are not replacing low-skill routine occupations [68].…”

“…"There are too many possibilities for evolution, it will depend on consumer demand," said one respondent. More informed authors make the same remark: "The more substantial impact [of ICTs] on the form of supply chains is still to come" [68] (p. 155).…”

“…Second, in Europe, many clues attest that the trends of globalization, specialization of regions, monofunctionality and free-trade contracts are over. Because of the long recession following the 2008 crisis, the emergence of populist movements in Western countries and renewed protectionist policies: "there is evidence that MNEs [multinational enterprises] are reorienting their internationalization strategies by changing the parameters of their production location choices" [68] (p. 155). Third, citizens hold enterprises and governments to account for use of pesticides and for any other risk (e.g., decline of pollinating insects, birds).…”

Robotisation race in Europe: the robotisation chain approach

“…2020). Consequently, companies may reconsider their value chains, and this could result in reshoring the previously offshored production processes (which depending on reshoring choices and geographical distance could have different forms, such as back-shoring, home-shoring, or near-shoring) (Pegoraro, Propris De, and Chidlow 2020). Studies indicate that in Europe the reshoring has already started (Dachs and Kinkel 2013;Gray et al 2013;Fratocchi et al 2014;De Backer and Flaig 2017;Mauro et al 2018;Dachs et al 2019;Kinkel, Pegoraro, and Coates 2020) as the gap between offshoring and back-shoring activities has become smaller over the past two decades.…”

i4.0, 3D printing, deglobalisation and new manufacturing clusters: The view from Australia

“…The global economy was not in good shape before the advent of Coronavirus-19. There was growing discussion of what was coming to be called ‘deglobalisation’ (Pegoraro et al, 2019). This was evidenced, first, by the rise of nationalist and increasingly protectionist governments across the world, and second, by a restructuring of the seemingly all encompassing GVCs.…”