Exploring the reshoring and insourcing decision making process: toward an agenda for future research

Operations Management Research - Tập 9 Số 3-4 - Trang 102-116 - 2016
Lydia Bals1, Jon F. Kirchoff2, Kai Foerstl3
1Supply Chain & Operations Management, University of Applied Sciences Mainz - School of Business, Lucy Hillebrand Str. 2, 55128, Mainz, Germany
2Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
3Chair of Supply Chain Management & Logistics, German Graduate School of Management & Law (GGS), Bildungscampus 2, 74076, Heilbronn, Germany

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