Problem Definition: Manufacturing firms are undergoing re-structuring defined by a collection of adjustments and decisions, which affect the source and destination of manufactured products throughout the firm's global supply chain network. We report on a comprehensive picture of manufacturing...

This paper investigates the industrial practices of production offshoring and reshoring — in particular, the role of strategy and natural hedging (i.e., co-locating sales and production activities). After analyzing the recent production sourcing decisions of 74 leading global manufacturing...

This chapter summarizes the last eight years of collaborative research of a global group of scholars on supply chain management and especially on how companies are dealing with uncertainties and disruptions. Starting with analyzing the factors that drive changes in global supply chain designs,...