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 reports on the results of a global field study conducted in 2014 and 2015 among leading manufacturers from a wide range of industries. It provides insights on managerial practices that concern production sourcing and on the factors that drive such decisions. Exploratory factor...

This study examines the operational (improvement) benefits of strategy cascading — as well as the effects of leadership style — as embedded in the organizational context of portfolio complexity. We use multiple comparative case studies (based on nine manufacturing sites of a global...

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...