eprintid: 323
rev_number: 1
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/00/03/23
datestamp: 2020-04-23 05:15:08
lastmod: 2020-04-23 05:15:08
status_changed: 2020-04-23 05:15:08
type: thesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Wermelink, J.J.
title: Manufacturing movements – moving rightshoring forward: A decision-making model for the manufacturing location- and governance decision.
ispublished: pub
full_text_status: public
abstract: The concept of rightshoring has recently been proposed to put a new perspective on related, but unidirectional phenomena such as backshoring. Within rightshoring, the decision-making process of firms is central. As the concept is in its infancy, this study aims to progress the rightshoring concept. This study divides the decision-making process into two phases: the initial offshoring decision and the consecutive decision-making process. Both phases have been integrated into a decision-making model, in which five general elements have been identified, knowingly: 1) the business strategy, 2) competitive advantage, 3) the location decision, 4) the governance decision and 5) human behaviour. These elements were examined empirically through a qualitative analysis of decision-making processes of three currently offshoring firms within the manufacturing industry. The findings suggest that the firm’s decision-making process is very complex in nature, dependent on an interplay of various firm-specific and environmental factors that are more or less influenceable.
date: 2018
date_type: published
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: EG
tutors_name: Venhorst, V.A.
keywords_local: Governance decision
keywords_local: Location decision
keywords_local: Reshoring
keywords_local: Offshoring
keywords_local: Rightshoring
keywords_local: Manufacturing
language_iso: en
titleorder: Manufacturing movements – moving rightshoring forward: A decision-making model for the manufacturing location- and governance decision.
dbi: 5bb5b15597cef
imported_item: yes
date_of_import: 2020-04-22
imported_from: http://scripties.frw.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/root/ma/EG/2018/jjwermelink/
import_source_file: theses-frw-20200422132455-5bb5b15597cef.xml
date_issued: 2018-01-01
citation:   Wermelink, J.J.  (2018) Manufacturing movements – moving rightshoring forward: A decision-making model for the manufacturing location- and governance decision.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/323/1/Jesse_Wermelink_S2410915_Maste_1.pdf