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A Behavioral and Risk-Management View of Reshoring
No full textThis paper adopts risk management arguments in line with the internationalization process of firms to theorize on reshoring as a decision-making process. While reshoring - the activity of bringing back activities from foreign markets - has previously mainly been discussed as a decision based on arguments from the economic tradition, we offer an alternative, behavioral view of what drives this phenomenon. Reshoring is here conceptualized as part of firms’ nonlinear internationalization process and we extend previous work by focusing on firm’s commitment, knowledge and uncertainty as key variables to explain firms’ behavior when considering decisions to reshore. Moreover we elaborate on how a behavioral view not only allows us to understand reshoring as a risk management decision, but also allows us to understand risk in relation to reshoring as relative and perceived rather than objective and absolute. We discuss the relevance of managers’ perception of risk and postulate five propositions concerning the effects of risk contingencies on a firm’s decision to reshore. This paper contributes to international business research by introducing a risk management perspective to the decisions of reshoring based on the internationalization process logic. In so doing, we specifically introduce the concept of likelihood of reshoring, a situation determined by three typologies of risks associated with the reshoring decision: host-country related risk, home-country related risk, and reshoring process specific risk. A model and propositions are presented to discuss how these risks may affect managerial decision-making on reshoring in different ways
A Behavioral and Risk-Management View of Reshoring
No full textThis paper adopts risk management arguments in line with the behavioral view of the internationalization process of firms to offer an alternative view of the phenomenon of reshoring. So far, research has been looking at reshoring as a decision, based on arguments of full or at least bounded rationality, in accordance with assumptions from the economic tradition. We conceptualize reshoring as part of firms’ nonlinear internationalization process and we extend previous work by focusing on firm’s commitment, knowledge and uncertainty as key variables to explain firms’ behavior when taking decisions to reshore. While arguing for two alternative assumptions, those of bounded rationality and sheer ignorance, in terms of managers’ knowledge when taking reshoring decisions, we elaborate a set of propositions concerning the effects of risk contingencies on a firm’s commitment behavior leading to reshoring. This paper contributes to international business research by discussing behavioral and risk management aspects related to reshoring
Manufacturing reshoring: a strategy to manage risk and commitment in the logic of the internationalization process model
No full textPurpose
This paper theorizes on the internationalization process model to explain cases of manufacturing reshoring as decisions taken to manage risk when internationalizing.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper has a conceptual nature. Building on the logic of the internationalization process model, we extend previous work by focusing on firms’ risk perception (determined by commitment, knowledge and uncertainty as key variables) to explain also reshoring decisions.
Findings
Four propositions were developed, concerning the likelihood of firms to make manufacturing reshoring decisions. The first two propositions deal with the effects of new risk contingencies, and the other two refer specifically to the effects of managerial perceptions of three different typologies of risk, namely host-country, home-country and reshoring-process specific risk.
Originality/value
While reshoring has been discussed mainly on the basis of economic arguments, this paper offers an alternative, behavioural view of this phenomenon as a risk-management strategic process. Therefore, it offers initial steps to theorize about reshoring from a risk-management perspective and, in doing so, opens up a number of avenues for future research
A network perspective on the reshoring process: The relevance of the home- and the host-country contexts
No full textWhile research on reshoring generally focuses on the host-country to explain why a company brings its previously offshored activities back home, this paper stresses the relevance also of the home-country context. Specifically, relying on the IMP (Industrial Marketing & Purchasing) perspective we show how offshoring and reshoring processes and decisions are both enabled and constrained by the micro-interactions and interdependencies in the industrial networks stretching over the home-country and the host-country. This work relies on a longitudinal case study about an Italian manufacturing firm to develop a model indicating how offshoring/reshoring is a long-term process which unfolds depending both on the focal firm's strategy and on its interplay with the embedding network. Next to this interactive process perspective, we contribute to the literature on reshoring and the global factory also the concept of “selective reshoring” whereby companies bring back a very specific sub-set of activities, which were previously fine-sliced and offshored, and re-embed these activities in their local home context. The more flexible and selective nature of this relocation of activities between different supply markets depends both on the firm's strategy and on the structure, overlap and evolution of the network elements located in the home- and host-country contexts
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Business Relationships’ International Interconnectedness: Effects on Subsidiaries Development and Headquarter relationships
No full textVariations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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