... of the rightshoring decision which is an important conceptual foundation for this special issue, as it invited insightful pieces on all of these phenomena (e.g. outsourcing, insourcing, offshoring, reshoring), acknowledging that these decisions are embedded in the same context – firms making governance and location...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Location Transaction cost economics Insourcing Make or buy Organizational buying behaviour Research agenda Reshoring Outsourcing and offshoring are important business strategies and continue to be of significant interest to both managers...

... and identify future research opportunities. The design aspects deal with strategic and structural decisions such as: opening or closing of manufacturing plants or distribution centres, selection of locations for manufacturing or warehousing, and making substantial capacity changes in manufacturing...

... linear programming problems of interest are the large‐scale facility location and allocation problems in supply chain optimization. A system that automates this process for supply chain optimization at PFS Logistics Consulting is discussed and an example is presented. © MCB UP Limited 2001...

...Cem Canel; Sidhartha R. Das The literature on the facilities location problem is quite extensive with a wide variety of solution methods for addressing these problems where the objective is cost minimization. Develops a branch and bound algorithm for solving the uncapacitated, multi‐period facility...

...Vaidyanathan Jayaraman There have been numerous extensions of the maximum covering location problem that has been developed in the last decade to deal with facility location. Most of the research, however, addresses a single attribute or objective. In the case when a single criterion...

... the world there is a range of contexts that may influence determinants. Norway has distinctive features including export dependency with a small home market, a peripheral location, and an extreme topography and climate. Despite an awareness of logistics concepts, Norwegian exporters appear to place more...

...David de la Fuente; Jesús Lozano The aim of the present article is to decide the ideal number of warehouses for a food manufacturer in the north of Spain (Asturias) for the year 2000, and their ideal location in the Spanish Peninsula by cluster analysis. The stages followed are to comment first...

... for most practical‐sized problems. Therefore proposes heuristic method to decompose the model into subproblems by partitioning the planning period into blocks of years and then synthesize the subproblem solutions. Such decomposition may also be useful to solve large dynamic location planning problems...

...Choong Y. Lee Suggests that, in recent years, remarkable progress has been made in the development of the topological design of logistics networks,especially in the warehouse location problem. Extends the standard warehouse location problem to a generalization of multiproduct capacitated warehouse...

.... With the completion of the US‐Canada Free Trade Act, many of these limitations are being reduced. It is now time for firms to refine their distribution networks to respond to this new environment. The major changes that firms must consider are distribution centre locations and manufacturing supply points. The factors...