... and between offshoring and backshoring. Design/methodology/approach We use an exploratory longitudinal trend survey approach with data from two surveys, the first before the pandemic, 2010–2015, and the second during the pandemic, 2020–2022. Both rounds were targeted to the entire population of Swedish...

...Wendy L. Tate; Lydia Bals The last decades have seen manufacturing and services offshoring on the rise, often motivated by low prices and without consideration of other important criteria such as additional cost measures and risk. With wages in former low-cost countries and automation...

... to be core to business strategy. Companies are required to have a supply chain and business intelligence strategy designed to make the best total value decision (Tate et al., 2014). For over two decades, developed countries have been offshoring their manufacturing activities to the low-cost...

... of value creation and the production process of knowledge-intensive services with regards to offshoring. After explaining the chosen research approach in the methodology section, data are analyzed with regards to the production process of the chosen services. Last, a discussion and conclusion is provided...

... (Andersson and Pedersen, 2010 ; Larsen et al., 2013 ; Manning et al., 2011 ; Paz-Aparicio and Ricart, 2013). A firm would contemplate offshore outsourcing when the perceived advantages of the disintegration of value chain activities and externalization are high or superior and when...