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When does the manufacturing reshoring strategy create value?

Reshoring has gained a lot of attention recently by academics and practitioners alike, and is promising to become even more relevant in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Building on earlier research on the effects of reshoring announcements on the short-term market value of the firm, this work...

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Main Authors: Antonios Karatzas, Alessandro Ancarani, Luciano Fratocchi, Cristina Di Stefano, Jan Godsell
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/20457219.v1
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author Antonios Karatzas
Alessandro Ancarani
Luciano Fratocchi
Cristina Di Stefano
Jan Godsell
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Alessandro Ancarani
Luciano Fratocchi
Cristina Di Stefano
Jan Godsell
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description Reshoring has gained a lot of attention recently by academics and practitioners alike, and is promising to become even more relevant in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Building on earlier research on the effects of reshoring announcements on the short-term market value of the firm, this work employs an event-study methodology and aims to understand under which circumstances the market perceives reshoring as potentially more (or less) value-creating. The analysis of a sample of 64 reshoring instances from 2005 to 2019, announced by 54 firms from eight developed economies, suggests that investors are more confident in the firm's future cash-flow potential when: a) it invests in productive activities at home, instead of overseas, i.e. ‘kept-from-offshoring’ (as opposed to actual relocations of activities, i.e. ‘back-reshoring’); b) the reshoring instance is communicated as a ‘plan’ (rather than a fixed ‘decision’); c) no state- or government-induced financial incentives are involved; d) the motivations are primarily ‘cost-efficiency seeking’ (rather than ‘customer perceived value seeking’).
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spelling rr-article-204572192022-04-26T00:00:00Z When does the manufacturing reshoring strategy create value? Antonios Karatzas (13235213) Alessandro Ancarani (10197145) Luciano Fratocchi (13235216) Cristina Di Stefano (8942075) Jan Godsell (11416985) Manufacturing Reshoring Relocation Event-study Abnormal returns Covid-19 pandemic Shareholder wealth Reshoring has gained a lot of attention recently by academics and practitioners alike, and is promising to become even more relevant in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Building on earlier research on the effects of reshoring announcements on the short-term market value of the firm, this work employs an event-study methodology and aims to understand under which circumstances the market perceives reshoring as potentially more (or less) value-creating. The analysis of a sample of 64 reshoring instances from 2005 to 2019, announced by 54 firms from eight developed economies, suggests that investors are more confident in the firm's future cash-flow potential when: a) it invests in productive activities at home, instead of overseas, i.e. ‘kept-from-offshoring’ (as opposed to actual relocations of activities, i.e. ‘back-reshoring’); b) the reshoring instance is communicated as a ‘plan’ (rather than a fixed ‘decision’); c) no state- or government-induced financial incentives are involved; d) the motivations are primarily ‘cost-efficiency seeking’ (rather than ‘customer perceived value seeking’). 2022-04-26T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/20457219.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/When_does_the_manufacturing_reshoring_strategy_create_value_/20457219 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
spellingShingle Manufacturing
Reshoring
Relocation
Event-study
Abnormal returns
Covid-19 pandemic
Shareholder wealth
Antonios Karatzas
Alessandro Ancarani
Luciano Fratocchi
Cristina Di Stefano
Jan Godsell
When does the manufacturing reshoring strategy create value?
title When does the manufacturing reshoring strategy create value?
title_full When does the manufacturing reshoring strategy create value?
title_fullStr When does the manufacturing reshoring strategy create value?
title_full_unstemmed When does the manufacturing reshoring strategy create value?
title_short When does the manufacturing reshoring strategy create value?
title_sort when does the manufacturing reshoring strategy create value?
topic Manufacturing
Reshoring
Relocation
Event-study
Abnormal returns
Covid-19 pandemic
Shareholder wealth
url https://hdl.handle.net/2134/20457219.v1