Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore reshoring drivers and barriers from a Swedish manufacturing perspective. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is a case study, including four Swedish manufacturing companies, with focus on drivers and barriers from the context of the Swedish...

Purpose: To survive in a competitive landscape, companies are required to identify, develop and continuously improve upon the operations capabilities that have the greatest impact on the overall competitiveness. This paper aims to evaluate critical operations capabilities for competitive...

Purpose: The existing literature expresses a strong need to develop tools that support the manufacturing reshoring decision-making process. This paper aims to examine the suitability of analytical hierarchy process (AHP)-based tools for initial screening of manufacturing reshoring decisions....

Purpose: This research analyzes the development of logistics outsourcing market in two countries, Estonia and Finland, with different paths as members of the single European market. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the two markets have become more similar or whether their...