This book examines key aspects of the increasingly important phenomenon of reshoring - the decision of companies to reverse offshoring by bringing manufacturing back from overseas. The aim is to equip readers with a full understanding of the current extent of reshoring, its drivers, and the...

How did Japanese companies, technology-supporting organizations, and governments reformulate organizational strategies, industrial structures, and institutions to revive Japanese high-tech industries in the 1990s? This book takes a comprehensive look at this question by integrating the fields of...

Sustainability imposes an unprecedented challenge on society and has become the driving force of an urgent search for innovative solutions in all branches of economy. Manufacturing plays a key role in many areas of human living, and it is both part of the problem and of the solution. This book...

This book analyzes of the surplus of production capacity in China. According to a government statement, there is a serious surplus of productive capacity in the steel, cement, glass, aluminum, and shipbuilding industries. There was no surplus of productive capacity in above industries between...

This book assesses the state of international manufacturing strategy and clarifies how recent developments, for example regarding configuration, technology, and the environment, are impacting on its content and direction and on its relationship to manufacturing performance. In providing...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of sustainability and management in India and through its insightful essays highlights the complex and multifaceted nature of sustainability as a concept. It also demonstrates the debates surrounding the concept of sustainability and its ramifications...

Die Beitragsautoren dieses Sammelbandes erforschen, diskutieren und validieren den Einsatz zukunftsorientierter Produktionsmethoden zur Gestaltung nachhaltiger Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke. Vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender globaler Umweltrisiken und sozialer Disparitäten ist die Konzeption...

This book investigates the existence of stochastic and deterministic convergence of real output per worker and the sources of output (physical capital per worker, human capital per worker, total factor productivity -TFP- and average annual hours worked) in 21 OECD countries over the period...

Part I: Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Based on Ubiquitous Information. Overview -- The Features of Information Manufacturing Systems Based on Ubiquitous Perception -- Key Technologies. Part II: Environment Friendly Green Manufacturing. Overview -- Field Features -- Development Objectives and...

Enterprises have to react instantly to changing market conditions and disturbances that occur during execution of value creation processes. Depending upon the processes’ context, the goal is to significantly reduce lead times, reaction times, and time-to-market, among others. The vision of a...