Manufacturing internationalization: from distance to proximity? A longitudinal analysis of offshoring choices

Purpose This paper aims to offer a long-term systematic picture of the evolution of manufacturing offshoring (in terms of intensity, geography and drivers) highlighting the changes in the surrounding context and the resulting transitions points (“points in time”) that have shaped its development path. Design/methodology/approach Three statistical tools were adopted on a dataset of 644 cases. First, the authors resorted to multiple structural...