Essays about: "Offshoring to China"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words Offshoring to China.

  1. 1. Backshore Once Offshored Manufacturing? : Exploring Sustainability as a Driver for Backshoring Decisions in Sweden

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Valeria Bracamonte Nuñez; [2022]
    Keywords : offshoring; backshoring; sustainability; environmental system analysis tools; environmental decision making; Swedish automotive industry and global steel industry;

    Abstract : This master thesis has been conducted for Hanza Holding AB which is a global company with production facilities grouped into local clusters in proximity to its clients. The company has experienced an increased demand from companies seeking to relocate their production back to their home countries to be closer to their end markets. READ MORE

  3. 2. Challenges of Outsourcing IT to China : A literature review

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för informatik

    Author : Cui Ruiqi; [2017]
    Keywords : IT outsourcing. IT offshoring. outsourcing. China. Challenges.;

    Abstract : IT outsourcing has been studied by many scholars throughout the world in much detail. The People’s Republic of China, as one of the leading IT outsourcing markets in the world, nonetheless, is still considered as a developing market. Not many IT outsourcing studies have set their focus on China. READ MORE

  4. 3. Fostering buyer-supplier relationships An analysis of the supplier perspective in offshoring to China

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Alessandra Castelli; [2016]
    Keywords : Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This papers aims at analysing Chinese suppliers’ expectations of interfirm relationship when Western companies offshore their production to China. The research is motivated by the underrepresentation of the Chinese suppliers’ perspective in the literature and the undisputed role of China as the second most popular destination for offshoring. READ MORE

  5. 4. Managing Transfer Projects in an Offshore Strategy : Swedish and Chinese Perspectives

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för innovation, design och teknik

    Author : Emma Adolfsson; Peder Lindgren; [2015]
    Keywords : Chinese Culture; Knowledge Transfer; Knowledge Management; Transfer Project; Project Management; Offshore;

    Abstract : Offshoring concerns the relocation or a transfer of a company’s business activities to another country. When a company decides to offshore their business to another location it involves the transfer of products and knowledge which are both key activities in transfer projects. READ MORE

  6. 5. Reshoring Manufacturing

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Teknisk logistik

    Author : Pau Alkain Adroer; [2015]
    Keywords : Reshoring; offshoring; outsourcing; insourcing; manufacturing location decision.; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Background: Since the last decades of the twentieth century there have been lots of companies who had moved their production processes from the origin country to another different country because of a lower cost of operations in the new location. These better conditions were due to fewer labor costs, fewer land prices, fewer transport costs and lower taxes, among others. READ MORE