Reshoringdrivkrafter beroende av industrisektorn : En jämförelse mellan fordons- och modeindustrin

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study was to compare how drivers differbetween different industry sectors when a reshoring decisionis being made through answering the research question “whatare the similarities and differences in the drivers for reshoringin the automotive industry and the fashion industry?”. In thiswork, drivers are defined as the factors that have an impacton a company when making a reshoring decision andmotivates them to go through with it.The study was conducted as a structured literature reviewand articles were searched for in three different databases. Thesearches generated a large amount of hits where the majoritywas sorted out with the help of defined inclusion andexclusion criteria until 13 articles remained. Of these 13articles, five were related to the automotive industry and eightwere related to the fashion industry. The used articles were allcase studies that together covered 32 companies.The generated result showed that the drivers could be dividedinto seven main categories: failed offshoring, supply chain,host country, costs, sustainability, the “made-in” effect, andtechnical developments. The two industry sectors mentionedde different drivers a different amount in their motivations asto why they went through with reshoring and described themdifferently. Consequently, the conclusion that drivers forreshoring have similarities and differences in the influencethey have over the reshoring decision and in the way they aredescribed could be drawn. For future research it would beinteresting to continue this kind of comparison with furtherindustry sectors.