Relocation of Production within EU - Through Swedish Companies' Perspective

Sammanfattning: In today’s world where one has to be efficient in every way to stay as an actor on the market, companies have to make choices to be competitive. By moving the production abroad the companies can often reduce their cost of production and remain competitive. We found it to be an interesting phenomenon that established Swedish companies are increasingly moving their core production abroad, mainly to low cost countries, here after referred by us as relocation of production. The idea behind our topic, relocation of production, came from the increased attention of the subject in the media lately.