TY - JOUR
T1 - Coming home and (not) moving in?
T2 - Examining reshoring firms’ subnational location choices in the United States
AU - Rasel, Sharif
AU - Abdulhak, Ismail
AU - Kalfadellis, Paul
AU - Heyden, Mariano L.M.
PY - 2020/5/3
Y1 - 2020/5/3
N2 - The relation between firm characteristics (i.e., size) and domestic location choice (i.e., home state versus other) of reshoring firms, contingent on place (i.e., labour cost, innovation intensity, regulatory incentives) and space (i.e., agglomeration) features of regions is examined. The findings from US manufacturing firms’ reshoring activities from 2008 to 2017 suggest that larger firms are less likely to reshore to their home state. This tendency is strengthened when cost of production in a home state is higher, but offset when states provide higher incentives and have higher levels of agglomeration. Technological innovativeness in the home state did not influence this relation.
AB - The relation between firm characteristics (i.e., size) and domestic location choice (i.e., home state versus other) of reshoring firms, contingent on place (i.e., labour cost, innovation intensity, regulatory incentives) and space (i.e., agglomeration) features of regions is examined. The findings from US manufacturing firms’ reshoring activities from 2008 to 2017 suggest that larger firms are less likely to reshore to their home state. This tendency is strengthened when cost of production in a home state is higher, but offset when states provide higher incentives and have higher levels of agglomeration. Technological innovativeness in the home state did not influence this relation.
KW - economic geography
KW - location choice
KW - manufacturing
KW - reshoring
KW - subnational strategy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074824926&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00343404.2019.1669784
DO - 10.1080/00343404.2019.1669784
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074824926
SN - 0034-3404
VL - 54
SP - 704
EP - 718
JO - Regional Studies
JF - Regional Studies
IS - 5
ER -