Investigating the Role of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult Network in Supporting Reshoring Initiatives in the UK

Hamid Moradlou, Lydia Bals, Steffen Kinkel, Samuel Roscoe

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Abstract

We answer to the question: How do not-for-profit innovation networks facilitate the reshoring of manufacturing? To answer this question, an in-depth case study of the UK’s HVMC network is used. Data was collected from 35 semi-structured interviews with engineers, legal officers, procurement managers and Chief Technology Officers working in the seven centres that comprise the HVMC network. Dunning’s eclectic paradigm is used to examine whether not-for-profit networks can enhance location attractiveness and positively influence re-location decisions. The findings reveal that not-for-profit networks support pre-reshoring/during-reshoring decisions by enhancing market-seeking and efficiency-seeking advantages and during-reshoring/post-reshoring decisions by resource-seeking and strategic asset-seeking advantages.
Original languageEnglish
Publication date2024
Publication statusPublished - 2024
EventThe 31st EurOMA International Annual Conference 2024: Transforming People and Processes for a Better World - ESADE, Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 29 Jun 20243 Jul 2024
Conference number: 31
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ConferenceThe 31st EurOMA International Annual Conference 2024
Number31
LocationESADE
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period29/06/202403/07/2024
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