Kein Ende globalisierter Wertschöpfung: Warum Erwartungen an eine Rückverlagerung der Fertigung sich nicht erfüllen werden

Florian Butollo

doi:10.32387/prokla.v50i198.1855

Authors

Florian Butollo Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v50i198.1855

Keywords:

Reshoring, global division of labour, advanced manufacturing, employment, digitalization, industry 4.0, globalization, digitisation

Abstract

This contribution challenges the “reshoring” thesis, according to which the digitalisation of industrial production will result in a return of those sectors that had been offshored due to cost reasons in the last decades. Whereas digitalisation does reinforce processes of a regionalisation of manufacturing that gives firms the possibility to react quickly to specific demand from its target markets, the reshoring thesis omits that digitalisation also supports tendencies of a growing geographical fragmentation, in particular through the sophistication of logistics and e-commerce platforms. Rather than a unilateral process of reshoring, we are therefore observing sector-specific reconfigurations of the global and the local in global production networks.

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