Although an increasing body of research has focused attention on reshoring, namely, a company’s decision to relocate activities back to the home-country, how and when reshoring impacts market responses remains largely understudied and requires specific theoretical and empirical consideration. Our study complements existing research on reshoring by adopting a demand-side perspective. Through multiple, experimental and survey-based studies, conducted in two countries (Italy and the US), we verified that the interplay between Consumer Reshoring Sentiment (CRS) and Consumer Animosity (CA) leads to specific emotional reactions (gratitude and relief) which, in their turn, affect relevant market responses (positive word of mouth, willingness to buy, advocacy behaviors). Our work provides interesting insights for practitioners and international managers evaluating reshoring; they can capitalize on the positive market responses to reshoring by considering both reshoring sentiments characterizing the home-country market and consumer animosity associated with tensions between the countries involved in the reshoring decision.

Consumer Reshoring Sentiment and Animosity: Expanding our understanding of market responses to reshoring / Grappi, Silvia; Romani, Simona; Bagozzi Richard, P.. - In: MIR. MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL REVIEW. - ISSN 0938-8249. - 60:1(2020), pp. 69-95. [10.1007/s11575-019-00399-2]

Consumer Reshoring Sentiment and Animosity: Expanding our understanding of market responses to reshoring

Grappi Silvia
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2020

Abstract

Although an increasing body of research has focused attention on reshoring, namely, a company’s decision to relocate activities back to the home-country, how and when reshoring impacts market responses remains largely understudied and requires specific theoretical and empirical consideration. Our study complements existing research on reshoring by adopting a demand-side perspective. Through multiple, experimental and survey-based studies, conducted in two countries (Italy and the US), we verified that the interplay between Consumer Reshoring Sentiment (CRS) and Consumer Animosity (CA) leads to specific emotional reactions (gratitude and relief) which, in their turn, affect relevant market responses (positive word of mouth, willingness to buy, advocacy behaviors). Our work provides interesting insights for practitioners and international managers evaluating reshoring; they can capitalize on the positive market responses to reshoring by considering both reshoring sentiments characterizing the home-country market and consumer animosity associated with tensions between the countries involved in the reshoring decision.
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Consumer Reshoring Sentiment and Animosity: Expanding our understanding of market responses to reshoring / Grappi, Silvia; Romani, Simona; Bagozzi Richard, P.. - In: MIR. MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL REVIEW. - ISSN 0938-8249. - 60:1(2020), pp. 69-95. [10.1007/s11575-019-00399-2]
Grappi, Silvia; Romani, Simona; Bagozzi Richard, P.
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