Letter from the Editors: Special Issue on Reshoring

Daniel Rottig, Romie Frederick Littrell
2015 AIB Insights  
This ediTion of AIB InsIghts is focussed on the process of reshoring or backshoring. Were we in the concrete construction business we might have encountered these terms related to using forms to support poured concrete structures. The online Merriam-Webster and Cambridge dictionary do not list either term; the Oxford Online Dictionaries does not list backshoring, but it does define reshoring as: The practice of transferring a business operation that was moved overseas back to the country from
more » ... ich it was originally relocated, indicating the term's first use in this context in the early 21 st century.
doi:10.46697/001c.16897 fatcat:hua5b2kh6bg7vka4rtk4zfi2d4