The impact of distance in an organisation, the decision of re-locating an activity. An analysis with the DHL Connectedness Index and the Cage framework.
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- This thesis was written to achieve my master’s degree in Business Engineering, with an International Business specialisation, at the Louvain School of Management. The subject of this thesis is re-location and the impact of distance on it. By re-location, it means the fact of continuing an activity that had been moved to an offshore country in the past, in the country of origin, or a nearby country. This thesis is composed of three parts. A first part will do a literature review of the subject. Firstly, analysing the concept of distance in international business; and, secondly, describing the re-location phenomenon and its motives. A second part will use a database from the European Reshoring Monitor that gathered information about known cases of reshoring concerning a European country, between January 2015 to December 2018. Profiles of the cases will be drawn regarding their country, size, destination country, etc. but also regarding their motives to re-locate, their type of re-location, and their sensitivity to distance. The analyses will be done using the DHL Connectedness Index and the Cage Framework. Finally, a last part will discuss the findings and will make suggestions for future researches.