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Barbieri, Paolo; Arlbjørn, Jan Stentoft

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“…Globalisation has historically mitigated some of these issues through offshoring and outsourcing to countries with lower labour costs. However, as these lower labour-cost countries gradually became more industrialised, their economies grew, and slowly, their labour costs increased as well -mitigating the cost advantages seen by Western manufacturers from high labour-cost countries in the first place (Barbieri & Stentoft, 2016). Add to that the recent disruptions in supply chains due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the accident causing the Suez Canal blockage, and geopolitical conflicts -such events have only prompted an even more aggressive strategic shift.…”

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Human-Centred Production: The role of competences and learning for industry 4.0

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Andreas grew up in Aalborg, Denmark, where he finished both his Bsc. and Msc. at Aalborg University within Engineering Psychology -a discipline that deals with human-centred solutions, ensuring there are user-friendly systems and interactions with technology in the world. Throughout his master's degree, he spent a semester at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand in 2018, and presented a scientific poster at the IEEE RO-MAN conference in Nanjing, China. He was invited to write his master's thesis at University of Canberra, Australia in 2019 on the topic of human-robot interaction (HRI) and the effect of different settings on the interaction experience. After graduating, his interest in HRI led him into an internship with AAU to become involved in a research project with an interactive drawing robot and a collaboration with Aalborg municipality. Later, Andreas started his PhD in the Materials and Production department at Aalborg University in 2020. Here, his main topic pivoted to the digitalisation of manufacturing companies. However, his interest in human-centred solutions and human-robot interaction persisted as it was evident that these were core challenges in the newfound research field. Through close collaboration with small and medium-sized manufacturing companies within the Innovation Factory North research project, he uncovered human-centred challenges and opportunities for digital transformation. During his PhD, Andreas spent 3,5 months in Reggio Emilia at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where he worked on how to introduce novices to collaborative robots.

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Human-Centred Production: The role of competences and learning for industry 4.0

Hansen

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Do Industry 4.0 Technologies Matter When Companies Backshore Manufacturing Activities? An Explorative Study Comparing Europe and the US

Fratocchi

Stefano

2020

Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning

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Looking Ahead: Part III

Bischi

Kopel

2017

The Economy as a Complex Spatial System

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Abstract. In the past decades, manufacturing firms have increasingly off-shored main activities along their value chain to emerging economies in order to take advantage of lower costs. More recently, however, the trend of re-shoring has gained increasing attention. We argue that more research is needed to fully understand firms' motives for bringing their activities back home. Furthermore, multinational firms need to evaluate their activities along environmental, social and governance dimensions. Research on corporate social responsibility strategies of multinational enterprises and their global value chains is still scarce, however.

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Guest editorial

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

Human-Centred Production: The role of competences and learning for industry 4.0

Human-Centred Production: The role of competences and learning for industry 4.0

Do Industry 4.0 Technologies Matter When Companies Backshore Manufacturing Activities? An Explorative Study Comparing Europe and the US

Looking Ahead: Part III

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