Companies and territories: Between offshoring and reshoring manufacturing

The economic and financial crisis in 2007-2008 revealed the extent of the deindustrialization era that France has entered. The economic situation and the rise of emerging countries tend to speed up this process for most of the historically industrialized countries in general and for France in particular. This acceleration process seems to lead to deterioration of the employment quality, especially at a regional level (Cedillo-Campos 2004). However, observers have been noticing that several elements are changing the face of the system by favouring the geographic return of the production (Mouhoud 2013). Is it a minor phenomenon or are we dealing with a long-term change of course? What would be the repercussions of relocations on the economy, the line of business and the job pools?