The article concerns the revision of earlier decisions to offshore production activities (so called “relocation of second degree”); more specifically it is focused on the “reshoring” (also referred as “relocation to the home country”, “back-reshoring” or “back-shoring”). The research aims are to investigate what types of mistakes occur along the decision-making and implementation process and how they affect the outcome, in terms of success or failure, of a relocation strategy. A multiple case study involving four companies in the fashion industry from Portugal and Italy was conducted. The cross-case analysis allowed to differentiate decision-making mistakes from implementation ones and to assess differences and similarities among the cases in terms of content of the relocation, drivers and outcomes. The research contributes to previous literature on reshoring by bringing evidence of different types of mistakes to be considered, thus requiring further conceptualization of the reshoring process. Managers and entrepreneurs should consider the importance of doing the things right also during the implementation, too often underestimated. The present article is the first one in the reshoring literature bringing evidence of cases of failure in the relocation decisions and discriminating among different kinds of mistakes.

该条款涉及对海上生产活动的先前决策的修订（所谓的“二级学位迁移”）；更具体地说，它专注于“返乡”（也称为“搬迁到母国”，“返乡”或“返乡”）。该研究的目的是调查在决策和实施过程中会发生什么类型的错误，以及它们如何影响重定位策略的成败。进行了涉及葡萄牙和意大利的四家时装业公司的多案例研究。跨案例分析可以将决策错误与实施错误区分开来，并可以根据搬迁的内容，动因和结果来评估案例之间的异同。该研究通过提供需要考虑的不同类型错误的证据，从而为先前有关重新分配的文献做出了贡献，因此需要对重新分配过程进行进一步的概念化。经理和企业家应该在实施过程中考虑正确做事的重要性，而这一点常常被低估了。本文是返乡文献中的第一篇，提供了搬迁决策失败案例的证据，并区分了各种错误。