Lecturer in Global Operations Strategy at ETH Zurich
Scientific Seminars
Olivier Von Dzengelevski, Lecturer in Global Operations Strategy at ETH Zurich
Séminaire organisé par le Département de gestion des opérations et de la logistique
Ouvert à tous.
Salle : Accra, 1er étage, section jaune, édifice Côte-Sainte-Catherine
Information sur le conférencier :
Oliver serves as a Lecturer in Global Operations Strategy at ETH Zurich, conducting research at the intersection of international operations management and public policy. He earned his PhD in Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich, with a dissertation on international production networks. Prior to this, he studied international relations and corporate finance, completing his master’s degree at the University of Oxford. His current work on crisis resilience and geopolitical risk integrates these diverse academic strands.
Résumé du séminaire :
It is widely assumed that greater domestic production enhances crisis resilience, which increasingly draws the interest of policymakers to reshoring and the expansion of domestic manufacturing. Indeed, greater domestic capacity in critical industries—ranging from pharmaceuticals and defence to strategic materials—can support national crisis management by providing economic self-sufficiency. Yet it remains unclear whether greater reliance on domestic production also improves firms’ resilience. We address this question using a self-curated panel of production footprints covering firms in U.S. critical industries from 2017 to 2024. Specifically, we examine how the relative size of firms’ domestic production footprints affected changes in profitability and risk during and after the global crisis triggered by COVID-19. Our findings suggest that firms with relatively larger domestic production footprints exhibited lower resilience, both in the acute phase of the crisis and its aftermath. This points to a misalignment between firm interest and national interest, requiring the attention of industrial policymakers.
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