... be contacted at: hamid.moradlou@cranfield.ac.uk 03 08 2020 09 01 2021 05 02 2021 06 02 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Manufacturing location decision Geopolitical disruption Offshoring Reshoring Brexit...

... Product-service systems Emerging markets Offshoring services Offshoring Engineering services Global operations Service outsourcing The trend towards specialisation and outsourcing (Modi et al., 2015) means that services are increasingly provided in inter-organisational networks...

... these affect its management. Design/methodology/approach – The paper builds on the offshoring, capacity expansion and learning curve literature. The existing scholarship often lacks detailed insights into the factors surrounding the globalisation of production, and how constructing and operationalising...

... belief the paper finds that not only the relocation of production to emerging countries, but also the backshoring of once offshored manufacturing capacities to the home base is a relevant phenomenon. Since the emergence of the global economic crisis, relocation activities declined significantly...