Rob Dekkers holds both a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and a doctoral degree, both from Delft University of Technology. He joined the University of the West of Scotland in 2006, having previously been a Senior Lecturer in Industrial Organisation and Management at Delft University of Technology, and, during his time in industry, an internal consultant, a production manager and a senior project manager.

• Prologue.- Industrial Networks of the Future: Review of Research and Practice.- Networks as Complex Adaptive Systems.- Dispersed Network Manufacturing: An Emerging Form of Collaboration Networks.- Self-Similarity and Criticality in Dispersed Manufacturing: A Contribution to Production Networks Control.- Collaborations in Industrial Networks: The Co-Evolutionary Perspective.- Control and Coordination in Industrial Networks.- Designing and Modeling Agile Supply-Demand Networks.- Framework for Developing an Agile Future-Proof Supply Chain.- International Issues of Industrial Networks.- Developing a Worldwide Production Network.- Planning in Companies with Dispersed Capacity.- Managing Product Variety in Multinational Corporation Supply Chains: A Simulation Study Investigating Flow Time.- Set-Up and Operation of Global Engineering Networks Spanning Industrialized and Emerging Economies.- Epilogue.- What Follows.

Rob Dekkers holds both a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and a doctoral degree, both from Delft University of Technology. He joined the University of the West of Scotland in 2006, having previously been a Senior Lecturer in Industrial Organisation and Management at Delft University of Technology, and, during his time in industry, an internal consultant, a production manager and a senior project manager.

• Prologue.- Industrial Networks of the Future: Review of Research and Practice.- Networks as Complex Adaptive Systems.- Dispersed Network Manufacturing: An Emerging Form of Collaboration Networks.- Self-Similarity and Criticality in Dispersed Manufacturing: A Contribution to Production Networks Control.- Collaborations in Industrial Networks: The Co-Evolutionary Perspective.- Control and Coordination in Industrial Networks.- Designing and Modeling Agile Supply-Demand Networks.- Framework for Developing an Agile Future-Proof Supply Chain.- International Issues of Industrial Networks.- Developing a Worldwide Production Network.- Planning in Companies with Dispersed Capacity.- Managing Product Variety in Multinational Corporation Supply Chains: A Simulation Study Investigating Flow Time.- Set-Up and Operation of Global Engineering Networks Spanning Industrialized and Emerging Economies.- Epilogue.- What Follows.

Rob Dekkers holds both a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and a doctoral degree, both from Delft University of Technology. He joined the University of the West of Scotland in 2006, having previously been a Senior Lecturer in Industrial Organisation and Management at Delft University of Technology, and, during his time in industry, an internal consultant, a production manager and a senior project manager.

• Prologue.- Industrial Networks of the Future: Review of Research and Practice.- Networks as Complex Adaptive Systems.- Dispersed Network Manufacturing: An Emerging Form of Collaboration Networks.- Self-Similarity and Criticality in Dispersed Manufacturing: A Contribution to Production Networks Control.- Collaborations in Industrial Networks: The Co-Evolutionary Perspective.- Control and Coordination in Industrial Networks.- Designing and Modeling Agile Supply-Demand Networks.- Framework for Developing an Agile Future-Proof Supply Chain.- International Issues of Industrial Networks.- Developing a Worldwide Production Network.- Planning in Companies with Dispersed Capacity.- Managing Product Variety in Multinational Corporation Supply Chains: A Simulation Study Investigating Flow Time.- Set-Up and Operation of Global Engineering Networks Spanning Industrialized and Emerging Economies.- Epilogue.- What Follows.