Management of an inter-firm network

This book focuses especially on financial and/or managerial accounting aspects of inter-firm network in three phases : (1) strategy for forming the inter-firm network; (2) management control of inter-firm network; and (3) task control of production, sales and logistics of inter-firm network.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: World Scientific (Firm)
Other Authors: Monden, Yasuhiro, 1940-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., c2012.
Series:Japanese management and international studies ; v. 8.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Strategy for forming an inter-firm network. 1. From Adam Smith's division of labor to network organization : from the market price mechanism to the incentive price mechanism / Yasuhiro Monden. 2. South Korean "Zaibatsu" : an analysis of its historical and financial characteristics / Tadashi Hasegawa
  • pt. 2. Management control of an inter-firm network. 3. The importance of inter-company SCM in consolidated group companies and management accounting / Kazuki Hamada. 4. Profit allocation rules to motivate inter-firm network partners to reduce overall costs / Yoshiteru Minagawa. 5. The role of intangible assets in allocating the inter-firm profit of a global consolidated business : international transfer pricing / Yasuhiro Monden. 6. Exploratory research in cooperative action for SMEs : the possibilities of applying qualitative comparative analysis / Satoshi Arimoto. 7. Performance measurement of an inter-firm network from the viewpoint of reduction of total lead time for investment recovery / Shino Hiiragi. 8. The relationships between a manufacturing firm and a customer firm : the situation in Japan / Junya Sakaguchi
  • pt. 3. Task control of production, sales and physical distribution in an inter-firm network. 9. Green economies and green processes, and their implications for supply chains / Henry Aigbedo. 10. Issue of SCM for Japanese companies and their efforts toward green logistics / Yoshiyuki Nagasaka. 11. Inter-firm business process management of companies specializing in element technology : analysis of a horizontal division network created by a cluster of small enterprises in Japan / Naoya Yamaguchi. 12. Organizational capability of master data management for inter-firm integration / Mohammad Aghdassi and Farzad Movahedi Sobhani. 13. Deployment of material flow cost accounting in an inter-firm network / Tomonori Inooka. 14. Coordinating supply chains by controlling capacity usage rate in the Japanese car industry / Fumiko Kurokawa. 15. Human capital strategy of an inter-firm network : contribution to the evolution of the management accounting system, and examples thereof / Noriyuki Imai.