Management of an Inter-Firm Network

Om 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.Contents:Strategy for Forming an Inter-Firm Network:From Adam Smith's Division of Labor to Network Organization: From the Market Price Mechanism to the Incentive Price Mechanism (Yasuhiro Monden)South Korean “ Zaibatsu”: An Analysis of Its Historical and Financial Characteristics (Tadashi Hasegawa)Management Control of an Inter-Firm Network:The Importance of Inter-Company SCM in Consolidated Group Companies and Management Accounting (Kazuki Hamada)Profit Allocation Rules to Motivate Inter-Firm Network Partners to Reduce Overall Costs (Yoshiteru Minagawa)The Role of Intangible Assets in Allocating the Inter-Firm Profit of a Global Consolidated Business: International Transfer Pricing (Yasuhiro Monden)Exploratory Research in Cooperative Action for SMEs: The Possibilities of Applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis (Satoshi Arimoto) Performance Measurement of an Inter-Firm Network from the Viewpoint of Reduction of Total Lead Time for Investment Recovery (Shino Hiiragi)The Relationships between a Manufacturing Firm and a Customer Firm: The Situation in Japan (Junya Sakaguchi)Task Control of Production, Sales, Physical Distribution, etc., in an Inter-Firm Network:Green Economies and Green Processes and Their Implications for Supply Chains (Henry Aigbedo)Issue of SCM for Japanese Companies and Their Efforts Toward Green Logistics (Yoshiyuki Nagasaka) Interfirm 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)Organizational Capability of Master Data Management for Inter- Firm Integration (Mohammad Aghdasi and Farzad Movahedi Sobhani)Deployment of Material Flow Cost Accounting in an Inter-Firm Network (Tomonori Inooka)Coordinating Supply Chains by Controlling Capacity Usage Rate in the Japanese Car Industry (Fumiko Kurokawa)Human Capital Strategy of an Inter-Firm Network: Contribution to the Evolution of the Management Accounting System, and Examples Thereof (Noriyuki Imai)Readership: Researchers, academics, undergraduates and graduates in business and management, supply chain/operations management and Asian Studies.