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CONTROLLING COLLABORATION BETWEEN FIRMS
Controlling Collaboration between Firms
How to build and Maintain Successful Relationships with External Partners
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By
Angelo Ditillo, Institute of Accounting, Finance and Control, Universit Bocconi, Milan, Italy
Ariela Caglio, Institute of Accounting, Finance and Control, Universit Bocconi, Milan, Italy

Audience
The book has a practitioner-manager orientation. The main target is represented not only by managers working within the fashion industry but also by managers operating in firms characterized by critical relationships with external partners along the value chain. More specifically, buyers of this book would have the following job titles: CFO, CEO, COO, Controller, Management Accountant, Financial/Business Analyst, IS Manager, Management Consultant, Operations Managers/Directors.

Contents
The formation and management of inter-organizational agreements; Rationales for collaboration; Inter-organizational archetypes. How companies exercise control over their partners without stifling collaboration; Levers for controlling inter-organizational relationships; The choice of what to control; Uses of formal vs. informal control mechanisms; Applying the levers of control to improve performance. The functionalities of accounting and control mechanisms for inter-organizational settings; How accounting acts as a stabilising mechanism of inter-firm relationships; Using accounting information for performance measurement and control of partners; the Total Cost of Ownership to select suppliers effectively; Collaborative Value Chain Analysis to support process improvement initiatives; Open Book Accounting to build trust; Target Costing for inter-organizational cost management and price definition; The contextual variables relevant to design controls and information flows between collaborating firms. How to build and maintain successful inter-organizational relationships in practice; Managerial processes in fashion companies; Forms and features of management control in fashion firms; The design of inter-organizational accounting information systems in fashion firms.

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 218 pages, publication date: SEP-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8131-5
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8131-4
Imprint: CIMA PUBLISHING

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