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How to build and Maintain Successful Relationships with External Partners
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By
Angelo Ditillo, Institute of Accounting, Finance and Control, Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy
Ariela Caglio, Institute of Accounting, Finance and Control, Università 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.
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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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