Strategy for Forming an Inter-Firm Network: On Forming a Network Organization: From Adam Smith's Division of Labor to Network Organization (Y Monden); Korean “Zaibatsu” (the Holding Company's Business Group): The Historical and Financial Characteristics of Samsung (T Hasegawa); Management Control of an Inter-Firm Network: Supply Chain Management Within the Companies of a Consolidated Business Group (K Hamada); Profit Allocation Rules to Motivate Inter-Firm Network Partners to Reduce Overall Costs (Y Minagawa); The Role of Intangible Assets in Allocating Global Business Profits Using the International Transfer Price (Y Monden); Examination of Management Control in a Network of or Tie-ups Between Smaller Businesses (S Arimoto); Performance Measurement of an Inter-Firm Network from the Viewpoint of the Reduction of the Total Lead Time for Investment Recovery (S Hiiragi); The Relationship Between a Manufacturing Firm and a Customer Firm: The Situation in Japan (J Sakaguchi); Management of an Inter-Firm Network: Supply Chain Perspectives (C H Lee); Task Control of Production, Sales, Physical Distribution, etc., in an Inter-Firm Network: Green Economy and Processes and Implications for Supply Chains (H Aigbedo); The Issue of SCM for Japanese Companies and Their Efforts Toward Green Logistics (Y Nagasaka); Inter-Firm Business Process Management of Companies Specializing in Element Technology: Analysis of a Case of a Horizontal Division Network Created by a Cluster of Small Enterprises in Japan (N Yamaguchi); Organizational Capability of Master Data Management for Inter-Firm Integration (M Aghdassi & F Movahedi); Deployment of Material Flow Costing in an Inter-firm Network (T Inooka); Human Capital Strategy of an Inter-Firm Network (N Imai); Coordinating Supply Chains by Controlling Operating Rates in the Car Industry (F Kurokawa).