Business Process Management (BPM) has emerged as a popular management framework. Based on survey results of Japanese and Korean companies' BPM practices, this book demonstrates how to build BPM as a holistic management model by addressing the importance of BPM views, the effectiveness of its approach, and the research trends.

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.