Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Accounting in networks as a new research field / Håkan Håkansson, Kalle Kraus, and Johnny Lind -- Accounting and inter-organisational issues / David Ford and Håkan Håkansson -- Inter-organisational accounting in dyadic settings / John Cullen and Juliana Meira -- Towards accounting in network settings / Johnny Lind and Sof Thrane -- The role of management accounting in joint venture relationships : a dynamic perspective / Jeltje van der Meer-Kooistra and Pieter E. Kamminga -- Accounting in inter-organisational relationships within the public sector / Kalle Kraus and Cecilia Lindholm -- Customer accounting when relationships and networks matter / Mikael Cèaker and Torkel Strèomsten -- Target costing in inter-organisational relationships and networks / Martin Carlsson-Wall and Kalle Kraus -- Open-book accounting in networks / Peter Kajèuter and Harri I. Kulmala -- Accounting in networks : the transaction cost economics perspective / Shannon Anderson and Henri Dekker -- Accounting in networks : the industrial-network approach / Håkan Håkansson ... [et al.] -- Actor-network theory and the study of inter-organisational network-relations / Jan Mouritsen, Habib Mahama, and Wai Fong Chua -- Accounting in inter-organisational relationships : the institutional theory perspective / Robert W. Scapens and Evangelia Varoutsa -- Accounting in networks : the next step / Håkan Håkansson, Kalle Kraus, and Johnny Lind.

Offers information about management accounting research, and examines the implications of network relations and the multiplicity of accounting roles therein.